McConnell
Donaldson (4)
Match Information
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: T Robertson (Glasgow)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
To the man who did not see Airdrieonians pulverise Rangers at Ibrox Park yesterday, the result will seem a miracle. To realise the significance of the feat, you had to recollect that Airdrieonians had won only one of their previous nine League matches, and had in nine matches since the season opened failed entirely to score a goal. Yet 5 goals to 0 against Rangers, at Ibrox! The ting sounds absurd, but it is real. Rangers were outplayed by a team that followed the same plan as did Patrick Thistle on Saturday. Airdrieonians never lingered on the ball. Oi was passed with a rapidity, and carried ahead with a quickness both by half-backs, and forwards, that reduced the Rangers’ middle line to comparative impotence. Pursell – as centre-half in the first half, and right half afterwards – again bravely tried to stem the tide, but Logan and Hendry were quite outclassed. This effected a double purpose. It threw the whole weight of the game on the Rangers defence, and completely prevented the home forwards from ever becoming set. But then, again the Rangers forwards were as sluggish, as the Airdrie lot were lifer and lively. By lucky we don’t mean to imply that they got more than their due, but everything went right for them, while when the Rangers forwards managed to shape anyway well, something was sure to go wrong. That sort of game has been seen before. As things went on the day, however, Airdrieonians were incomparably the better team. They began in a style that boded ill for Rangers, the halfs and forwards playing as if they had been recuperating for months. The Rangers defence held out for about twenty minutes, when McConnell, at centre opened the scoring. Donaldson goat a second, and Airdrie turned with a 2-0 lead. Logan and Pursell then changed places, but matters became rather worse than better, for Donaldson scored three more goals. Each one being the climax to clever bustling forward play that nonplussed the Rangers defence. Thus Donaldson had four of the five goals. It was altogether an inglorious day for Rangers, and one to be remembered with reasonable pride by Airdrieonians. But lest it be imagined that the Airdrie club have never done anything like it before, let us mention that the record defeat of Rangers stands to the credit of Airdrieonians, who won by 10 goals to 2 on the old Rangers ground at Kinning Park. Now the question is whether Airdrieonians can keep their Ibrox form. J Reid was at outside right, and was a new man altogether, while all the inside forwards had a happy days, Donaldson especially. The half-backs took such complete charge of the Rangers forwards that Mackie and Gane were not much troubled, and Brown less so
