CLYDE are on the verge of making a return to Glasgow after 21 years at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld and almost 30 away from their spiritual home of Shawfield.
An EGM on Monday night in Rutherglen, the town which was their home for over 100 years, will hope to determine where they will play their football in the future, with Greenfield Park, the home of Shettleston Juniors in the east end of Glasgow, for the the moment the favourite choice of the League Two club.
Previous potential moves to East Kilbride and Glencairn Juniors have been shelved, but it does seem as if one of the oldest teams in Scottish football, they were founded in 1877, are heading home.
Any switch would come a year from now but as the relationship between North Lanarkshire Council, who own Broadwood, and the club have deteriorated to some extent, the Cumbernauld experiment is coming to an end.
Clyde, who are managed by former Rangers and Scotland captain Barry Ferguson, left Shawfield in 1986 and had to groundshare with rivals Partick Thistle for five seasons, then moved on to Hamilton Academical's Douglas Park for a further three years, before relocating apparently permanently to Broadwood.
John Alexander, the club chairman, confirmed that change was probably one the way but also insisted that this move was not in the pipeline because the club's future was in any way under threat.
"It is essential that the club has the ability to operate in a sustainable manner where it has autonomy to operate a commercial business model that begins to compete with other clubs in our league," said Alexander.
For many, the club lost its soul when they decided to relocate. Clyde supporters have for some time spoken about going back to the area where the club where born and lived until they opted to move from Shawfield almost 30 years ago.
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