You Couldn't Make It Up!

by Jack Little

The Summer Cup final at Hampden on 30/6/1945 should have been a showpiece end to wartime football in Scotland but it was a poor game watched by a poor crowd of around 30,000. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill after the Battle of Britain, in his match report in the "Sunday Post", George McLachlan summed up the game thus:- "Never in the history of football conflict has so little been accomplished by so many. The only thrills were in watching Husband's stupendous throw-ins from touch." The brutal truth may have appealed to the purists but Thistle supporters probably cared little. Thistle beat Hibs 2-0 to lift the cup.

Publishing date An original Thistle Archive publication, 07-Sep-2020.
Latest edit date Latest edit version 02-Jun-2020.

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