St Mirren Football Club

Helen Mirren is a wonderful actress but I didn’t know she had been made a Saint. I guess she was more wonderful than I thought. And now she even has a footy team named after her. Does she even like footy?
First-​Hand Experience: I’ve seen St. Mirren play live once, but only away from their home stadium. They were at Celtic Park, and even though they got completely destroyed, they carried on fighting until the final whistle and I always respected them for that. Seeing a team play live in person always gives you a better perspective on who they are and this is a team that the fans can be proud of, that has always punched above their tiny weight for the famous and storied suburb (sorry, city) of Paisley.
Paisley is one of the great underrated cities of the UK because it’s actually sort of part of Glasgow, but it’s really a city unto itself (think Brooklyn or Queens in NYC), and they have their own footy team as well, who are actually doing well at the moment up in the Premier League.
St. Mirren can only attract 8k to their nice new stadium but the fans are passionate and loyal and will always keep coming.
They were founded in 1877 and are the last Scottish team I’m reviewing. They play in tiny black and white stripes, whereas their away kit is a more appealing yellow.
They have never won the Scottish League, but they did manage to win the Scottish Cup in 1926, 1959, and as recently as 1987 which is a great history for such a small suburban club.
They also won the League Cup in 2013, their only victory in it, which really sent the fans into reverie.

great stadium family friendly and its a good up grade from the old stadium and great for all the fans

This is a terrible new meccano style ground. The only redeeming fixtures are a close train station, free car park and wide selection of food on offer.
No pub within a 20 minute walk and a poor atmosphere in the ground give this place a soulless feel.

The 8,000 capacity St Mirren Park is the brand spanking new football stadium of St Mirren FC, which took over from the Scottish Premier League club’s old Love Street stadium in early 2009, making it only just over a year old at the time of writing. Strangely its capacity is slightly less than that of Love Street, which was 10,000, but at least this makes for less empty seats on matchdays, when it is only ever near full when the Old Firm come to visit.
St Mirren Park is an all-​seater with just one tier in each stand, which at least makes it less of a trek to get to your seat, especially for elderly fans. The fact that the entrances to the seats are at the bottom of the stands also makes the ground very accessible to disabled supporters.
The toilets seem large enough and at least have working sinks with handwash, unlike a lot of Scottish stadiums. The food prices aren’t too expensive either compared to most others and there is a good choice of both hot and cold snacks, including hot dogs (not available at many grounds), though the rolls are very dry and crumbly.
The tannoy announcements in the ground are unfortunately very quiet. Worse still, there is no scoreboard — it gets very annoying having to keep checking your watch and guesstimate the amount of minutes remaining to be played.
I have not actually driven to St Mirren Park, though there seems to be good parking facilities outside, including some side streets which are free to use. Paisley St James station is only a stone’s throw away too, slightly making up for the ground’s isolated location out of Paisley town centre, which ineveitably means there is no nearby pub either — never a good thing in my book.