With the club in administration, the United Clydebank Supporters Group tried to buy it but lost out to a Lanarkshire consortium.
The new owners relocated the now Second Division club to the home of the liquidated Airdrieonians and changed its name to Airdrie United to preserve their own place in the senior leagues.
”You always think it’s not going to happen,” McGibbon tells BBC Scotland. “Right up until the last minute, we’d always believed it would go our way and we would do something spectacular.
“When the realisation came that it wouldn’t happen, it was devastating.”
All that Airdrie left was the name and the badge and the fans. Fans with big dreams.
”Very quickly, a group of people got involved and said, ‘how do we start a football club? How do we start from the bottom and work our way back again’,” McGibbon recalls.
The next season, Clydebank FC were playing in the Scottish Football Supporters League.
”From day one, our fans had great aspirations and it was a case of how quickly can we get back to the league,” McGibbon says. “Not having any idea what that road was going to be like, but let’s start by kicking a ball on a Saturday.”
A couple of decades later, she is chair and treasurer of the fan-owned Clydebank.
”We did it that way because there was no option,” McGibbon explains. “There was no sugar daddy out there plying us with money.
“We had a name, we had a badge and a bunch of passionate people who wanted to see a football club back in their town.”
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