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RECORD
SCORES
When
Dundee Harp beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 in a Scottish Cup First Round tie on
Saturday September 12th 1885 there was a disagreement between
the match referee – who thought 37 goals had been scored – and the
Harp club secretary who believed the score was 35-0. The ref accepted the
lower figure and the score was sent off to the Scottish FA with Dundee
Harp officials surely believing they had a record which would last for
years. Amazingly though on the same day in the same competition just 20
miles away Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 and they are still in the record
books as the top score in any first-class match in Britain. John
Petrie’s 13 goals in that match also ranks as the top individual score
in Britain.
Aberdeen side Bon Accord were in the competition by mistake. They were in
fact the Orion Cricket Club who mistakenly had received from the Scottish
FA an invitation that should have been sent to Orion FC to enter the
Scottish Cup. Taking the opportunity to try a different sport they adopted
the name Bon Accord, turning up at the match without proper playing kit
before being given a true footballing lesson. The recorded scoreline was
36-0 but the referee Dave Stormont had disallowed a number of good goals
to keep the scoreline to below 40.
Two seasons later Arbroath hosted the real Orion FC in a Scottish Cup
First Round tie – with the scoreline being a far more respectable 18-0!
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Not
many clubs can boast that their record victory was achieved in a
European tie, fewer still that 8 different players scored goals in that
victory. However that was achieved by Swansea City when they beat Sliema
Wanderers 12-0 in a European Cup-Winners Cup First Round First Leg match
on Wednesday 15th September 1982. The Welsh Cup winners goals against the
Maltese opposition were scored by Jeremy Charles (2), Jimmy Loveridge (2),
Colin Irwin, Bob Latchford, Dzemal Hadziabdic, Ante Rajkovic, Nigel
Stevenson plus an eleven minute hat-trick from substitute Ian Walsh.
That total was also the
highest score by a Welsh side in any European match and after Swansea won
the second leg 5-0 a fortnight later the aggregate score of 17-0 was
another record for a Welsh side.
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