Referee Dougie Smith

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Dougie Smith

• Formally J. Douglas K. Smith.
• Most commonly listed as J. D. K. Smith, with press variants including J. Smith, J. Douglas Smith & D. W. Smith.
• Ran the line for referee Les Mottram at Paddy Connolly's famous "ghost goal" on 13th February, 1993. Admitted years later on the BBC's 'Off The Ball' that he knew it was a goal but followed protocol in not contradicting the referee. Connolly was denied his first senior hat-trick, but his side's 4-0 win softened the blow. Goalposts were redesigned afterwards; old-skool rigid stanchions would soon become a thing of the past.

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	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	27.09.1986 Brechin City [h] W1-0 (SFL First Division - game 10)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	12.03.1988 Celtic [h] L0-3 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final)	0	0	-	-		0	L0-4
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	09.04.1988 Meadowbank Thistle [h] W2-1 (SFL First Division - game 40)		0	-	-	0	0	W5-0
	-	Dougie Smith (Duns)	16.09.1989 Meadowbank Thistle [a] D1-1 (SFL First Division - game 7)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	02.01.1993 Motherwell [h] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 25)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	13.02.1993 Dundee United [h] L0-4 (SFL Premier Division - game 29)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	07.08.1993 Hibernian [a] D0-0 (SFL Premier Division - game 1)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	21.08.1993 Raith Rovers [a] D2-2 (SFL Premier Division - game 3)	0		-	-	0	0	L0-5
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	30.11.1993 Motherwell [a] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 20)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	22.01.1994 Motherwell [h] D0-0 (SFL Premier Division - game 28)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	08.10.1994 Heart of Midlothian [h] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 8)	0	0	-	-		0	L0-4
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	31.12.1994 Kilmarnock [h] D2-2 (SFL Premier Division - game 18)	0	0	-	-		0	L0-4
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	17.02.1995 Ayr United [a] W2-0 (Friendly)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	06.01.1996 Heart of Midlothian [h] L0-1 (SFL Premier Division - game 19)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	30.03.1996 Motherwell [h] L0-2 (SFL Premier Division - game 31)	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	10.08.1996 Queen's Park [h] W3-1 (Challenge Cup 1st Round) aet	0	0	-	-	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	16.11.1996 Clydebank [a] W3-1 (SFL First Division - game 13)			-	-	0	0	D5-5
	-	Dougie Smith (Troon)	24.01.1998 St Johnstone [a] L0-1 (Scottish Cup 3rd Round)	0	0			0	0	D1-1
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	21.03.1998 Greenock Morton [a] L0-1 (SFL First Division - game 29)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-2
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	07.11.1998 East Fife [h] L0-1 (SFL Second Division - game 14)	0	0		0	0	0	L0-3
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	20.03.1999 Livingston [h] D1-1 (SFL Second Division - game 30)	0	0			0	0	W3-2
-		Dougie Smith (Troon)	08.05.1999 Queen of the South [a] D2-2 (SFL Second Division - game 36)		0		0	0	0	W5-2
-		Dougie Smith	04.09.1999 Stranraer [a] D1-1 (SFL Second Division - game 5)	0				0	0	L3-6
-		Dougie Smith	29.02.2000 Clyde [a] L0-1 (SFL Second Division - game 25)	0	0			0	0	L1-4
-		Dougie Smith	25.03.2000 Queen of the South [a] D1-1 (SFL Second Division - game 30)		0				0	L7-8
-		Dougie Smith	25.11.2000 Queen of the South [h] W2-1 (SFL Second Division - game 16)	0	0	0	0	0	0	D0-0
-		Dougie Smith	17.11.2001 Clyde [a] L1-3 (SFL First Division - game 15)		0			0	0	W8-1
9	18	← Totals →	27	5	4	20	13	4	0	L38-56

Dougie Smith's Summary
Average crime count per game	3.48 pts
The crime count % balance	40-60 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1 (W6 D9 L12)
compiled to our All Games criteria @ 10-Dec-2025

Thistle's Historical Summary
Average crime count per game ᵃ	1.454 pts
Average crime count per game ᵇ	4.666 pts
The crime count % balance	48-52 to Thistle's detriment
Thistle's ppg (@ 3pts per win)	1.413 (W2759 D1440 L2678)
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 @ 01-Mar-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.

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