Killie 150 - Adolf Hitler - His Part In Kilmarnock's Downfall: 1939-1952

The outbreak of war in 1939 saw the official Scottish League programme suspended and at the end of the first wartime season Rugby Park was requisitioned by the military. The enforced five-years shutdown hit Killie hard and after the official restart in 1946-47 they lost their top division place of almost half a century's standing. The next few seasons were truly bleak, perhaps the lowest in the club's history, challenged only by the late 1980s for the dubious honour.

CORRECTIONS

Regarding the match away to Queen's Park on January 14th 1950 I wrote "the attendance of 27,205 was, and still is, a record for a non-Division One/Premier League match." It no longer is. Rangers' presence in the lower echelons between 2012-2016 ensured the long-held record would vanish (as also incidentally did the Scottish third tier attendance record set by Killie v Cowdenbeath in 1990).

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