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Glasgow Times
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Wet Wet Wet star calls on fans to get behind Clydebank FC
Graeme Clark, who plays bass in Wet Wet Wet, has backed Clydebank FC's season ticket campaign. The musician, who grew up in the area, opened up on watching the Holm Park side as a youngster and praised club legends such as Davie Cooper and Jim Fallon. READ MORE: Clydebank boss reveals reason behind pre-season schedule Graeme Clark, left, plays bass in Wet Wet Wet (Image: Supplied) Gordon Moffat's men achieved promotion to the Lowland League last season after an amazing campaign and Clark has called on residents to "support their local team". He said: "When I was a kid, I went regularly to watch the Bankies. They had a fantastic team from Davie Cooper to all the unsung heroes like Jim Fallon and Jim Gallagher, I loved those days. "So full of hope and made me recognise how important it is to have a good team around you. "It's fantastic to see this team bringing the same hope and playing with their heart and soul. "As a football fan that is all you can ask for. Calling all Bankies, since my home team have made the step up, it's important to support your local (or even not so local team). "In this world, we need all the support we can get, so if you like watching good football, get yourself a season ticket and support the Bankies."
Daily Record
01-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
Clydebank FC fan given year to live defies the odds to see team win league for first time in 20 years
Stephen Maxwell received the devastating news in 2023 just months after being diagnosed with the skin cancer melanoma. A cancer -stricken football fan told was he only had a year to live has defied the odds - and has now seen his team win the league for the first time in more than two decades. Stephen Maxwell received the devastating news in 2023 just months after being diagnosed with the skin cancer melanoma. Some 18 months later the 58-year-old was on cloud nine as he saw his beloved Clydebank FC lift the West of Scotland Premier Division cup at Holm Park on Saturday. Despite his diagnosis and undergoing treatment, he never missed a single Bankies game in the past year. He said: "It's the only thing I haven't missed out on. I've gone to every game because it's only down the road from me. "We won the league this year for the first time in 21 years. It was brilliant. That was my Saturday outing, down to watch the Bankies. "At the beginning of the season, we started off good, but I thought 'I'm not going to be here at the end'. "I made it and it was absolutely amazing. I got the match ball signed from the first game between Drumchapel and Clydebank in the league." The Duntocher resident discovered he had skin cancer in 2021 after his mum found a lump which looked a bit like a mole on his back. He was initially told by a doctor that it was benign. But the lump grew over the next two and a half years, eventually bursting and forcing Stephen to have it checked again. Shortly after arriving at his GP, he was rushed to West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital at Yorkhill before undergoing immediate surgery to remove the tumour, which was said to be 'the size of his fist'. Stephen said: "I was sent to a specialist in Glasgow in 2021, and he took one look at it and said, 'it's benign, it'll fall off'. "I left it at that, but as time went on, it got bigger and bigger and burst a couple of times. The very last time it burst, I had to phone my brother to come down. "I was sent to the hospital at Yorkhill, and the doctor immediately phoned the surgeon. It took two and a half hours. "The tumour was the size of my hand and I thought 'my god this is worse than I thought'. "They only took the tumour out, the cancer was still there, and I needed more operations. "I underwent immunotherapy, and within three months, I was told it had not worked and it had spread to my bones. "I was basically put out to pasture. I was told I had six to twelve months to live, it was devastating. "It just knocked me off my feet." After this appointment, Stephen said he began to 'sort out his affairs'. But he would get a phone call in Spring 2024 from a doctor at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre that would change his life. Stephen added: "I came home and got my affairs in order. That was it, and I just lay in my bed. Then I got a call from Doctor Tan at the Beatson. "She said I'd been accepted for this new trial, would I like to come the next day and get the medication? "I thought, 'brilliant, of course I will'. I had been booked to go into a hospice just days later. "After getting the stuff, I went to my bed and I literally bounced out of bed in the morning. "I was put on a drug called Opdualag as well as steroids, and I just had the best six months of my life after that. "I did everything I wanted to do. I had a great summer, and in the winter I said cheerio to all my friends at the clubs I go to. "I thought that was me, this was it. That was when they'd said I was going to die, but then I didn't die. I'm still on steroids now, and I've started to go back to some of my wee clubs. "I was the first person in Scotland to be put on that trial, and the greatest thing about it was that most people were only getting three or four months before they had to come off it, whereas I got eight months. "I can't complain. The cancer is still in my bones but hasn't spread anywhere else." Melanoma Focus, a charity that funds research into treatments and causes of the illness, say that the rates of this form of skin cancer are climbing in the UK, with around 17,500 new cases every year. Melanoma is considered the most serious form of skin cancer as it reportedly has the highest mortality rate.
