Buchanan 35
A Venters pen 58
Kyle pen 70
Fiddes 88
Buchanan <105
Missed Penalties
A Venters pen miss 114
Match Information
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: M.C. Hutton (Glasgow)
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
They wont forget the replay of the first round Glasgow Cup game at Ibrox. The result loos queer but its isnt half as surprising as some of the things that led up to it. There was the mystery of the penalty kick by which Rangers equalised for the first time. I have a story about it. And there was that tense moment four minutes from the end of the extra time when Rangers got a penalty for handling. Mansour, who was a prince of goalkeepers last night, saved the first shot from Venters and scraped the return away to safety. There was the doubt about the sensationally late Fiddes got two minutes from the end of the normal period. And there was the first-hand evidence that this was the pluckiest team that ever pulled on a Queens Park jersey. You are getting no excuses for Rangers from me. They were beaten by a more purposeful team. A team that looked trained to play for hours. A team with a punch. Queens had so many heroes there arent crowns enough for all of them. Johnstone, playing his first big-time game at centre-half, was a terrific success. Mansour was phenomenal and the backs risked everything, feared nothing, and won. Cross was a mighty man. Hunter, Kyle and Buchanan battered uncreasingly at Rangers defence. These three have never been better. Rangers will want to forget this. But I cant forget how Rangers were made to appear so ordinary when they faced that Queens goalmouth. Im afraid Jimmy Simpson is slipping. Venters was the only man who looked capable of doing something that might put Rangers on the right road. First half was the story of two centre-halfs a personal triumph for ACM Johnstone, the tall bob Gillespie-like centre-half from Hampden, who was making his first team bow, and something of a personal tragedy for Jimmy Simpson. It had been mostly all Rangers but they could not work a way through that Queens defence lorded by the strapping Johnstone. Eventually Rangers did pot at goal, but Mansour was getting and clutching the ball. And then that thirty-fourth minute . . . a minute big Jimmy Simpson will want to forget. Just for a most welcome change Queens attacked. Brown got busy on the left and whipped the ball over Shaws head. Mitchell, the Queens outside right, retrieved it. Simpson was there but allowed Hunter to get on the ball and the blond centre-forward cheekily and cleverly shoved the ball through Simpsons legs. Buchanan grabbed it and rushed it to the net. That, mind you, after all that between-you-and-me work by Rangers. Rangers got steam up again, but that Queens defence was made of iron. Rangers ran up just on the start of the second half, but they were made run down again. Queens backs were kicking with everything, and Cross, their right-half, was playing the game of his life. Rangers were playing a game that was all right up to the 18 yards line, and after that completely wrong. On the occasions they did give the ball any boot Mansour was there. Fourteen minutes after the interval Rangers equalised from a penalty. It was a mysterious business. Thornton trailed the ball in. Mansour came out and the ball was cleared. The whistle went a penalty. Search me. I cant tell you why and I saw nothing wrong. It was just an ordinary goal-mouth incident that will become an extraordinary story because of that penalty. It isnt often a Queens Park team gets all hot and bothered about a decision. These Hampden boys were hot and bothered, and they protested in vain. Venters scored from the spot. Queens switched their front line, Kyle leading, and McPhail was at inside right now for Rangers. Then another penalty. Hunter was going through when Simpson and Shaw closed in on him. This was more like a penalty, and the trusty boot of Joe Kyle smacked the ball home from the spot. There was a amazing and dramatic finish of the second half, with Queens right on top banging at Dawson. Dougie Gray kicking clear on the goal line and the home supporters filtering, sad-eyed, along the terracings and out of the ground. And there a very heroic figure supporting himself against a goal post. This was Mansour. Injured when he went down for the ball at the mysterious penalty incident, he struggled on though obviously in pain. One time with play at the other end and nobody near him, he fell faint on the ground. And then two minutes from time Fiddes equalised. The ball came from the left. Johnstone appeared to be jostled by a Ranger as he went for the ball and Fiddes lashed it home. And so, to the extra time. Five minutes after the start of the extra time there was another sensation when Buchanan gave Queens the lead. Kyle sent the ball over, Dawson and Simpson got mixed up and fell, the ball ran to the left and Buchanan netted.
