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Clydebank
1 - 4
 East Fife

League (Division 2)
Saturday, November 23rd, 1968
New Kilbowie Park. Att. 702
3:00 PM Kick-off
Goalscorers
Bobby Love  (6)
Bobby Waddell (54)
Alan Guild (pen 57)
Bobby Waddell (80)
Bobby Waddell (89)

Team Managers
Jack Steedman
 Jimmy Bonthrone

Starting Eleven
1 Dick Madden
2 Malcolm Henderson
3 Davie Mitchell
4 Ernie Collumbine
5 Jim Fallon
6 Tommy McGhee
7 Gerry O'Brien
8 Bobby Love
9 Dougie Hay
10 Ian Hawkshaw
11 Jimmy Caskie
 Dave Gorman 1
Doug Soutar 2
Walter Borthwick 3
David Clarke 4
Alan Guild 5
Alex Rae 6
Bertie Miller 7
Danny Burke 8
Bobby Waddell 9
Jim Kinsella 10
Andy Waddell 11

Bench
12 Alan Munro
 Peter McQuade 12

Substitutions
None. None.

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

W Mullan (Referee)



Match Report

Clydebank Press

Never before have I seen such an extraordinary display of refereeing at Kilbowie as we had against East Fife. On at least two occasions the referee did not take action which seemed appropriate when things went wrong. One of his decisions may have cost Clydebank a goal.

That was when, in the 57th minute, centre half Fallon passed back to Dick Madden in goal. Unfortunately the ball failed to reach Madden and Bobby Waddell came in for a shot.

The goal was lying wide open and keeper Madden had to take drastic measures to prevent a goal; he caught Waddell's ankle as he ran past.

Of course, ref WJ Mullan awarded a penalty. Before the kick was taken keeper Madden pointed out to the referee that his right arm had been injured during the foul.

Despite this the referee ordered the penalty to be taken. Centre half Guild took the kick, and needless to say put it into the net past Dick Madden's bad side.

Only after all this did the referee call on trainer Maurice Friel of Clydebank to attend to Madden's injured arm.

The other incident happened near the end of the game. Hay of Clydebank, and Rae of the visitors had been niggling one another for some time and at one point came very near to blows, following a short argument. The referee failed to take action or even to speak to the players.

True to form over the past few months, Bankies played a marvellous first half in this match then dropped away to nothing in the second half.

Clydebank opened the scoring only six minutes from the start. The goal came from inside-right Love who collected a brilliant cross from the right wing , ten yards out, and sent the ball high into the East Fife net.

Both teams were finding it difficult down the north side of the pitch where heavy rain had caused an ankle deep puddle.

The Steedman's may have been wiser to equip their outside men with aqualungs instead of football boots.

This part of the pitch was avoided like the plague and when the ball did land there, it gave a satisfying "thunk" and stopped dead, as did the players.

Clydebank held on to their lead throughout the first half and were actually walloping the East Fife team. Shots from Caskie, Mitchell, Hawkshaw and Hay might easily have increased the home lead, had it not been for East Fife's keeper, Gorman.

As far as the Clydebank team is concerned, the second half is hardly worth mentioning. They were not a patch on the way they came out for the first half.

East Fife's equaliser came in the 54th minute when right half Borthwick passed in to Bobby Waddell, at centre, who sent the ball under Dick Madden.

Three minutes later East Fife went into the lead with controversial penalty previously mentioned.

After this it was all East Fife. The Clydebank players seemed to have lost all inclination to play for a win as a result the visitors ran rings round them.

Goal no. 3 was also Bobby Waddell's hat-trick. Again this was a somewhat controversial goal. Inside-right Burke of East Fife took the ball through the Clydebank defence and looked offside just as Bobby Waddell ran onto the ball.

Waddell then ran past keeper Madden to score. If he was not offside he must have been very near it.

Bankies had no fight let in them and when East Fife scored yet again in the closing minute of the match, it came as no surprise. Again Bobby Waddell was the man behind the goal when he hammered home a Miller, right wing pass, from close in.

Motherwell Times

Bobby Waddell was the star of East Fife's fifth successive win on Saturday when he scored three of his side's goals in their 4-1 win over Clydebank.

The ex-Bradford man led the line brilliantly in a second half display by the Fifers which must out them right back in among The promotion favourites.

East Fife demolished "Bankies" despite being a goal down at half-time and producing very little in the first half-in a second forty-five minutes which saw the Methil men in tantalising mood backed up with scoring power which the Bayview faithful thought had deserted Methil for a long spell at the start of the season.

Heavy overnight rain made the Clydebank pitch very heavy and conditions were difficult. In fact, it was the heavy park which seemed to bog the Fifers down in the opening stages.

They had a spell of pressure from the kick-off but it produced little in the way of scoring opportunities and it came to an abrupt halt in the sixth minute, when Clydebank scored a shock opener.

The Fife defence retreated too far and inside-right Love took full advantage of the chance he was offered just outside the penalty area and cracked a great shot past the diving Gorman.

This goal produced even more pressure in the home side's half but the Fifers continued to get bogged down particularly on the left, where the field conditions were at their worst.

Bert Miller and Dave Clarke managed to get through with a couple of good efforts when gaps appeared in a rather shaky looking Clydebank defence, but keeper Madden dealt confidently with them.

Bert Miller had a good chance to put the game back on level footing, but he shot over while in a good position following a corner kick.

At the other end, O'Brien and Hay worked their way into the Fife penalty area, but the slippery pitch baulked their chance of adding to the Clydebank lead. As the half wore on and the Fifers tried desperately to get back on level terms, they found it more difficult to come to grips with the ground conditions.

Bobby Waddell, however, almost notched the equaliser just before the interval, but his shot was saved in the most unorthodox manner by Madden, who held the ball between his legs.

"Bankies" held on to their one-goal lead until the interval, but after the restart it was quite obvious this slender lead would be short-lived.

The Fifers came out to play fast attacking football which always threatened the home defence and it only took eight minutes for the Clydebank lead to disappear.

Borthwick took the ball down the right to the bye-line and pulled back a neat ball into the tracks of Bobby Waddell who promptly despatched it to the back of the net to change the whole complexion of the game. This was the goal the Fifers needed to settle their play and from this point on there was no real doubt about the final outcome.

Two minutes later the Methil men took the lead when Bobby Waddell was pulled down by keeper Madden as he was about to slip the ball into the net and Alan Guild made his usual clean-cut job of the resultant penalty kick.

Two goals to one up, the Fifers piled on the pressure and there was little the "Bankies" could do about it.

Bert Miller operated in the middle for most of the second half and it was the winger who engineered the Fifers' third goal. He beat two men ever so nicely and let Danny Burke through with a good chance, but the inside-man tried to sidefoot the ball into the net and was well off target with his shot.

Bobby Waddell was quick to spot the chance and he came storming in from the right to blast Burke's shot past Madden before the ball had a chance to cross the bye-line.

It was a brilliant opportunist goal and it was obvious that the ex-Bradford man was in the mood the Bayview faithful have wanted to see him in for a long time.

And still the Fifers continued to press looking for more goals. Bobby Waddell was always in the thick of it and he scored his hat-trick with only a minute left for play.

Brother Andy set the move up when he took a free kick on the left and pushed the ball through between two defenders to Bert Miller. The right winger took it to the line and pulled back a neat pass to Bobby Waddell running in, who repeated his earlier performance by blasting the ball past Madden to complete the scoring. It was a very impressive second half display by the Fifers with a lot of attractive attacking football and in this mood the Methil men will have to be considered back among the favourites when the promotion places are handed out.

They trail the league leaders, Motherwell, who look certain to go back up, by five points and have still to play two of the five clubs above them, East Stirling and Albion Rovers, both home and away.

This is a much more heartening situation for the Methil followers who only a matter of a few weeks ago were beginning to count their favourites right out of the running.



Squad Statistics (as at November 23rd, 1968)

1968-69 All Time
League Cups All
Dick Madden (GK) 14 - 6 - 56 -
Malcolm Henderson 4 - 5 - 33 -
Ernie Collumbine 15 - 52992
Ian Hawkshaw 159622111
Davie Mitchell 9 - 5 - 874
Jim Fallon 11 - 2 - 13 -
Tommy McGhee 2 - 0 - 896
Bobby Love 810 - 81
Dougie Hay 12 - 4 - 301
Jimmy Caskie 1323 - 223
Gerry O'Brien 13 - 6 - 22 -







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
23rd November 1968
Brechin City0-3Forfar Ath
Clydebank1-4East Fife
Cowdenbeath3-1Dumbarton
East Stirlingshire5-1Alloa Athletic
Hamilton Accies0-2Queen's Park
Montrose0-2Motherwell
Stenhousemuir1-3Berwick Rangers
Stirling Albion1-1Albion Rovers
Stranraer0-2Ayr Utd

League Table (as at November 23rd, 1968)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Motherwell 13 12 0 1 +41 24
2. Albion Rovers 15 10 3 2 +6 23
3. Stirling Albion 14 10 1 3 +13 21
4. Forfar Ath 14 9 2 3 +17 20
5. East Stirlingshire 14 9 1 4 +25 19
6. Queen of South 15 8 3 4 +16 19
7. East Fife 14 8 3 3 +8 19
8. Ayr Utd 14 7 3 4 +11 17
9. Stranraer 13 6 3 4 +6 15
10. Queen's Park 15 6 2 7 -4 14
11. Berwick Rangers 16 5 3 8 -9 13
12. Montrose 16 6 1 9 -10 13
13. Hamilton Accies 15 4 3 8 -11 11
14. Clydebank 15 2 6 7 -15 10
15. Brechin City 14 4 1 9 -9 9
16. Cowdenbeath 15 3 3 9 -16 9
17. Alloa Athletic 15 3 2 10 -12 8
18. Dumbarton 15 3 1 11 -19 7
19. Stenhousemuir 14 2 1 11 -38 5