From: mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (john bell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: : Ayr United v St.Mirren
Date: 16 Dec 92 09:28:11 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <BzAx5K.EBK@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>, dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
> mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (john bell) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Dec8.151214.1377@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, k8wq@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (MCCALL) writes:
>>> 
>>> Could someone please give a more detailed report of what happened on 
>>> Saturday at Somerset Park, re Ayr United v St. Mirren.  To win 2-0 was a
>>> wee bit much for me but for St. Mirren to get 3 players sent off !?! A near
>>> riot at Somerset ?  This intrigues me as last time there was nearly a riot
>>> was when they increased the price of the pies.
>>> 
>>well the story goes something like this....
> 
>>in the first half, st mirren were all over united, but couldn't score, then,
>>in first half injury time, Ally Graham scored for Ayr. 
> 
> A bit more..Graham promptly dropped his shorts in front of the fans.
> 
>>The second half was
>>fairly quiet until the last eight minutes, when saints had a player sent off
>>for a foul on Gordon Mair. 
> 
> Paul Lambert it was. He'd already been booked It was a fairly wild attempt
> and probably deserved the second booking.
> 
>>The saints players thought mair had 'acted' to get
>>the guy sent off. 
> 
> As did most of the St Mirren fans.
> 
>>Then Tommy walker scored for ayr to make it 2-0, then saints
>>Barry Lavety was sent off for, you'll never guess, another foul on Mair.
> 
> Far less a foul than Lambert's tackle and Lavety hadn't been booked.
> At this point the St Mirren fans started chanting 'Cheat!" at Mair.
> Presumably the ref thought it was retaliation.
> 
>> Chic
>>Charnley became saints 3rd player to get a red card for an
>>off-the-ball-incident. ie, he punched out someone. That's about it really.
> 
> Inevitable I suppose. It was for spitting although no one apart from the ref
> saw it.

it seems saints have now sacked charnley...

who the hell will take the risk of buying him?

> This prompted outrage amongst the fans who started throwing stuff onto the 
> pitch forcing play to stop.
> 
> After the match, Jimmy Bone cast doubts on the ref's parentage and was involved
> in some sort of scuffle.
> His main complaint was that an Ayrshire referee shouldn't be refereeing a
> game involving an Ayrshire club.

what's he got to complain about?!!

dundee derbies were refereed by a guy from dundee for several years
and we always get glasgow refs for rangers/ celtic matches here

> 
> Apologies to Stewart (and John for using his posting) for not posting this
> sooner. I had a copy of the match report from the local Paisley paper (very
> unbiased of course :-) ) but our scanner's bust.
> 
well our mailer has bust as well...

> Dave
> 
> Well..looks like the Saints are face life in Div2 next year :-(
> They play Hamilton on Saturday who are one point behind them but with a
> game in hand. A loss to Hamilton will drop them down to 4th place and a big
> gap is starting to open up at the top.
> 
> Brechin..here we come!!

let's hope so

> 
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