27th Oct 1888 Vale of Leven 3 Partick Thistle 4 (Friendly)

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Match Information

					Jerry Suter
					Bob Marshall
Campbell (0-1, 18 mins); James McLachlan (3-2, 2nd half); James McLachlan (3-3, 85 mins)					Andrew Johnston (1-1, 1st half); Willie Paul (2-1, 1st half); McBride (3-1, 48 mins); Scrimmage (4-3, 88 mins)
			John Gow		John McCorkindale			21y, 1m, 27d
			Andrew Whitelaw		William Proudfoot			22y, 9m, 0d
			William Murray		Thomas Campbell
			John Baird		Bob Robertson			23y, 5m, 5d
			James Cowan		George Ward			25y, 1m, 19d
			Collins		Jerry Suter			25y, 4m, 24d
			James McLachlan		Peter Bennett
			Campbell		McBride
			Paton		Willie Paul			22y, 8m, 20d
			James McMillan		Andrew Johnston			23y, 0m, 15d
			McIntyre		David Hislop			20y, 11m, 25d
								23y, 0m, 28d

notes

Our goals sequence comes from the fairly detailed account in the LNH/EC, but we note that the GH has McBride for the second and Willie Paul for the third Thistle goals, a swap-around of the other reports.

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Match Report

TTA report

Vale settled first and went 1 up but Thistle played some good football and it was 2-1 at half-time through Johnston and Paul (who also hit the post). McBride made it 3 just after the break but Vale levelled before a scrambled winner just on the final whistle ended “a pleasant game” (GH).

Stats Watch

ongoing sequences:

● 19 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for Andrew Johnston, 24th Oct 1885 to date. (Longest run since: John Hendry, 19 games - 10th Nov 1883 to 26th Nov 1887. Now a joint 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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