Abstract
This article examines the treatment of religion, politics and football in Robin Jenkins's 1954 novel, The Thistle and the Grail, which traces the fortunes of a fictional football club as it pursues its grail, namely the Scottish Junior Cup. In addition to exploring how the central themes emerge and are dealt with in the text, the article represents an attempt to position the researcher as an archival resource. To that end, it draws upon personal experiences and recollections together with other written sources that have influenced my reading or, to borrow from Michel de Certeau, my ‘renting’ of the novel. As a consequence, the article seeks to shed light not only on Jenkins's tale but also on the influence of memory on our responses to products of the literary imagination.
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