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Lanarkshire football fans vote for the top talent
We asked fans from across ss Lanarkshire to vote for the best est players from the past decade de from our local sides. Here is how ow you voted:
In his first season he broke John hn Ruddy’s clean sheet record of 15 and nd reached the Scottish Cup final in 2011. 11. He was a between the sticks as Well made ade their Champions League debut.
An absolute stalwart at Motherwell, ell, played for them between 1999-06, moved ved to Southend for two years and back k to Fir Park in 2008 where he stayed for the next 10 years.
From playing Celtic in the Scottish ish Cup, surpassing Ajax’s world record for consecutive wins and winning the league gue in 2017, to play-off pain in Cowdenbeath, ath, a final day collapse in the 2018 league gue campaign and the Cove Rangers play-off off exit - it has been a proverbial rollercoaster ter for the full-back at East Kilbride.
In his second spell at Airdrie Crighton on has earned over 100 appearances for the club and is current Diamonds captain. n.
McLaughlin stayed with Accies until ntil 2012, making more than 190 appearances, ces, and he was part of the team that won the First Division title in 2007-08. He would uld then return to the Bully Wee and push ush for League Two play-off promotion in the 2015-16 season.
After helping Motherwell to a 3-1 win against Rangers at Ibrox he would score ore in the 3-0 win in Lanarkshire to secure ure safety.
Widely recognised by Accies fans as the player who kept them in the Premiership hip in season 2017-18, he scored nine goals als in 30 appearances, including in a 2-0 win over former club Rangers at Ibrox.
Having been the first player inducted ted into the Albion Rovers Hall of Fame, he enjoyed three spells at Cliftonhill scored red 60 goals in the process. With a League gue Two promotion under his belt, Chaplain ain is probably best remembered for his hattrick atrie. in the 7-2 two demolition of Airdrie.
James broke into the Hamilton Accies ies first-team under Billy Reid in 2005, aged ged 18. He moved to Wigan, with McArthur hur moving in 2010, and they both won the he 2013 FA Cup with a shock 1-0 win over ver Man City.
He was the key man who helped the side reach the final of the League Cup. up. His lob at Hampden against Rangers ers cemented him as a fan favourite.
First catching the eye at Cliftonhill, McNeil would become a prolific poacher for Kilby on his way to winning two Lowland league titles at K-Park.
In 2017/18 scored more than 20 goals. Currently captain at Caledonian Braves.
There was some close calls. Here is the players who were just a couple of percent away from making the starting eleven.
A two-time Lowland League winner with East Kilbride, it’s been a decade to remember for the 30-year-old keeper.
Starting the decade at Clyde, it has been a huge decade for the defender ending in Scotland caps and top flight football.
Having started the decade at the Diamonds, Alan Trouten would make his mark on
Lanarkshire at Cliftonhill in the 20172017-18 -18 season season. The The34 34-year-old year old netted 28 times. tim mesmes.
Part of the 2013-14 promotion-winning ing team, Crawford scored a winner at Celtic Park in October 2014 and earned ned Hamilton a draw at Ibrox in 2016.
Beginning his career at the national stadium stad just outside Rutherglen in th the 2012-13 season, Shankland has hasw went on to establish himself as one of the th best goalscorers in the country. Wen Went on top be capped for Scotland.