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2007-08 East of Scotland League Cup winners?


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I know this is a bit out of left field but I'm sure it can be confirmed who won the 2007-08 EoS League Cup? The choices seem to be The Spartans or Whitehill Welfare.

Wikipedia credits both as winners on the individual club pages. Spartans own website doesn't include it but a list provided in a tweet credits Spartans as the winner. Then the Scottish Football Historical Archive has Whitehill Weldare as the winner.

We'll start with the trustworthy source Wikipedia:

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The reference mark in The Spartans wikipedia for 2010-11 actually links to a tweet by Edinburgh United that links to a list of all(?) finals up to that point. That says that Spartans won 1-0 over Whitehill Welfare

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Whitehill Welfare's website doesn't have a list of honours, but The Spartans do and they do not include it.

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Then we've got @sfha's website and in the table page it credits Whitehill Welfare as the winner http://sfha.org.uk/eosltables.pdf

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7 minutes ago, gogsy said:

Scottish Non League Review for 2007/8 has the League cup (Sectional) final as 17th May at Preston Athletic  result Spartans 1-0 Whitehill Welfare. According to Scottish |Non League Review Spartans were up to their usual sneaky tricks and had played an ineligible player so Whitehill were awarded cup.

That'll explain it! Wherever Edinburgh United sourced that list seems relatively "official" but only lists the finals. Without the context of the ineligible player and awarding, people think they got to keep it  :)

Thanks!

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As noted they brought on Kenny Young who'd played for Edinburgh City earlier in the competition and was cup-tied.

In those days the groupstage was still part of the EOS League Cup proper - not the seperate EOS Qualifying League (courtesy which you could play triallists and couldn't get cup-tied).

This was part of Spartans historic attempt to commit every possible eligiblity offence in a single decade. Don't think they managed "fielding a triallist last registered abroad" tbf.
 

* on 17 May 2008 Spartans won the EOS League Cup Final by 1-0 over Whitehill Welfare. However, they'd brought on sub Kenny Young, who had played 4 ties for Edinburgh City earlier in the competition and therefore was cup-tied. Spartans lost the title with Whitehill were declared winners in their stead. - http://www.scotsman.com/sport/spartans-risk-being-stripped-of-cup-after-fielding-young-1-1259729

* on 6 Dec 2008 Elgin beat Spartans in the Scottish Cup but got in trouble as one of their players, in fact their goalkeeper, had signed after the date of the original attempt at the tie. Which had been postponed. It was then discovered that Spartans player Dean Hoskins wasn't registered for them - as I recall he'd been sent out to their Amateur team to recover from an injury and hadn't been re-registered for the Senior team and therefore was ineligible. Tie was annulled and ordered replayed. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/7773110.stm

* on 22 Oct 2011 Spartans beat Culter 2-0 in the Scottish Cup. However, they played Keith McLeod, over whom there was some error on his form which had been rejected. He had actually been playing the whole season unregistered - technically a triallist - and was therefore ineligible. Spartans expelled, Culter reinstated and put through. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/15466092

* they were also expelled from the South Challenge Cup and thus Lothian Thistle, whom Spartans beat 3-2 in R2 with McLeod featuring, were reinstated and put through. Thankfully for them they lost no league points as there was no limit on triallist appearances in those days - otherwise they'd have lost a slew.

* on 2 May 2015 Spartans beat Preston 4-0 in the Lowland League Cup Ko R1 but had listed Mark Cairns who wasn't registered and therefore was ineligible. Spartans expelled, Preston reinstated and put through. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32603123

* early in 2015-16 season they fielded a goalkeeper - think it was Ross Gilpin - against Civil Service Strollers in the EOS League early in the season. He still had an unspent totting-up ban outstanding and therefore was suspended. They were deducted 3pts.

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The Spartans also benefitted on occasion from pointing out other teams indiscretions (never City. We had a good admin)

Which was their right to do so but let's just say there was always a little bit of schadenfreude among other clubs when they fell down

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