T Cairns
Nicholson
Match Information
Attendance: 20000
Referee:
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
It’s some fellow those Scots. They are just about to surpass the Czechoslovaks from Slavia when it comes to playing raw and hard. And we haven’t seen a game as brutal as the one that was played yesterday in the Sports Park here at home. Glasgow Rangers had been informed that yesterday they would be playing against a very strong team, out national team, probably therefore they have pit everything into winning, but you don’t win a football match with those tactics used, Mr from Glasgow Rangers. The Scots’ game was so bad, the match should have been called off immediately, but hopefully the Danish clubs will spare us for the future to see Glasgow Rangers on a Danish football ground. It all began rather peacefully, and the 18,000 people who were present applauded both the Scots and the Danes when something good was done. The Danish team had gone through a slight chance, as Blicher and Rohde have retired and been supplemented by Viggo Jorgensen and Vilh Jorgensen respectively. The Danes took the lead straight away, and for almost the entire half the battle was plated in the Scots’ half of the field. After 12 minutes, Viggo Jorgensen scored on a cross from Harry Hansen. The Scots immediately lost their sense of humour, while the crowd cheered, and the cheering would never end when, a few minutes later, Tarp put the ball in front of Poul Nielsen, who scored goal number two. A couple of time the Scot’s center-forward Henderson tried to go through, but the Danish defense was so strong that all attacks were stopped. The Scots then made a slight change to the team’s line-up, as Smith, who had played on the wing, swapped places with Henderson. Smith is an unsympathetic player. He managed surprisingly quickly to get his team-mates excited so violently that the game from the moment he became centre-forward was quite unacceptable rough. The Rangers wanted to win, and the players used all their might. They really also succeeded in displaying so much rawness and brutality that our followers completely rounded the Scots and made a target of Cairns. However, bad luck was with the Scots, Smith had a good run which should have resulted in a goal, but the ball hit the post. In an excellent corner kick, a Scot flew the ball over the bar. Another corner kick was learned by Graae and when Smith towards the end of the half had a good run, he shot wide of the goal. However, the first half ended with the two goals for the Danish team. Play had only gone about five minutes of the second half when the Scots scored. The otherwise solid Danish defence positioned itself badly for a moment and left inner-wing Cairns took full advantage of the exposure and scored. A few minutes later the Scots attacked again, which ended with the ball passing 3-4 Scots and going into goal, but unfortunately the Scotsman who shot it was offside. When the referee, quire rightly saw the entire Scottish forward incident with Smith in the lead, he laughed at him. Smith was now agitated and that brought his spirit to the boiling point. A minute later, when there was free-kick in the Danish penalty area for offside, Smith picked up the ball and kicked it out of the pitch. The referee ordered him off, however his comrades stuck by him, and he refused to leave. A Rangers director came down and after speaking to the player, Smith left the field. After about 17-18 minutes, half-back Nicholson managed to equalize with a header, and the entire Danish team had to go into defence, for the Scots played with all their might to win. The hard game continued on the Scottish side, although discipline seemed a little better after Smith had gone. However, it was only to last a short while. When there were half a dozen minutes left in the match, the Danes went on the attack again, and now took the game to the end. The Scotes were again like street boys against the referee and out players. Laursen got a lot of knocks in particular, which he still accepted without hitting out. The Danish attacks, however, were not dangerous and the midfield stopped many of them. However, the Danish team was getting closer and closer to the Scots goal. However, two minutes before the finish of the match, a Scottish full-back awarded the Danish team a penalty kick, as he assaulted Viggo Jorgensen, who was under the attack and several elbows inside the penalty area. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty, but the Scots refused to stand aside as the referee had ruled, and the kick could not be executed. When this disobedience continued, and the directors did not order the players to obey the referee, the referee waved that the match had finished. As the players took leave of each other, a small man from the audience saw fit to hit the Scotsman Meiklejohn, and the Scotsman retaliated. Right inner wing Muirhead, who wanted to separate the two received a couple of punches from the bystanders. And now the audience poured in from all sides across the green pitch – but nothing happened. For the players went up and Meiklejohn and Muirhead and Poul Neilsen and a couple of other brave men under their protection, while 4-5 police officers quickly arrived. Large crowds, however, stood for a long time below the stairs to the dressing rooms. In the meantime, the police kept order and the Scots left the sports hall by another staircase.
