25th Nov 2000 Partick Thistle 2 Queen of the South 1 (SFL Second Division - game 16)

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59y, 8m, 23d	John Lambie	John Connolly

Sandy Stewart
Mark McNally

Scott McLean (1-0, 26 mins); David McCallum (2-1, 44 mins)		Warren Hawke (1-1, 33 mins)


Martin Hardie (Ian Cameron [i], 63 mins); Peter Lindau (George Shaw, 80 mins); David McCallum (Willie Howie, 90 mins)		Dean Muir (Jon Sunderland, 64 mins); Jarrod Suddick (Steve Skinner, 66 mins); Steve Pickering (Phil Nixon, 85 mins)

21y, 11m, 18d	Kenny Arthur	David Mathieson
23y, 2m, 18d	David McCallum	Steve Pickering
22y, 11m, 12d	Alan Archibald	Andy Aitken
24y, 0m, 27d	Stephen Craigan	Des McKeown former Jag
22y, 4m, 14d	Jamie Smith	Ronnie McQuilter
35y, 1m, 11d	Sandy Stewart	Dean Muir
35y, 11m, 0d	Allan Moore	Paul Kinnaird former Jag
31y, 7m, 19d	Danny Lennon	Stuart Davidson
24y, 5m, 8d	Scott McLean	Jarrod Suddick
24y, 7m, 3d	Martin Hardie	Warren Hawke
27y, 11m, 16d	Peter Lindau	Peter Weatherson

26y, 8m, 30d

21y, 0m, 18d	Michael Brown	Colin Scott
31y, 9m, 15d	George Shaw	Kevin Robison
34y, 3m, 1d	Ian Cameron [i]	Phil Nixon
19y, 9m, 12d	Derek Lyle	Jon Sunderland
18y, 4m, 16d	Willie Howie	Steve Skinner

TTA report

Thistle took the lead when Arthur held a corner, launched the ball up field and McLean shrugged off a defender and lobbed the keeper (26). Poor marking in the box let Queens in 7 minutes later but McCallum scored with a 25 -yarder from an Archibald cut-back (44). Not at their best but Thistle went 7 points clear at the top.

Media report

27-Nov-2000, Daily Record

YOU'RE TALKING BALLS MY OLD PAL. FOOTBALL can always cause arguments and bosses John Lambie and John Connolly had a major one after this battle. Thistle manager Lambie was adamant his side fully deserved this victory which sent them seven points clear at the top of the Second Division. But Connolly was just as insistent Queens had been robbed.

Lambie said: “We are picking up points although we're not playing well. The conditions today were difficult but you sometimes have to grind out results. My keeper hardly had one save to make in the whole game. Football is all about results and some people might say we were lucky but we created the better chances and we deserved to win.”

Connolly saw it differently, however, and was first into his old pal's office after the game to put his point across. He said: “Lambie and I go back a long way but he must have been watching a different game to me. All their chances came from long-range shooting. I thought we deserved something and I'm disappointed to come away with nothing. The defending at their first goal was schoolboy stuff and it gave Thistle a lift. We matched them over the 90 minutes and some of our football in the second half was great. We've now lost six games by one goal - that's how tight it is.”

The Jags took the lead with a classic sucker-punch goal. Paul Kinnaird's corner for Queens was held by Kenny Arthur and the keeper's massive clearance sent Scott McLean clear. The striker showed brilliant composure to shrug off Stephen Pickering's challenge before lobbing keeper David Mathieson for his 12th goal of the season. Seven minutes later sloppy Thistle defending handed Queens an equaliser. Kinnaird's ball into the box was missed by everyone bar the unmarked Warren Hawke who was left with the easiest of tasks. But on the stroke of half time 23-year-old David McCallum scored his first goal for the Jags since joining them in the summer from Stirling Albion. Alan Archibald burst down the left and his cut back saw McCallum's 25- yarder beat Mathieson.

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