Forfar falter in face of fired-up Montrose

The shock of the day in League Two came in the Angus derby at Station Park, where MONTROSE grabbed a 3-1 win against FORFAR ATHLETIC.

The Loons went into the match with a 100% league record but never came close to matching the work rate and effort from the visitors, who deservedly won thanks to two goals from Gary Fraser, including a penalty, and one from Forfar old boy Chris Templeman.

Montrose harassed and harried Forfar throughout and they never gave the league leaders a chance to settle and play the football that took them on their remarkable winning streak.

It was inevitable a goal would come, and just a surprise it took until three minutes from the interval and was scrappy. Fraser was given time on the edge of the box to shoot, but his effort took a deflection off Stuart Malcom to wrong-foot the Forfar keeper.

Two minutes after the interval Forfar were two down thanks to two old boys. Iain Campbell whipped in a free kick and Adam looked to have claimed it before spilling at the feet of Templeman, who stabbed it over the line from a yard out.

The shock drubbing was completed when Montrose went three up in the 64th minute from the penalty spot. Malcom wrapped his legs round McWalter in a tackle in the box and referee Colin Steven had no hesitation in pointing to the spot, Fraser thumping the ball home.

Deep into stoppage time Danny Denholm grabbed a consolation for Forfar, but it was a very poor showing from Gary Bollan’s team.

Meanwhile, ARBROATH slipped to sixth after being held to a draw by Edinburgh City in a sixgoal Meadowbank thriller.

Arbroath took the lead early on through Omar Kader but were pegged back by Marc Laird.

Little headed home Bobby Linn’s cross shortly after half time but his goal was cancelled out by See’s equaliser, and See netted again with 21 minutes remaining.

Martin Scott scrambled a third for the visitors.

Jassem Sukar received a straight red card in the closing stages after a foul on Ian McFarland, but Dick Campbell’s men held on for a point.