23rd Apr 1962 Partick Thistle 4 Dundee United 2 (SFL First Division - game 33)

matches:1961-62: ← 44game 4546 →

Match Information

42y, 1m, 20d			Willie Thornton		Jimmy Kerr
David Closs; George Smith; Gordon Whitelaw
Alex Wright; Dickie Williamson; Billy Hainey
Gordon Whitelaw (1-0, 35 mins); George Smith (2-0, 40 mins); Joe McBride (3-1, 62 mins); Gordon Whitelaw (4-1, 69 mins)					Wattie Carlyle (2-1, 55 mins); Dennis Gillespie (4-2, 80 mins)
32y, 10m, 12d			George Niven		Sandy Davie
22y, 3m, 2d			George Muir		Alec Gordon
23y, 0m, 30d			Sandy Brown		Jimmy Briggs
20y, 10m, 22d			David Closs		Tommy Neilson
21y, 8m, 3d			Donnie McKinnon		Doug Smith
20y, 9m, 8d			Billy Cunningham		Stewart Fraser
26y, 10m, 22d			George Smith		Wattie Carlyle
23y, 6m, 10d			Gordon Whitelaw		Tommy Millar
23y, 10m, 13d			Joe McBride		Dennis Gillespie
25y, 1m, 16d			Neil Duffy		Jim Irvine
26y, 11m, 18d			Davie McParland		George Pattie
24y, 4m, 9d

Match Report

TTA report

“Thistle win dull match at Firhill“ (GH). Goals by Whitelaw (rounded the keeper) and Smith gave Thistle a 2-goal lead at half-time. United scored (55) then McBride soared to head home a Whitelaw cross. Whitelaw added a 4th before United scored again from an obviously off-side position. Duffy and Whitelaw were outstanding on the night.

Media report

24-Apr-1962, Glasgow Herald

With little at stake it was not surprising that Partick Thistle and Dundee United produced a dull game at Firhill Park. Thistle were two goals up at half-time, Whitelaw and Smith having scored, but 10 minutes after the interval Carlyle, now playing at centre forward, shot past Niven, and United, without exerting any great pressure, were back in the game. The outstanding moment of the game, however, ended United’s revival when Whitelaw ran up the right wing and crossed hard into goal, and McBride, with a prodigious leap, headed the ball well beyond Davie. Whitelaw added a fourth,a nd Gillespie shot a second for the visitors, from what looked an offside position. Mr Stewart, who had an excellent game, adjudged however, that the scorer had been onside when the ball had been played. Duffy was the outstanding player in the home team, and Carlyle and Gillespie were the most industrious members of a lacklustre United team.

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Glasgow Herald, 24th April, 1962

Stats Watch

● Gordon Whitelaw scores his first goal for Thistle, adding a second for good measure.

ongoing sequences:

● 40 consecutive competitive appearances for Billy Cunningham, 23rd Aug 1961 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Joe McBride - 64 games, 26th Nov 1960 to 17th Mar 1962. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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