From: caar14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Subject: Scottish Results 29th Aug 92 plus Airdrie v Celtic Report
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:29:34 GMT

Tues 25th/Wed 26th August
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Skol Cup Fourth Round                    Skol Cup Semi Final Draw
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      Dundee United 2-3 Rangers          Rangers v St Johnstone
                   (aet)                 Celtic  v Aberdeen
            Falkirk 1-4 Aberdeen         Both to be played at Hampden
         Kilmarnock 1-3 St Johnstone
Heart of Midlothian 1-2 Celtic

Saturday August 29th
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Premier Division                     First Division     
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              Pl  W  D  L   F  A Pt                Pl  W  D  L   F  A Pt
Dundee United  6  4  1  1   7  4  9  Raith Rovers   6  4  2  0  12  2 10
Rangers        6  3  2  1  10  6  8  Morton         6  4  0  2  10  4  8
Hearts         6  3  2  1   7  3  8  Dunfermline    6  3  1  2  10  8  7
Celtic         6  2  4  0   7  4  8  Kilmarnock     6  3  1  2   7  5  7
Aberdeen       6  3  1  2   9  7  7  St.Mirren      6  2  3  1   5  7  7
Partick Th     6  2  2  2  11  9  6  Meadowbank Th  6  3  0  3  10  8  6
St.Johnstone   6  1  3  2   7  6  5  Hamilton Acad  6  2  2  2   8  6  6
Hibernian      6  1  3  2   4  7  5  Stirling Alb   6  2  2  2   6  7  6
Motherwell     6  1  2  3   6  8  4  Ayr United     6  1  3  2   6  6  5
Dundee         6  1  2  3  10 14  4  Clydebank      6  1  3  2   8 11  5
Airdrieonians  6  1  2  3   3  7  4  Dumbarton      6  2  0  4   7 13  4
Falkirk        6  2  0  4   4 10  4  Cowdenbeath    6  0  1  5   7 19  1

Second Division                      Highland League 
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              Pl  W  D  L   F  A Pt                Pl  W  D  L   F  A Pt 
Forfar Ath     4  3  1  0  11  3  7  Devernvale     5  5  0  0  15  2 15 
Brechin City   4  3  1  0  10  2  7  Cove Rangers   5  5  0  0  16  3 15
Clyde          4  3  1  0  10  4  7  Lossiemouth    5  4  0  1  19  8 12
Stranraer      4  2  2  0   7  4  6  Ross County    5  4  0  1  13 10 12
Arbroath       4  1  2  1   7  7  4  Caledonian     5  3  2  0  14  6 11
Albion Rovers  4  2  0  2   6  6  4  Elgin City     5  3  1  1  22  8 10
East Fife      4  1  2  1   5  6  4  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Berwick Rngrs  4  2  0  2   7  9  4
Alloa Athletic 4  2  0  2   5  8  4
Queen of South 4  1  1  2   5 11  3
East Stirling  4  1  0  3   4  8  2
Montrose       4  1  0  3   4  8  2
Queen's Park   4  0  1  3   5  8  1
Stenhousemuir  4  0  1  3   4  8  1

Leading Premier scorers (includes Skol Cup): 
9 - McCoist(Rangers), 8 - Shearer(Aberdeen), Wright(St Johnstone)

PREMIER: Airdrie     1-1  Celtic         Partick Th  6-3 Dundee
         Boyle 63         Payton 19      Shaw 22,37      Dodds 7,74
         att:10,500                      51,57(pen)      Gilzean 38
                                         Paterson 79(og) att:5,429
                                         Briton 88
 
         Dundee Utd  2-0  Falkirk        Rangers     3-1 Aberdeen
         Fergusson 46,82  att:6,444      Durrant 53      Aitken 28
                                         McCoist 61      att:41,636
                                         Mikhailichenko 88

         Hearts      1-0  Motherwell     St Johnstne 1-1 Hibernian
         Berry 40         att:7,285      Wright 74(pen)  McIntyre 56
                                         att:6,017

FIRST:   Dumbarton   1-2  Raith Rovers   Kilmarnock  1-0 Meadowbamk Th
         72               46,57          87              
         Dunfermline 1-3  Clydebank      Morton      1-0 Cowdenbeath
         38               69,83,85       57
         Hamilton Ac 1-1  Ayr United     St. Mirren  0-0 Stirling Al
         87               42 

SECOND:  Alloa Ath   1-5  Clyde          E.Stirling  1-2 Q.O.S
         70               23,24,49,65,86 18(og)          54,70
         Arbroath    2-1  Queen's Park   Montrose    1-3 Berwick Rngrs
         78,85            68             41              15,74,90
         Brechin Cty 2-0  Albion Rovers  Stenhousemr 1-2 Stranraer
         60,74                           82              41,44
         East Fife   0-3  Fofar Athletic
                          3,27,62

P&J Highland League
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Caledonian  1-1 Keith             Cove Rangers 5-0 Nairn County
Devernvale  3-0 Clachnacuddin     Elgin City   4-2 Forres Mechanics
Fraserburgh 2-4 Buckie Thistle    Inverness Th 4-1 Rothes
Lossiemouth 2-1 Fort William      Peterhead    2-2 Brora Rangers
Ross County 3-2 Huntly

Airdrieonians v Celtic
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Representatives of both Cologne and Sparta Prague were at this match
to check out their respective European opponents.
Airdrie were first to come close to scoring when a 20 yard dipping
volley from Stewart was pushed over the crossbar by Marshall in goals.
Celtic were to get first blood however after a glorious diagonal ball
from Celtic's Polish defender split open the Airdrie defence allowing
Payton to knock the ball past Martin and then slot the ball into the 
empty net. Airdrie began to come back into the match towards half time,
but overall the Celts thoroughly deserved their one goal interval
lead. The second half was a totally different story however with the
diamonds clearly in command. The home team equalised after a Coyle
cross was totally missed by Airdrie substitute Conn causing the ball
to fall to Boyle who shot past Marshall. In an action packed final
five minutes Airdrie came ever so close to inflicting Celtic's first
defeat of the season. Balfour waltzed passed three Celtic defenders,
only to see his shot pushed over the bar in a superb finger tip save
from Marshall. From the resulting corner Balfour then had a header 
stopped on the line by McStay resulting in the ball fall to Conn who
saw his shot cleared off the line. Conn clearly thought a hand had
been used in clearing his effort but instead of awarding a penalty
the referee gave Conn his marching orders for making his protests a
bit too strongly.

Man of the match was Airdrie's big fireman(he's part-time) Evan Balfour.
Referee Timmons had a most appauling match. It was mentioned to me at
the game that this particular official was removed from the English 
refereeing list for incompetence and so came back north.

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I've corrected the few mistakes that were in the league tables that I posted 
last week.
Ronnie.
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