Fleming xx, xx, xx
Meagher 41
Match Information
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: D Calder (Rutherglen)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
When a team wins by five goals to one it is generally concluded that it has been a one-sided affair, and when one player helps himself to the five goals it may also be assumed that the player has been the best man in the game. So far as the match at Dens Park, Dundee, between Dundee and Rangers is concerned, both conclusions would be wrong. A good heading for his game would be ‘Goals Got Easy’, or ‘Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose’, for it can truthfully be said that Fleming’s five counters were easy earned affairs, and that Dundee’s luck was all out. It did not take Rangers long to get on the lead. About seven minutes, I counted, when Fleming nippily accepted a slide up centre, and best Britton. A minute later Fleming again got possession, close in this time, and a bungle by the home defence gave him another passage. It was all against the run of the game, for in the first minute Dundee ought to have scored. Cook sent over and Campbell let an easy chance pass. It was the same when Save McLean shot three-four-five times over the bar, and when Campbell struck the post with Hamilton guessing, and Meagher hit the cross-bar and Dixon’s head saved a stinger from Robb. There was this in it. Rangers played a beautiful game, but seldom got within shooting distance. Indeed, Hamilton was busier than Britton, but before the interval another goal was scored by Fleming. Five times up Britton’s goal – and three goals! Dundee’s best play was in the last quarter of the first half, but when one minute after the resumption Fleming scored a fourth goal, they were well beaten. This goal was simply ridiculous Malone lofted from a foul, Fleming stretched out his leg, and it cannoned through. The final blow was when Malone raced off and crossed for Fleming to nod home. I have omitted to mention up till now that Meagher scored for Dundee just on the interval. It is difficult to apportion blame, but I should say Ross gave too much rope. Willie Rankine would have done better, and Gilmour is nit a Findlay Brown. Rangers’ footwork was a feature, with none clever than Malone and Chalmers. Cook and Meagher were Dundee’s best, McLean’s awful shooting putting him out of count. It was an interesting game to watch, with only one nasty incident in which J Hamilton figured. The back did something to Cook for which McLean had a word to say, but it passed off. The opportunism of Fleming was all the more remarkable when one remembers how few chances the centre had. It must be a long time now since Rangers won so handsomely at Dens
