Referee Alec McDade

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Alec McDade

• Most commonly listed as A. McDade.

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	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	09.03.1968 Dunfermline Athletic [a] L0-1 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	27.04.1968 Airdrieonians [a] D0-0 (SFL First Division - game 34)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	05.10.1968 Morton [a] D3-3 (SFL First Division - game 5)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	16.08.1969 St Johnstone [h] L1-8 (League Cup Section 3 - game 3)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	20.09.1969 Clyde [a] L1-2 (SFL First Division - game 5)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	04.10.1969 Kilmarnock [h] D2-2 (SFL First Division - game 7)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	27.12.1969 Celtic [a] L1-8 (SFL First Division - game 16)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	18.04.1970 Ayr United [a] L1-2 (SFL First Division - game 34)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	23.09.1970 Dumbarton [a] L2-3 (League Cup Quarter Final, 2nd leg) agg: L5-6		0	-	-	0	0	W5-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	24.04.1971 Stranraer [h] W3-0 (SFL Second Division - game 36)		0	-	-	0	0	W5-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	19.02.1972 Dundee [h] D0-0 (SFL First Division - game 25)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	23.03.1974 Celtic [h] W2-0 (SFL First Division - game 26)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	07.12.1974 Motherwell [h] W2-1 (SFL First Division - game 15)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	14.08.1976 Motherwell [a] D1-1 (League Cup Section 1 - game 1)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	08.01.1977 Heart of Midlothian [a] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 16)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	26.11.1977 Aberdeen [h] W1-0 (SFL Premier Division - game 15)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	12.04.1978 Aberdeen [n] L2-4 (Scottish Cup Semi Final)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
	-	Alec McDade (Barrhead)	29.03.1980 Kilmarnock [a] W1-0 (SFL Premier Division - game 26)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
18	0	← Totals →	18	2	3	0	0	0	0	L10-15

Alec McDade's Summary
Average crime count per game	1.39 pts
The crime count % balance	40-60 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.111 (W5 D5 L8)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 18-Apr-2026

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.454 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	4.671 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.414 (W2766 D1446 L2681)
ᵃ from 1886-87 to 1996-97 (see crime count notes)
ᵇ from 1997-98 to date (see crime count notes)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 16-May-2026

	Crime Count notes
	5 pts are allocated for a penalty, in favour of whichever team is awarded the kick. Our data is comprehensive from 1891-92 (the season of introduction) to date.
	1 pt is allocated for any given player's first yellow card, the point being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is booked and vice-versa. Second yellows are always ignored as superfluous. We introduce the yellow card count from season 1997-98 onwards as our records are comprehensive and meaningful from that season onwards. Official cautions began in the 1940s and we continue to (casually) build such data with a view to, perhaps, setting an earlier date for our yellow card analysis. Incidentally, the actual yellow card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.
	4 pts are allocated for sending offs, the points being in Thistle's favour when an opponent is sent-off and vice-versa. Our crime count database is 'open for business' from 1886-87 onwards as this was the first season that the English FA decreed that the referee had the power to send a player off, although the first known in a Scottish game wasn't until a season later and the first known in a Thistle game wasn't until 1891. Our data is comprehensive from then to the present day. As per the yellow, the actual red card was first introduced to the Scottish domestic game in season 1979-80.