Match ended 0-0
Missed Penalties
A Venters pen miss (+ retake) 10
Match Information
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: William Webb (Glasgow)
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
An 18-year-old boy was the hero of it all. Tommy Ashe, flushed and game, walked off Love Street last night. Youd only to hear the noise a 20,000-crowd made to know that the little, last-minute selection had something to merit that mammoth cheer. He held Venters and doing that he made Rangers fight as they havent had to fight in years to get a point. Rangers were a huge disappointment. Their half-backs were merely defenders, and their forwards didnt matter. I dont think this is the team of the year. Saints ought to have won. Ive never seen them play better. Please banish all thoughts of the second Division after Ashe what a star he was! The right wing had a lot to do with a great performance, but it was really was teamwork fast methodical teamwork that put Saints right back on the map last night. And talking of teamwork, Rangers hadnt six pennyworths of it. Dawson had a lot of saving to do in the last 15 minutes. Five minutes gone; Rangers hammering at Rennie; Thornton falls there in the box. Its a penalty kick against Milliken. Twenty thousand watch Venters tee it up and see him crack in a knee-high shot . . . see Rennie save and hear Willie Webbs whistle, for Willie Webb had not blown for that kick. Theres a hush as he orders it to be retaken. So Venters goes again. This time its a powerful high shot, very powerful, and Rennie rises to it and tips it magnificently over the bar. You cant get any better opening to a game than that. It was just after this that Rangers and the 20,000 others began to blink, for Saints were bang on the offensive now, and that right wing of theirs was giving Rangers a headache. Twenty minutes from the kick-off and Saints were playing all the football that mattered. To date, Rangers only real thrust had come from McNee out on the left. Whats this? Its Cunningham knocking a pound of paint off the Rangers bar. One little Paisley man was already on his way to playing the greatest game of his young life- Ashe the home right-half. With Cunningham and Ferguson, he had Rangers guessing all the wrong answers, a most interesting game, with one team head and shoulders above the other. Saints were looking something like Saints and Rangers were looking like a struggling, colourless bottom-of-the-table team. The first half ended with Rangers right back on their heels, right now ought to have been something like 2-0 for Saints. Saints, after the interval began to wallop Rangers all over again, I dont think there was a lone soul in that swaying, yelling crowd who wasnt saying, But that cant be Rangers. No championship glamour here. Instead, a most ordinary team that was being beaten at every move by these full-of-running Saints! Almost a goal for Saints! A cross from the right, Lindsay went for it and headed strongly into goal. Dawson had to be really brilliant to keep it out. Venters missed a twice taken penalty after 5 minutes
