28th Jan 1888 Partick Thistle 2 Queen's Park 3 (Friendly)

matches:1887-88: ← 26game 2728 →

Match Information

Robert Middleton; Bob Marshall; Jerry Suter
James Miller; Willie Paul; John Galt
Bob Marshall (1-2, 1st half); Andrew Johnston (2-2, 1st half)					Grieve (0-1, 3 mins); Alec Hamilton (0-2, 1st half); Alec Hamilton (2-3, 2nd half)
			Thomas Burns		George Gillespie former Jag
			John Hendry		Walter Arnott
			John Munro		Bob Smellie future Jag
			Robert Brown		Hill
25y, 7m, 11d			Robert Middleton		Auld
21y, 7m, 11d			John Stewart		Allan Stewart
23y, 2m, 29d			Bob Marshall		Alec Hamilton
			Jim Buchanan		James Hamilton
22y, 8m, 6d			Bob Robertson		John Allan
22y, 3m, 16d			Andrew Johnston		John Lambie
24y, 7m, 25d			Jerry Suter		Grieve
23y, 4m, 8d

notes

The scheduled 3pm kick-off was delayed by 20 minutes. The OH (by process of elimination), the EC and the SRI all credit Bob Robertson with Thistle's first goal, but the GH describes the play as “Robertson slanting the straight into the mouth of the goal, Marshall giving the finishing touch with a header.” We go with Bob Marshall per the descriptive account in the GH.

Match Report

TTA report

With Paul playing for Glasgow v Sheffield the same day, Thistle went 2 goals down but fought back to 2-2 through Marshall and Johnston. Both teams played good football and created chances before the winner came from a corner. Thistle finished the stronger but couldn't find a third goal.

Stats Watch

ongoing sequences:

● 19 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for John Hendry, 10th Nov 1883 to date. (A new club-record.)

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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