4th Sep 1886 Abercorn 0 Partick Thistle 3 (Friendly)

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Match Information

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					? (1-0, 1st half); ? (2-0, 2nd half); ? (3-0, og 2nd half)
			Goudie		Andrew Duff			27y, 4m, 25d
			James Heiton		John W. Holm			30y, 9m, 0d
			John McIntyre		John Hendry
			Martin		Andrew Milliken			22y, 8m, 5d
			David Brodie		John Stewart			20y, 2m, 18d
			John Struthers		Gillespie
			Robert McCormick		John Young [ii]			23y, 6m, 11d
			McLerie		John Marshall			36y, 5m, 4d
			James Johnston		Willie Paul			20y, 6m, 28d
			T. Johnston		Jerry Suter			23y, 3m, 1d
			Allison		Andrew Johnston			20y, 10m, 23d
								25y, 0m, 28d

notes

We've changed Thistle's no.2 from “A. Taylor” to “John W. Holm” as subsequent press reports lead us to believe the former was a psuedonym. Holm's club (QP) were not in action on this day. PRG confirms Thistle “had the assistance of J.W. Holm of Queen's Park at back”.

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Match Report

TTA report

Abercorn kicked off playing into the bright sun. Thistle opened the scoring in the first half but Abercorn pressed for an equaliser. However, 2 more goals (the 3rd was an og) sealed the win at Blackstone Park Paisley.

Stats Watch

● Gillespie makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 6 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for Andrew Duff & John Hendry, 10th Nov 1883 to date. (Longest run since: Bob Robertson - 6 games, 29th Sep 1883 to 31st Oct 1885. Joint club-record: Jack Beattie, 17 games - 5th Apr 1879 to 13th Sep 1884 & George Leckie, 17 games - 5th Apr 1879 to 10th Nov 1883.)

Stats Watch adheres to our stated definitions of League, League Max, Major Competitive, Competitive or All Games. Where there is no written qualification, you should presume that the Stat in question is compiled from the All Games criteria.

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