25th Mar 1882 Middlesbrough 1 Partick Thistle 4 (Friendly)

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Match Information

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Albert Borrie (3-1, 2nd half)					? (1-0, 1st half); Hugh McColl (2-0, 1st half); Scrimmage (3-0, 1st half); Peter Ewing (4-1, 2nd half)
			Rowlands		Andrew Duff			22y, 11m, 15d
			Peel		John Hendry
			Ransford		Bobby Brown			20y, 3m, 19d
			Pringle		Jack Beattie			22y, 6m, 26d
			Cochrane		J. Cooper
			Booth		Peter Ewing			23y, 11m, 7d
			Ewbank		John Young [i]
			Mattison		Hugh McColl			23y, 8m, 3d
			Albert Borrie		Thomas Paterson			25y, 0m, 27d
			Pickstock		George Leckie			21y, 9m, 17d
			Thompson		Bain [i]
								22y, 10m, 24d

notes

Some contemporary reports give the score as a win for Thistle by 3-2, although the following season’s SFA Annual, and the NBDM reports it was 5-1 (4-0 h-t) but that one of the first half goals was disputed. In the end, the best bet would seem to be sticking with 4-1 per the provider of our teamlines, the MWE.

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Match Report

TTA report

Middlesbrough lacked “tact and coolness” (MWE). Thistle took an early lead "owing to the bungling of Rolland" (keeper) and after a few close things by the locals, 2 goals (McColl and a scrimmage) made it 3-0 at half-time. Duff was badly charged and missed the second half injured. Middlesbrough scored but Ewing got the 4th for the 10 men.

Media report

Middlesbrough Weekly Exchange

MIDDLESBROUGH (ASSOCIATION) V GLASGOW (PARTICK THISTLE). This important match between the above clubs was played at the Cricket Field, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, on Saturday afternoon last, and resulted in a victory for the visitors by four goals to one. The Scotch team is known as one of the best across the border, and therefore, before the match commenced, it was generally thought that the Middlesbrough men would have to play second fiddle to their more practised opponents, but the home team made a good bout of it, and had they played with a little more tact and coolness they might have been able to have made a drawn game of it.

The first goal was secured for Glasgow soon after the game commenced, owing to the bungling of Rowland, the Middlesbrough goal-keeper. The home team, however, got possession of the globe, but were unfortunate, as, after some capital runs, a couple of shots at goal went over the crossbar, and the visitors regaining possession, never left the globe until they had scored a second goal. From a scrimmage, the Scotchmen scored goal No.3, and then half-time was called.

Middlesbrough, in the second half of the game, played much better together, but they were unable to prevent their opponents from securing the fourth goal. The rest of the play was entirely in favour of Middlesbrough, Borrie scoring the first and only goal secured by the home team, who missed several good chances of scoring.

Stats Watch

● Bain [i] makes his first-known appearance for Thistle.

● 23-year-old Hugh McColl makes his last-known appearance for Thistle and (theoretically) joins our scoring finale club.

ongoing sequences:

● 5 consecutive competitive home wins; 5th Feb 1881 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

● 9 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for Andrew Duff, 5th Apr 1879 to date. (A new club-record.)

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