2 Dec 2009Partick Thistle invite students to Firhill

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Partick Thistle is helping international students to get acquainted with Glasgow life through football.

The Scottish First Division club has invited a group of 152 students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) to this weekend's home game against Dundee, the BBC reports.

Vice principal of the RSAMD professor Maggie Kinloch said the match should provide overseas scholars with an opportunity to experience an important part of the city's culture.

The students will be joined in the stands at Firhill by ten members of staff.

Allan Cowan, chairman of Partick Thistle, commented: "We have always had the reputation of being a club with more than our fair share of fans from the world of showbusiness.

"Perhaps some of the students who attend the match on Saturday (December 5th) will become ardent Jags fans."

Robert Carlyle, the Glasgow-born star of Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's Ashes, is known to be a Partick Thistle supporter.

Written by Tom Jenkins

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