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Graeme Dott doesn’t believe he will be in a position to repeat his famous 2006 world triumph Scotland boss Tommy Docherty, Denis Law, right, and Bobby Moncur look like they don’t hahave much to worry aboutab the night beforebe taking on PeruPe in a friendly at HampdenHa in 1972.
AndA their lai laidback attitude proB proved spot on.
Both players sta started and goals fro from John O’Hare an and the Lawman – wh who was skipper – ggave the Scots a 22-0 win as they se sent their South Am American visitors ho home with tails be between their legs. There isn’t a Partick Thistle man but will go red in the face if you dare argue that Referee Graham was right in his penalty award that gave Rangers their second goal and, who knows, decided the championship.
Jimmy McGowan, the “culprit”, will swear he did not deliberately bring Johnny Hubbard down as the little South African was flashing in on Tommy Ledgerwood.
Jimmy maintains he pushed his foot out hoping to edge the ball back to his keeper. The referee saw it otherwise.
Anyway, when George Young, a mighty figure standing above them all in sheer football mastery, cracked home the spot-kick, the Thistle boys gaped. Two down, it was a travesty.
Two minutes before, Wi l lie Gardiner, clear of the dominating
SUNDAY MAIL APRIL 12, 1953 Each week we take a step back
in time and give you a match report from a game of yesteryear Jimmy Davidson for the first time, had headed home one of Young’s Big Berthas from his own half.
A magnificent Joe McInnes effort got Thistle back into it but they just couldn’t find parity.