4th Nov 1957 Coventry City 3 Partick Thistle 2 (Friendly)

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Match Information

			Billy Frith		Davie Meiklejohn			56y, 10m, 23d
					George Smith; Jimmy Henderson; Ian McIntosh
					Davie Mathers; Johnny MacKenzie; Ian Wilson
Peter Hill (1-1, 30 mins); Ken McPherson (1-2, 35 mins); Peter Hill (1-3, 47 mins)					Jimmy Mallon (1-0, 12 mins); Roy Kirk (2-3, og 83 mins)
			Graham Spratt		Tommy Ledgerwood			34y, 8m, 12d
			John Austin		Andy Kerr			26y, 4m, 6d
			Mick Walters		Dougie Baird			21y, 11m, 9d
			Vernon Griffiths		Alex Wright			26y, 10m, 24d
			Roy Kirk		Jimmy Davidson			31y, 11m, 27d
			Ian Jamieson		Davie McParland			22y, 5m, 30d
			Jimmy Rogers		George Smith			22y, 5m, 3d
			Bill Patrick		Jimmy Henderson			22y, 5m, 27d
			Ken McPherson		Jimmy Mallon			19y, 2m, 7d
			Peter Hill		Ian McIntosh			24y, 1m, 21d
			Ray Sambrook		Tommy Ewing			20y, 6m, 2d
								24y, 9m, 29d

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Match Report

TTA report

There were lots of thrills, spills and splashes on the rain-soaked pitch. Thistle started brightly and Mallon scored (12). It could have been 3-0 but the Coventry keeper frequently saved his team. They equalised (30) and went ahead (35 and 47). Thistle got their 2nd from a headed OG (83). Good, entertaining match.

Media report

05-Nov-1957, Glasgow Bulletin

PARTICK THISTLE opened the scoring against Coventry City last night but the home side went on to win 3-2. At first Partick were yards faster than Coventry on rain-soaked turf, but on the occasions that the Coventry attack really got moving the goals came. Mallon scored for Partick after 12 minutes and had it not been for Coventry goalkeeper Spratt they would have had another two before Hill scored the equaliser in the 30th minute. McPherson put Coventry ahead five minutes later, Hill got his second goal for Coventry two minutes after the interval, and Kirk (Coventry) put through his own goal in the 83rd minute.

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Coventry Evening Telegraph, 5th November, 1957

Birmingham Gazette, 5th November, 1957

Stats Watch

● 24-year-old Ian McIntosh plays his last game for Thistle.

● Jimmy Mallon scores his last goal for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 36 consecutive competitive appearances for Andy Kerr, 26th Jan 1957 to date. (Longest run since: Andy Kerr - 67 games, 15th Oct 1955 to 12th Jan 1957. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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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