Morton 6
Clydebank 0
League (Division 2)

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Morton 

6 - 0

Clydebank

League (Division 2)
Saturday, October 1st, 1966
Cappielow. Att. 3,173
3:00 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
Walter Borthwick (3)
Walter Borthwick (24)
Walter Borthwck (25)
Joe Mason (34)
Billy Grey (39)
Joe Harper (65) 		None.

Team Managers
Hal Stewart Jack Steedman

Starting Eleven
1 Erik Sorensen
2 John Boyd
3 John Loughlan
4 Billy Grey
5 Hugh Strachan
6 Jim Kennedy
7 Joe Harper
8 Jack Bolton
9 Joe Mason
10 Walter Borthwick
11 Tommy Ewing 		Ronnie Wilson 1
Graham Small 2
Donald McDonald 3
Eddie Jenkins 4
John McGill 5
Tommy McGhee 6
Ernie Collumbine 7
Billy Horn 8
John Cummings 9
Willie McCallum 10
Alex Stewart 11

Bench
12 John Madsen John Wark 12

Substitutions
John Madsen -> Tommy Ewing John Wark for Tommy McGhee

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

W Anderson (Referee)
RP Kennedy & J Rodger (Assistants)





Match Report

Clydebank Press


Don't let the scoreline mislead you. The Bankies were not all that bad. They just happened to Meet Morton in one of their most invincible moods. But it will be a day Clydebank will not easily forget. First of all, their bus broke down and the players had to be taken to the park in an open van. Not the nicest of experiences on a wet day.

Then, only three minutes after the start, which was delayed for 15 minutes pending the arrival of the Bankies team, Borthwick struck for Morton.

He got another in 24 minutes and his hat-trick on the 25th

But between times McDonald, the Bankies left back had scare Morton with a tremendous free kick from the edge of the box. His shot curled at the goal and Collumbine was only a fraction out in trying to make a connection.

Then Sorenson, the Morton keeper, had to smother the ball as Collumbine came racing in for a pass from Cummings.

Many other teams would have buckled under such persistent pressure as Morton were applying, but Clydebank impressed in midfield and right-half Jenkins could take the greatest credit for a spirited performance.

McGhee, at left-half was also impressive and it was a blow when he was injured in the second half, at a time when they were showing signs of getting over their first half blues.

Jenkins found Cummings with a neatly squared pass but the centre's shot was punched out by Sorenson.

Then, in the 34th minute Morton's top scorer Mason got in on the act when he headed in a cross from Boyd, a right back with an attacking urge.

Gray, at right back got Morton's fifth in 39 minutes and Harper, the Greenock team's 17 year old right winger got the sixth.

Bankies obviously have the material in the making. They demonstrated by their second half performance in not letting Morton net more than one goal – that by Harper in the 65th minute – that their defence is not so bad as the 6-0 scoreline might suggest. But they are patently in need of a goal getter. Too many of their forwards pass the buck or hit the ball by instinct rather than planned accuracy.

Keeper Wilson should not be condemned. He brought off many clever saves, and, without him, the Bankies might have been more humbled.

After the game Jack Steedman said, "The fact that the bus broke down made no difference to our play. If we had come in Rolls Royces, Morton would still have beaten us."

Greenock Telegraph

With three goals in 25 minutes, Walter Borthwick, a stand-in for the injured Morris Stevenson at inside-left, put Morton on the victory road and things looked so easy for the Cappielow boys that the final score of six goals might have been doubled.

But, once again, there was that relaxing tendency in the second half a failing that must surely be overcome before Morton meet really stern opposition.

The first goal for Borthwick came in the third minute of the game after Mason and Harper had both had "stabs" at trying to get the ball into the net from close quarters during a goalmouth scramble. Shots by these two were blocked and, indeed, Wilson, the Clydebank 'keeper, seemed to have the ball covered when Borthwick prodded it away from him into the net.

There had been a fright for Morton before this when Boyd, at right-back, conceded a free kick to the Bankies, and MacDonald, taking the kick, sent in a sizzling shot which had a bend in it and Collumbine, racing in from the right, was just a fraction off connecting with it.

Then, immediately after Borthwick's goal came an escape for the Bankies. A free kick by Ewing from near the left corner flag was headed narrowly past by Mason. On top of that a Harper shot was deflected for a corner by McGill and the Clydebank centre-half was on the spot to head out Ewing's flag kick.

A pass from Bolton was seized upon by Ewing whose well-intended shot hit the crossbar.

Clydebank moved about the middle of the park with energy and skill but they were too easily robbed of possession and it was very seldom, indeed, that they were seen in an attacking role.

Morton, on the other hand, were always on the move, but the next scare was at the Morton end when Boyd headed out a corner by the Bankies left-winger Stewart, and McGhee, a hard-working left-half, who was later injured and had to be assisted off, headed the ball back into the goal area again and Sorensen had to punch out in the presence of Collumbine.

Twenty-four minutes had gone before Borthwick got his second goal. Boyd, up with the Morton attack, raced for the bye-line and cut the ball across to the inside-left who shot it into the net.

Only a minute later came Borthwick's hat-trick, getting his goal this time from a Harper service.

So far Joe Mason had been having the worst of luck with his headers but in the 34th minute Boyd went up again to the bye-line and crossed expertly for the Morton centre to nod in the fourth.

At this stage it certainly looked as if Morton were poised to execute a double-figured score. They were brushing the Bankies aside and besieging their goal continuously.

In the 39th minute a corner came over from Ewing and Gray netted with the back of his head to give Morton a five-goal advantage at the interval.

Bankies could do nothing against such pressure as Morton were exerting and their defence was literally standing still when Mason made rapid ground on the left and was working his way in towards goal when the ball broke away from him, hit a defender and bounced out to young Harper, who shot into the net from close range.

This one came in the 55th minute and signalled the end of the scoring. In fact some of the Morton play after that came in for criticism from their fans, the passing at times being very poor and the pace a lot slacker than it had been. If the Bankies had possessed the material up front to profit from this they might easily have cut Morton's lead, but they were too easily jiggered by Morton's defence in which Gray, Loughlan, and Strachan take top marks.

Morton were without the services of Ewing throughout the second half. He suffered strained leg ligaments and had to be replaced by Madsen. Also, the Bankies left-half McGhee was injured and Wark brought on as a substitute.

As the result of their win Morton came within striking distance of the top of the league table. They can draw level with Raith Rovers the league leaders by defeating Stenhousemuir tomorrow night at Cappielow and meet the Rovers, also at home, on Saturday in what should be a testing encounter.



Squad Statistics (as at October 1st, 1966)

1966-67 All Time
League Cups All
Ronnie Wilson (GK) 7 - 5 - 26 -
Graham Small 8 - 5 - 242
Donald McDonald 7 - 5 - 12 -
John McGill 5 - 51292
Ernie Collumbine 8 - 3 - 11 -
John Cummings 5 - 53103
Eddie Jenkins 8 - 3 - 221
Tommy McGhee 814 - 222
Willie McCallum 8 - 51131
Alex Stewart 4 - 4 - 10 -
Billy Horn 2 - 0 - 166
John Wark (sub) 5 - 0 - 26 -







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
28th September 1966
Morton4-1Brechin City
1st October 1966
Albion Rovers5-1East Stirlingshire
Alloa Athletic3-3Arbroath
Berwick Rangers0-1Hamilton Accies
Dumbarton2-2Cowdenbeath
Forfar Ath2-2Stenhousemuir
Montrose0-0Stranraer
Morton6-0Clydebank
Queen of South6-0Brechin City
Queen's Park4-1East Fife
Raith Rovers4-1Third Lanark

League Table (as at October 1st, 1966)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Raith Rovers 7 6 1 0 +11 13
2. East Fife 8 6 0 2 +8 12
3. Morton 6 5 1 0 +17 11
4. Queen's Park 8 5 1 2 +15 11
5. Queen of South 8 4 3 1 +12 11
6. Hamilton Accies 8 5 1 2 +8 11
7. Arbroath 8 4 2 2 +11 10
8. Stranraer 8 4 2 2 +3 10
9. Albion Rovers 8 4 1 3 +2 9
10. Alloa Athletic 8 4 1 3 +2 9
11. Montrose 6 3 2 1 +7 8
12. Third Lanark 8 3 2 3 -1 8
13. Berwick Rangers 8 2 3 3 0 7
14. Forfar Ath 8 2 2 4 -15 6
15. Stenhousemuir 7 2 1 4 -6 5
16. Brechin City 7 2 1 4 -10 5
17. Dumbarton 8 1 2 5 -6 4
18. Cowdenbeath 7 0 1 6 -12 1
19. East Stirlingshire 8 0 1 7 -22 1
20. Clydebank 8 0 0 8 -24 0