Brown <45
Thomson 71
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: H Humphreys (Greenock)
Matchday: Friday
Match Trivia
Anyone who wasn’t at Shawfield last night and thinks that Rangers lay down to Clyde can disabuse their minds of the idea. At times the players tore at one another like tigers, and when the Shawfield fellows were leading the heavier Ibrox men did not spare themselves. Clyde thoroughly deserved to win, because of their greater penetration. I will say this, however, that if Rangers had been granted a penalty kick early in the second half when Craig was brought down, and they had scored, the whole thing might have been changed. For a time, the play swung as a pendulum. Now Rangers would be attacking, then Clyde. At the end of twenty-eight minutes, however Gallacher was left with an open goal, but missed the ball. Craig missed a chance by delaying. Johnston got a knock which necessitated his retiral, and it was during his absence Clyde opened the scoring. Ten minutes after Gallacher’s ‘bloomer’ lovely play on the Shawfield right ended with Thomson placing the ball in front of goal. Brown took it as it came, and on the turn scored a bonny goal. Then Thomson and Manderson collided, and Thomson was carried off. After the turn round all the players were on the field and Clyde still led by that Brown point. Their goal underwent tremendous pressure during the opening stages, and Cairns went through alone to loft the ball across. Shingleton was beaten, but there was no one there to do the needful, and McInally got there in time. Then there came that time went Craig appeared to be brought down and having been left off the Clyde forwards set to work again. Brown led the way, and when twenty-six minutes had gone, he tapped a ball sent through. He immediately nipped it out to Thomson, and the outside right, with a fast high shot, beat Robb. It was a wonderful goal. When the half-hour had gone Brown got Clyde’s third, and here Robb may have had a chance. The centre shot from outside the penalty area, and the ball went low. Robb threw himself, but he was beaten. The ball may have bounced over his arm. There was only eight minutes to go when Craig scored for Rangers, and although the League champions fought for more they couldn’t get through. It is a reflection on the Ibrox forwards that Shingleton had not so much dangerous stuff to deal with as Robb. Yet all the shooting, practically speaking, ended in goals. I thought Reid and Frame shared the honours, although little in it between the four backs. Clyde’s halfs were best. Rae forced the game splendidly, and tackled Morton and Cairns relentlessly, asking for no quarter and giving none. Gibson did well, particularly in the second half, and McInally slipped many fine passes forward. Dixon was easily the outstanding Ibrox man, but the line was weakened by Johnston’s injury. Brown was the nippiest forward of the ten, and while the Shawfield attack did not move with the method which characterised the Ibrox attack at times, they were always more dangerous. They played just as they ought to have done with so much at stake. Ten thousand people were present. This was history repeated to a certain extent. On the last League day of season 1921-22 the Rangers went to Shawfield requiring to defeat Clyde to win the Championship. The match was goalless, and the Championship went to Celtic.
