Sons First Top Flight Win in Fifty Years
Posted in Dumbarton FC, Nostalgia at 20:00 on 24 October 2018
Someone posted a link to this on Pie and Bovril.
I didn’t know this footage existed.
Muirton Park, Perth, October 7th, 1972. St Johnstone 0-2 Dumbarton. Sons first win in the top division since 1922.
I was there!
Muirton Park is long since gone and is now the site of an ASDA store.
Long gone too are Sons’ chances of a place in the top flight. Money – or its chasing by the “big” clubs – put paid to that.
Tags: Asda, Muirton Park, Perth, Pie and Bovril, St Johnstone
Eric Brown
25 October 2018 at 14:12
What struck me was how well attended the game was. Rare home-movie footage, that.
jackdeighton
25 October 2018 at 16:50
Eric,
Yes. The price of football was relatvely cheap then as I recall, with not much else to attract the fan on a Saturday afternoon.
I was on the terracing behind the goal at the far end. I had a great view of Tom McAdam scoring his first goal in senior football, climbing above the defender to head it in.