St. Mirren 2 v 0 Clyde

"The better team won on the day" was the gist of Manager Graham Roberts comments after this match, with a goal in each half giving the Paisley side the three points.

The first goal came in the twenty-seventh minute via a well-taken Stewart Kean penalty, after Kean was adjudged to have been fouled by Chris Higgins. John Sutton's close range header midway through the second half doubled Saints' lead, a lead they did not look like surrendering.

It was Clyde that looked to have taken the lead in the fourth minute. A Clyde free kick was nodded across goal by Craig McKeown, but the referee ruled that Tom Brighton's close-range header had not crossed the goal line after all, despite Clyde protests, the ball finally being gathered by St Mirren goalkeeper Chris Smith.

Clyde certainly looked the livelier lot for the first twenty minutes at least, with the Saints backline looking decidedly shaky under pressure. However in the twenty-seventh minute it was the Cyde rearguard that looked shaky when a long punt by keeper Smith caused indecisiveness as the ball was allowed to bounce, Chris Higgins found himself on the wrong side of the nippy Kean and in the tangle Kean went down.

"We gave away a sloppy first goal,