iw1955

The attendance was unbelievable but the st mirren views on things are a bit deluded. Yes they were running away with the first division that year and had gubbed united in the earlier round and had a bunch of players who were mainly young and quite good. They had a young striker called Torrance who had looked really good against united and i think it would be fair to say that the tackle Stewart McLaren put in on him after 5 seconds was a corker. However, what the St Mirren lot fail to mention was that the crudest, dirtiest player on the park that day was the St Mirren right back called Beckett who was even worse than Miller and McLaren. They also fail to mention that class will always show in the end and Willie Pettigrew and Vic Davidson proved that to win the game, the end result actually flattered St Mirren in the end.