East Fife 6
Clydebank 0
League (Division 2)

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East Fife 

6 - 0

Clydebank

League (Division 2)
Wednesday, April 10th, 1968
Bayview Park. Att. 1,368
6:30 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
Alex Rae (15)
Alan Guild (pen 28)
George Dewar (46)
George Dewar (56)
Jim Kinsella (65)
Andy Waddell (70) 		None.

Team Managers
Jimmy Bonthrone Jack Steedman

Starting Eleven
1 Dave Gorman
2 Doug Soutar
3 Henry McLeish
4 Bobby Waddell
5 Alan Guild
6 Drew Nelson
7 Bertie Miller
8 Alex Rae
9 George Dewar
10 Jim Kinsella
11 Andy Waddell 		Bobby Hodge 1
Malcolm Henderson 2
Davie Mitchell 3
Ernie Collumbine 4
Dennis Ruddy 5
Dougie Hay 6
Eddie Rutherford 7
Stan King 8
Jim Fleming 9
Tony Moy 10
Tommy McGhee 11

Bench
12 Walter Borthwick John Baxter 12

Substitutions
None. John Baxter for Bobby Hodge (47)

Cautions
Henry McLeish (66) Stan King (40)
Tony Moy (45)
Jim Fleming (56)
Dennis Ruddy (80)

Red Cards
None. Tony Moy (45)
Stan King (45)
Dennis Ruddy (85)

Match Officials

JRP Gordon (Referee)




Match Report

Daily Record

In a drama-packed first-half, two Clydebank players were sent off.

King was first to go after a foul on Miller and was followed immediately by Moy who showed dissent.

The Fifers held a two goal lead at this stage thanks to goals by Rae in the 15th minute and Guild from a penalty in the 28th minute.

Immediately after the interval Dewar prodded home a third goal from close in.

Bankies Junior 'keeper was taken off and substitute Baxter took his place.

After Dewar had put the Fifers further ahead in the 56th minute, Bankies centre Fleming was booked.

Fife full-back McLeish was the next candidate for referee Gordon's book for a foul on Rutherford one minute after Andy Waddell had scored the fifth for the home side.

Bobby Waddell added a sixth in the 70th minute.

In the 85th minute Ruddy fouled McLeish and received his marching orders.

Clydebank have submitted an official complaint to the SFA about the way this game was handled by referee John Gordon of Newport-on-Tay who is on the FIFA list this season.

Mr Gordon sent off Stan King, Tony Moy and Dennis Ruddy and booked East Fife left back Harry McLeish.

This is the first time for many years that a Scottish Club has had three men sent off in one match.

Bankies lost their trialist keeper and he was replaced by John Baxter.

Leven Mail

Three players sent off, two others booked and six goals were the ingredients of this postponed league clash with Clydebank, last week. In an incredible ninety minutes in which referee Gordon of Newport seldom had his "black book" out of his hand incident after incident reduced the game to farcical proportions.

The men who received their marching orders were all Clydebank players inside right King, inside left, Moy and centre half Ruddy.

The two others booked were centre forward Fleming of Clydebank and left back McLeish of East Fife.

Yet despite the orderings off and the bookings this was not a dirty game. In many ways, up to the interval, before players started to leave the field, it was first class entertainment.

The incident, which sparked off the chain reaction leading to the visitors finishing the game with eight players on the field (including substitute Baxter), came in injury time of the first half.

Clydebank inside right King, who had been booked shortly before the interval for a simple foul on Kinsella, pulled down Bert Miller on the right touch line and was promptly sent to the pavilion by the referee.

The player was perhaps unlucky to go off because a severe caution rather than a booking for the foul on Kinsella would have been sufficient. As it was with his name already in the black book" referee Gordon had no alternative but to send him from the field.

This should have been the end of the incident but as the seconds of injury time ticked away inside left Moy protested bitterly to the referee over the sending off and he too had his name taken. And after still showing dissent he also joined King in the pavilion.

It was probably the strangest incident ever seen at Bayview and the Bankies had to resume with only nine men.

The Fifers on the other hand were having troubles of their own.

They held a two goal lead at this stage thanks to Alex Rae and Alan Guild but the inside right, whose header in the 15th minute produced the best goal of the game, was injured while scoring it and went off the field for treatment for slight concussion.

However he resumed after the interval taking the Fifers back to full strength to deal with a Bankie outfit numerically down by two men and trailing by two goals to nil.

From this point on it was just a question of how many the Fifers would score and the goals themselves were merely incidental to the action.

With the second half only two minutes old the first of the many incidents of the remaining forty five minutes arrived.

Bobby Wallace tried a long lob into the Clydebank penalty area and the trialist 'keeper dropped it as he was challenged by Rae and Dewar.

The centre snapped up the chance and put the Fifers three in front but before play restarted the Bankies were weakened even further.

In trying to save Rae's opener in the first half the 'keeper had damaged a finger and this was obviously the reason for dropping the simple Waddell cross. The 'keeper was immediately taken off and replaced by substitute Baxter an outfield player whose goalkeeping ability was well above average.

However, even the acrobatic Baxter could not keep the score line down and in the 56th minute Jim Kinsella cleverly chipped over a cross to George Dewar who had a simple job in nodding it past the substitute 'keeper.

And once again referee Gordon's book appeared in his hand. This time it was Fleming whose name went in, presumably again for a comment made at the restart after the goal.

The fifth goal came in the 20th minute when Dave Souter floated over a neat cross to Andy Wad- del who first timed it into the net.

One minute later the book was out again when Henry McLeish pulled down Rutherford and the full back's name was added to the ever growing list.

The final ten minutes was just a succession of warnings and bookings which culminated in another ordering off.

In the 79th minute Bobby Waddell put the Fifers six in front with a free kick that was deflected by a defender and only sixty seconds elapsed before referee Gordon's book was out again to add Ruddy to the list for a foul on Miller.

Four minutes later the centre half pulled down McLeish in fine style. Referee Gordon had his book in his hand with practised Lease and on consulting his notes found the offender's name already entered and ordered him from the field to join Moy and King in the pavilion.

Bobby Waddell had the ball in the net sixty seconds after this incident but had the goal disallowed for an earlier infringement as the visitors played out the remaining minutes with only eight men.



Squad Statistics (as at April 10th, 1968)

1967-68 All Time
League Cups All
Bobby Hodge (GK) 1 - 0 - 1 -
Davie Mitchell 34 - 9 - 713
Dennis Ruddy 3 - 0 - 3 -
Malcolm Henderson 20 - 3 - 23 -
Ernie Collumbine 28 - 9 - 77 -
Stan King 3338 - 413
Tommy McGhee 2518 - 856
Dougie Hay 1210 - 121
Tony Moy 3321859966
Eddie Rutherford 14 - 1 - 15 -
Jim Fleming 238522810
John Baxter (sub) 25391344







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
10th April 1968
Albion Rovers3-1Dumbarton
Arbroath1-0Berwick Rangers
Brechin City5-1Ayr Utd
East Fife6-0Clydebank
East Stirlingshire2-1Forfar Ath
Montrose0-0St Mirren

League Table (as at April 10th, 1968)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. St Mirren 30 24 5 1 +61 53
2. Arbroath 32 21 4 7 +49 46
3. East Fife 32 19 6 7 +25 44
4. Queen's Park 32 18 7 7 +25 43
5. Queen of South 33 16 5 12 +19 37
6. Ayr Utd 29 14 5 10 +13 33
7. Albion Rovers 31 13 7 11 +8 33
8. Forfar Ath 30 13 7 10 -1 33
9. Clydebank 34 13 7 14 -10 33
10. Hamilton Accies 33 12 6 15 -7 30
11. Montrose 32 10 9 13 -4 29
12. Dumbarton 31 10 9 12 -11 29
13. Cowdenbeath 32 10 8 14 -4 28
14. Brechin City 32 7 12 13 -16 26
15. East Stirlingshire 31 8 8 15 -13 24
16. Berwick Rangers 30 11 2 17 -17 24
17. Alloa Athletic 31 9 6 16 -26 24
18. Stenhousemuir 31 5 5 21 -52 15
19. Stranraer 32 5 4 23 -39 14