Waddell 26
Dewar 50
Gilmour 86
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I was reluctant to go to Ibrox yesterday. and a darned sight more reluctant to come way! I wasnt keen to do the Ibrox game because Id been told Rangers were much superior last week and ought to make sure of it this time. Games that are played only in one half of the field dont excite this laddie. Well, at the finish I heard inflamed Cathkin fans declare they were swindled by Rangers winning goal. One thing is certain, the neutrals werent swindled. They got a game that made them support each side in turn, bawl out the referee, glare at their watches, their neighbours, and in short behave like guys who were mad and didnt want to be cured. When Rangers scored the winning goal four minutes from time, there was a hullaballoo. Third Lanark players gave the ref five yards and overtook him before midfield. Offside! they bawled. Willie Webb didnt even condescend to take his cotton-wool out. The man on my left said, Offside a mile. The man on my right said, A perfectly good goal. I was in between, so I said nowt! In such instances as this one, I defy anyone in the Press-box to be so decided. When Gilmour took the pass from Kinnear, he had no defender near him by which we could measure his position. As the referee gave a goal, and the linesman didnt flag, I dont want proof that it was a goal. I want proof that it wasnt! The result was the least important feature. For here was a game that put football back on the map. Theres nothing sweeter to the eyes than a ball sped on its zig-zag way from one end of the field to the other. This game was crammed with that. Beautiful football. And vigorous. Good shooting too. Particularly from Rangers. McAffrey was an ARP Wardens dream for the first 26 minutes not a chink showing. Then, after knuckling out a Kinnear corner among a host of players, it must have been galling for him to see Waddell quickly lob the ball back over his head into the empty goal. Third were very much in the game with some delightful mid-field movements. It was anybodys game. Just on the interval, Neilly Dewar showed his breed when he deliberately held back his leg as Jenkins dived headlong on top of the ball four yards from goal. Yet that ball was Dewars more than Jenkins. Neil missed a snip under the bar just after tea-time (I suppose it is tea-time, tho theres never anything in the Ibrox Press-box to indicate this!). But five minutes later, the big fellow zipped forwards and crashed the equaliser home when Blair sent over. Third looked to be winners. Rangers looked to be winners. Aw heck they were both goanna win! It was still like that when the Gilmour winner came along to spoil the fun.
