SINCE Dumbarton's extraordinary feat of scoring six against
East Fife in the league on Saturday and six again versus Stenhousemuir
in the Stirlingshire Cup last night, one question has predominated. Have
Sons achieved that in consecutive matches before?
Club historian Jim McAllister
comments: "We have scored six apiece in successive fixtures before. It
happened on the 13th and 20th December 1958. The first result was 6-2
away to East Fife, and the second was 6-3 at home to Hamilton Accies.
There may be more, but this is certainly one instance."
By keeping
a clean sheet against the unfortunate Fifers, Sons therefore went one
better than the class of '58, of course. Indeed, Dumbarton have now
scored 15 goals in three games. Not quite three competitive games, however.
As
Jim again points out, strictly speaking "Stirlingshire Cup ties do not
count as they have different rules and are played under the auspicies of
the Stirlingshire Football Association and not the SFA/SFL."
Nor will anyone in the dressing room be getting too
carried away. After the international break on 3rd September, it's back
to tough Second Division action with successive home games against
Arbroath (10th) and Cowdenbeath (17th).
The lads certainly hope there will be big crowds to keep the momentum going and cheer them on to further success!
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