East Fife 4, Forfar 5! Celebrated scoreline finally comes true – if only on penalties after 1-1 draw

Thomas Reilly earned Forfar a bonus point in yesterday’s Group B game at East Fife – and enabled a tonguetwisting result beloved of late comedian Eric Morecambe to be recorded for the first time in the fixture’s history – when he slotted home the 12th penalty in a 5-4 shoot-out success which followed a 1-1 draw.

The hosts took the lead after seven minutes when Anton Dowds’ deflected shot found the net. Chris Kane clattered into the Loons’ Dylan Easton on 28 minutes and was shown a straight red card, with Forfar makingtheextramancounton half-time when player/assistantmanagerjohnbairdcurled home a pass from Easton.

Reilly hit the decisive spotkick after Ross Davidson and Daryll Meggatt had missed for East Fife and Baird had sinned for the Station Park men.

Morecambe came up with the scoreline “East Fife 4, Forfar 5” as a greeting whenever he met his friend James Alexander Gordon, the announcer who read the classified results on the BBC for 40 years.

Alloa’s 4-3 penalty success after a 1-1 draw in front of a crowd of 1,659 at Tannadice ended Dundee United’s interest in progressing, with Csaba Laszlo’s men four points off the top of Group A.

Frederic Frans looked to have eased the pressure on Laszlo when he headed United into the lead on 24 minutes, however Alan Trouten equalised from the spot 11 minutes from time.

Penalty misses from Stewart Murdoch and Paul Mcmullan saw the Wasps triumph and move into second place behind Ross County with Laszlo left saying: “It is frustrating as we are not where we want to be. However, if we can hit the ground running in the Championship then we can move on quickly.”

Arbroath sit above United after a 2-0 Gayfield success over Elgin with Colin Hamilton and Thomas O’brien netting in the second half.

Queen of the South made it three wins out of three when they defeated Edinburgh City 4-0 to set up the chance to secure qualification from Group G at Motherwell tomorrow night.

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