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Clydebank
4 - 1
 Arbroath

League Cup (Group 8)
Saturday, August 8th, 1970
New Kilbowie Park. Att. 1,696
3:00 PM Kick-off
Goalscorers
Jim Fallon (pen.)  (3)
Davie Mitchell  (43)
Jimmy Caskie  (72)
Jimmy Caskie  (76)
(Assist Mike Jackson)
 		Ian Stewart (71)

Team Managers
Jack Steedman
 Bert Henderson

Starting Eleven
1 Mike McDonald
2 Davie Mitchell
3 Danny Gray
4 Dennis Ruddy
5 Jim Fallon
6 Dougie Hay
7 Bobby Love
8 Donnie Wilson
9 Mike Jackson
10 Alan Munro
11 Jimmy Caskie
 Jim Gallacher 1
Jimmy Booth 2
Tommy Hughes 3
Tom Cargill 4
Bobby Waddell 5
Tommy Walker 6
Eric Sellars 7
Jim Cant 8
Jimmy Jack 9
Dennis Bruce 10
Ian Stewart 11

Bench
12 Paul McMillan
 Stewart Mollison 12

Substitutions
Paul McMillan for Jimmy Caskie
 Stewart Mollison -> Ian Stewart

Cautions
None. Eric Sellars (62)

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

Jimmy McKee (Referee)



Match Report

Clydebank Press

Fantastic. That is the only word I can find to describe the game in general, and the Bankies in particular. They completely demoralised the visiting Arbroath side with a style of football - ably led by Mike Jackson - that is sure to have the Kilbowie attendances rising.

It did you good to see the players playing for one another, passing the ball unselfishly about the park. Their running off the ball was magnificent too, and if they keep up this form it will be first division football at Clydebank next season.

And the man behind the win was Mike Jackson. Queen of the South must have been mad to release him on a free transfer, if he can still turn in performances like this. He was all over the park spurring on his team of babes, and they responded magnificently.

It was Jackson in the 3rd minute, who sent a beautiful pass ahead of Jimmy Caskie. The winger outstripped the defence but as he rounded the keeper, he was sent crashing to the ground by Jim Gallacher, the ex-Yoker Athletic goalie, and himself a Clydebank lad.

A penalty it was, and centre half Jim Fallon made no mistake from the spot, although Gallacher - did manage to touch the ball as it went into the net.

Eight minutes later, the Jackson - Caskie combination nearly struck again. The winger took a pass from his captain and outpaced right-half Cargill, but his parting shot hit the post and rebounded back into play to Alan Munro, whose first-time shot was blocked by the keeper

In the 20th minute, Donnie Wilson nearly scored. The tall inside-right controlled a high ball beautifully, before rounding Hughes, but he made a hash of his parting shot, sending it high into the terracing.

The Clydebank team appealed for a penalty in the 27th minute after a shot from Alan Munro seemed to be diverted away from goal by an arm.

This was a sure sign of the desperate state the Red Lichties defence was in. They were being caught out time after time by the homesters quick breaks.

Just after the half-hour mark, Mike Jackson sent a header from a Jimmy Caskie corner just wide.

Two minutes from the interval, right-back David Mitchell notched up his side's second goal.

Jimmy Caskie started the move, when he took advantage of an unfortunate slip by Waddell, and crossed across the face of the goal. The ball was only half-cleared, and "Sunshine" Mitchell snapped the ball into the back of the net.

Arbroath right-winger Eric Sellers seemed certain to score a goal when he returned a faulty clearance by Mike McDonald first-time towards the empty net, but the Clydebank man raced across his goal in record time to save.

Five minutes later, Sellers was booked for a blatant foul on Danny Gray.

Jimmy Caskie earned a round of applause from the crowd with a great shot which shook the post with Gallacher nowhere.

Jimmy Jack brought a few moans from his team-mates when he amazingly missed an open goal from about three yards. Eric Sellers had centred hard and low from the left, but it was Jack himself and not the ball which landed up in the net.

In the 71st minute, Arbroath outside-left Stewart scored when he took advantage of hesitation between Danny Gray and Mike McDonald.

Any hopes the visitors had of a fight-back were dashed a minute later, when Jimmy Caskie scored a brilliant solo goal. He gave two Arbroath defenders, Booth and Cargill, the run-around before shooting home at the near post.

Four minutes later, it was all over, when Jimmy Caskie scored his own second and his side's fourth goal, when he took a high ball from Mike Jackson, and sent a fierce shot into the rigging.

Arbroath Herald

Arbroath returned from Kilbowie Park on Saturday with their tail between their legs, having been well and truly beaten by a young Clydebank side in their opening League Cup fixture.

The Maroons can have no excuse for their defeat. They went down to a side which was superior in every department.

This was perhaps more noticeable in the attack, whose nippy forays tore the Arbroath defence to shreds. They were particularly strong on the wings, with Caskie, on the left, the schemer in chief. Besides hitting two grand goals in a four-minute spell in the second half, he had a hand in the Bankies opening counter.

Arbroath did not have a forward in the same class. They were devoid of the lethal touch. Stewart got their solitary counter, but did little else. Their other newcomer, centre-half Waddell, failed to pin down the live-wire Clydebank attack.

Taken all over, few Gayfield reputations were enhanced in this game.

The Maroons were forced to make a late change. Right-back McKay, who suffered a knee strain in last Wednesday's game with Darlington, had not fully recovered from the injury, and Booth took over.

Clydebank were in the lead after only three minutes' play. Caskie was brought down in the box by Gallacher as both chased the ball. The 'keeper vainly tried to save Fallon's spot kick.

The homesters went further ahead in the 43rd minute when a Caskie cross from the left floated into the goalmouth.

The ball was knocked out by Gallacher and went to Mitchell, who hammered it into the net.

Fast flowing moves by Clydebank were features of the opening of the second period.

Sellars was then carpeted by the referee for a foul on McDonald. Minutes later the same player was booked when he fouled Gray. Arbreoth opened their account in the 71st minute when Stewart scored from close range.

Their joy was, however, short-lived, for in the next minute Caskie restored the Bankies' two-goal lead.

The winger netted again after a shot from Jackson found him in front of the Maroons' goal.

Sunday Post

The Bankies merited their win. They outclassed a disappointing Arbroath, and the final score could have been greater.

Clydebank got off to a great start when Fallon netted a penalty in the third minute after Gallacher had brought down Caskie.

Always good on the break, the Bankies continued to storm the visitors' goal, and inevitably the goal came when Mitchell shot home just before the interval.

Arbroath right-winger Sellars was booked for a foul on Gray in the 62nd minute.

The Clydebank goal had an escape when Jack missed from three yards. But four minutes later Stewart took advantage of hesitation in the home defence and pulled one back for Arbroath.

However, it only took the Bankies minutes to regain their two-goal lead when Caskie scored with a low shot. The same player then scored his own second and his side's fourth in the 76th minute with a fierce shot high into the net.



Squad Statistics (as at August 8th, 1970)

1970-71 All Time
League Cups All
Mike McDonald (GK) 0 - 1 - 31 -
Davie Mitchell 0 - 111535
Dennis Ruddy 0 - 1 - 83 -
Danny Gray 0 - 1 - 50 -
Jim Fallon 0 - 11775
Dougie Hay 0 - 1 - 922
Bobby Love 0 - 1 - 682
Mike Jackson 0 - 1 - 1 -
Jimmy Caskie 0 - 129032
Donnie Wilson 0 - 1 - 101
Alan Munro 0 - 1 - 7733
Paul McMillan (sub) 0 - 1 - 454







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