Gilmour
Thornton
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
Im not going to say this was a good Glasgow Cup final. Frankly, it was not. Indeed, so far as skilful football is concerned, it was about the poorest I have seen since the outbreak of war. There was far too much bodyline work, while Queens Park too it into their foolish heads that they could get through the usually sound Rangers defence by kicking the ball upfield and making a dash after it. The result was that most attempts by the Amateurs to get into the position to put the ball past Dawson were easily repulses by Gray, Woodburn and Shaw. The Ibrox rear lines are so compact that an opposing team has to play on to them to have any hopes of success. That Queens general tactics were wrong were proved on the few occasions when they did make headway by concerted action. Then they had the Rangers defence working overtime, so much overtime, indeed, that if I had been referee, I would have given a penalty against the Light Blues for the manner in which Kyle was brought down when he was through to make the score 2-1 in favour of his side. It may be argued that he should have shot before he was made the chicken in the sandwich, but the fat remains that he was fowled (sorry!). If Queens had taken the lead, then half-way through the second half there is no saying what would have happened. As things happened Rangers went ahead a minute or two later, and thereafter there was only one team in it. Rangers, all through the piece, were the more methodical eleven, but they were opposed to a hard-working defence, behind which was a goalkeeper who did many fine things. Hamiltons saving could not have been improved upon up to the loss of his sides second goal. Right through the game there was more than enough of hefty tackling, with free kicks being awarded at regular intervals for dangerous play. The Hampden players went into it as if they didnt know how to deliver a shoulder charge, while Venters of Rangers went into it as if he didnt care how, one should be delivered. There were two particular instances of his tackling, one in the first half, when he deservedly came off second best, that even his warmest admirers must distinctly have disliked. The first goal was scored by McNee in the last minute prior to half-time. Waddell thumped over a ball that Thornton missed, but was collected by the outside left, who first times it passed the goalkeeper. Within five minutes of the restart Dawson misjudged the flight of a high one and Kyle nodded the ball over the line. In the twenty-seventh minute Thornton made contact with a McNee cross that Hamilton failed to intercept, and fifteen minutes later Waddell succeeded in catching a ball on the goal-line to sling it over for Gilmour to mak siccar. Summing up of the players is not called for other than to say that those who didnt make mistakes didnt get possession of the ball sufficiently to make them. A disappointing tie
