You Couldn't Make It Up!

by Jack Little

When John Harvey and an Arbroath player were sent off for throwing punches during a Scottish Cup tie on 4/3/1963, it brought to an end a sequence of 499 matches stretching back to December 1952 without a Thistle player being sent off. It took the all-matches total to 35 known sendings off and it took 3,721 matches to "achieve".

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

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