Editing Partick (section)

==Sport==
[[File:England v scotland 1872 ad.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for the first ever international football match]]
Partick is home to the [[West of Scotland Cricket Club]]'s [[Hamilton Crescent]] ground, which was the site of the [[1872 Scotland v England football match|first ever international football match]] (between [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] and [[England national football team|England]]) on 30 November 1872.<ref name="BBC article">{{cite news |title=The first international football match |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0012/index.shtml |publisher=[[bbc.co.uk]] |author=Paul Mitchell |author-link=Paul Mitchell (broadcaster) |access-date=23 September 2007 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218113954/https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0012/index.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Partick Thistle F.C.|Partick Thistle Football Club]] were formed in the area in 1876, but left to play in the [[Maryhill]] area of Glasgow in 1909.<ref>[http://ptearlyyears.net/introduction Introduction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120034340/http://ptearlyyears.net/introduction |date=20 November 2011 }}, Partick Thistle: The Early Years. Retrieved 22 December 2011.</ref> [[Partick F.C. (1875)|Partick]] F.C. were also active in the 1870s and 1880s.