Queen's Park 0
Clydebank 1
Scottish Cup (3rd Round Replay)

Match Report

It took a fluke goal in the third minute of injury time to destroy the strongest ever "Spider's" web at Hampden on Monday night.

That gossamer woven by a 16 year old schoolboy goalkeeper called Atkins who on his home debut from the amateurs, played with all the assurance and ability of Shilton.

Even the most hardened Bankies fans felt more than a hint of sorrow for him when he was finally beaten.

With most of the 800 or so hardy souls making for the exits, Clydebank were awarded a free kick in the middle of the park, 45 yards from gaol.

Doug Brown mishit the ball hard along the skidpan surface, Blair Millar did the splits with all the grace of Olga Korbut (the ball skating between his legs) and there was John McCormack to divert it past "King Spider" Atkins.

It was hard on Queens Park who had played well above their standard, but in all honesty Clydebank deservedly took the final honours.

Blair Millar had fired in two cracking first half headers, the first of which flew over the bar and the other brilliantly stopped by Atkins.

And Bankies had forced six corners in quick succession midway through the second half, and several goalbound efforts were madly scrambled off the Queens line.

It wasn't a night for fancy football, but in Jim Fallon Clydebank had, by a mile, the most elegant outfielder on the park. The surface was bone hard, the ball bounced awkwardly, but he played with enough controlled skill and awareness to suggest that he could play a blinder in bare feet on a bed of nails.

Queens had a lively citizen in striker Ballantyne who produced all three of their "on target" shots... he'll go far. They also had a hard, rugged midfielder called McAloon. One Clydebank fan obviously pleased with his little rhyme about McAloon being a balloon...it's far from the truth.