be gazing at glazing by Ill LEUCHARS GLAZING 11\ ' I I :-.c·111tb ll 11' \ IIIH < l I' TODAY'S TEAMS ",pou,011 ·,I h1 1:ol!RARA ftUII ~ TAYPORT CAMELON from from Fraser MANN Alan BANNER Paul REILLY Gary SMITH Grant PATERSON Derek HASTON Mark SPALDING George FAIRLEY Andy SOMMERVILLE Graham WOOD Sean WILKIE Ronnie SCOTT Jimmy HUNTER Christopher MACKENZIE Billy COVENTRY Bobby BARR Hamish MACKAY Alan MCGONlGLE Dave REILLY Scott HENRY Jackie DEVINE Tom MACDONALD Andy DOLAN Paul SlMPSON Grant MILLER Peter MACARTHUR Ewan CAMERON Martin FERRIE KeYinTHOMS Fraser GUTHRIE Gary LAMONT James ELLIS Scott MCINTOSH 'tcd .. :,'• ;,e4 ..,. .... Mr. J. Fleming Linesmen Mr. A. Seymour (both) ,:!te (Glasgow) Mr. T. Smith (Glasgow) SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 1993 O.V.D. SCOTISH JUNIOR CUP SECOND ROUND REPLAY TAYPORT V CAMELON KICK OFF 1.30 PM. PORT PROG '93-94 No. 5 TODAY'S GAME TO BE PLAYEO TO A FINISH 'Today's ?rfatcli is jointfy sponsored 6y And to those firms and individualswho sponsor matches and match balls Centre Car Company, Cand[e Lane, (l)undee throughout the season. Interestedin sponsorship?Please contact and Secretary, Treasureror any member of the committee. rzi1y6ridgerBar, P ertfz <.R_pad,(l)urufec Front cover pie: Crowd scene from last year 's Junior Cup Final v Glenafton. Pie reproduced by l<ind permission Courier & Advertiser. HOWTHE NATIONAL PRESS REPORTED THE JUNIOR SENSATION OF THE DECADE When the Port Pr{)\J hint ed earlier this sea s on that the CU11U1ockmanaqer's jacket was on a shakky nail, little did we, or any one else for that matter, env i saqe resentment the"re is a puzzle. feel pressure and get carried that the appointment would spark off Ayrshire 's own brand of fireworks at the The precise reasons for Knox's away but I think of football as be<Jinning of November. This is how •seem.ANDON SIJNDAY' reported the matter. departure from the club this 1m outlet. It gets me away from summer are not a matter of the grind of the working week." HERE used to be just one very next day. The rivalry public record. The talk in Only a distinctive man could doubt about Willie Knox means everything. Go into a . Auchinleck is of plots and regard .the Cumnock post as a T. · - Auchinleck Talbot fans pub in Cumnock and , say betrayal. form of recreation. The club would have an agreeable argu­ Auchinleck are not a bad team were boitpm of Ayrshire's First ment over .the precise number and you'll get the head knocked . It ,appears that the manager­ DivisiO.l,\}!'1d.had .not 'collected was at loggerheads with ·key • of trophies the manager had off your shoulders." a single' point · prior .to' yes­ won in 17 years'with the club. The villagesare so close that members of the club's com­ . terday's match with Saltcoats. •Knox.has the honours jotted they simply rub one another up mittee. Locals believe that he At least Knox had no selection down on an index card. It is the wrong way. Cumnock, by was denied funds to strengthen problems. There were only crammed .with writing, but the far the larger community, a side which had lost important eleven fit players. , • . ' tally appearsto tie 44. So much found Auchinleck's domi­ players. There are doubts about Cumnock, Junior . Cup win- silverware ought to have nation, which included five ners in .J989 ; ·are; .iiowever, bought the permanent affection KEVINMCCARRA Junior Cups under · Knox, the financial position of the shake hands and say goodbye. capable of far more and Knox, of the supporters. insufferable. For the smaller club. It was a dirty divorce." ~espite a,n unassuming man- Now though, Knox has pro­ on.a man branded village, ruined by the death of . The precise facts will never He found he · had become a ner, does not really suffer from voked the Ayrshire village to a the mining industry, this mas, be established but Knox's restless man. On Saturdar5, he meekness: •:1 have' faith in my fury which is likely to obliter­ tery was a source of joy. resentment is not . in doubt. At wou_ld watch games . 0 1?Y ito own :al?ility.':When J·first arr- ate any fond memories. ·There a traitor in the Recent upheaval has blighted the age of 56 he was unable to r~ahse th~y meant nothing ,to. ived :11f'Auchinleckthere ere was consternation when he relationships. In his job with accept the -summer's events as him. Back home, Knox ;was~n · · ortl' 12,r-f• I · h. ··.:~·' ,/!'{,;; ' resigned the manager's job just village where he an engineering firm, Knox is in a proper conclusion to his life the •·phone·•, to •"Dlinnachie;" , . Y ,~ ,~P ei~t ,~~PU!1~i.: , before the start of this season. the uneasy position of working in football.,. .,, ,,~r,··: checking up on'the''A,ilchinleck I :lf., A11~hinl~ks ,. \n~al>,itants ,.That , was . an , improbable was on:ce revered beside Henry Dumigan, the "I would have gladly' retired resulfahd noting their%1e-up," .are irat~ it may ,be because they event, .but Knox, has trumped Auchinleck secretary. Else­ in my own time but it was a . The cI u b ha d gone b. ut. 'th.. e powers~ . *II·'I,.,,~,, ..~ff1l1d •r•,. • ., of., ·. Knox's it' with ·the unthinkable. Last where, Malcolm Dunnachie, situation with the officials manager•~instincts were St!ll m ; Do those fa~s d d th t h · • Sunday, he agreed to take former president and corn-_ which forced me to resign. The , full working order. "I missed · . , , . rea _a . is charge . ,, of neighbouring reasons behind my leaving · all the patter at training as well . !Ory· ~\ 11·rc,l)!l8~ itself ,, this time to try and improve the side. · mittee member for 23 years, is .in the wrong, village?· .<\:·. · • Cumnock., Some liken this They were our fiercest rivals. I still trying to rearrange his were unsavoury. _We couldn't as the matches. I know you can ,r!~J'}:,;\~::ii':: .. ;-,.. ·:·,,, .. u, ·manoeuvre to Liam Brady re­ wouldn't say I ever hated them emotions after the upheaval. emerging as Rangers' manager. but I did envy the success they "Willie is still a personal So far, as Ayrshire people are enjoyed in the past and the friend of mine but I am concerned, though, Old Firm potential Cumnock still had." saddened by the manner in TAYSIDE MCEWANS LAGER LEAGUE DIVISION I enmity is just a tiff compared · Few others are capable of which this has happened. It to the feuding of Auchinleck such calm appraisal. Jamesie would have been more accept-· and Cumnock. Kirkland, now with Darvel, has able if he had retired when he . Never mind name-calling, it managed both Auchinleck and left Auchinleck. He is a free Guide to Current Form I is a fixture which also features Cumnock, though not in direct agent and can manage which-. sticks 'and stones. Even the succession. , The experience ever club he likes but I would Team Last 7 Results - all comoetitions Too Scorer occasional golf ball would be taught him that only a very · never have believed he: could Arbroath S.C. LWWLWLL Feeney - 7 hurled at the goalkeeper. Two precise form of achievement do this. Arbroath Vies WLLLLLW Markowski - 7 years ago, Cumnock vice­ could keep him in his post. "Cumnock are supposed to president· Jock Burns hit an "With Cumnock," he recalls, come here for a match at the Broughty Athletic DWDLWLL Donnelly - 7 Auchinleck player with the cor­ "I thought that winning a turn of the year. I would advise Carnoustie Panmure LDLDWW L Kelly - 10 ner-flag· after a game. How trophy a year would be satisfac­ Willie just to send his team and could Knox agree to work for tory. It wasn't. Pollok knocked stay at home himself." ' Downlield WDWWWWW Mitchell - 14 Burns and his committee? us out of the Junior Cup in Knox, though, will be in the Farrar Albion DLWLWLD Craig & Scott - 4 ~•we have been nose-to-nose, 1986 but Auchinleck beat them dug-out directly in front of the Forfar West End LDLLLWD Soutar - 10 shouting and bawling at one in the final. When I went to the Auchinleck support on that anot_!!!:J,~· says Knox, "but we Cumnock agm that summer day. "He's unflappable," says Lochee Harp WLWDWWW Higgins - 8 ~ we are the best thing for there were a lot of complaints, Kirkland. "He will just look at • Jcanfield Swifts DLLDWW L Cameron - 5 _..,oner anotlier at 'this moment. even though we had just had a them all and say, 'You've got Kinnoull WDWWDW L Mailer - 8 Cuimiock; were •_my ' main opp­ good S;CllSO'!( <ll•,'l f 1 , '•. short memories'." .. · onents~·f~r" 17• years. ·Because "I knew"then that my only Knox will not be·feeling'con­ North End LWWWWLW Gray - 4 the villages are only a mile hope was to win the Cup the trite. "I'll go there with my St Josephs WWWLDLL Heggie - 11 apart, we were always looking next year so we could match head held high," he declares. "I Devine - 11 over the wall at each other. what Auchinleck had just done. don't owe Auchinleck asingle Tayporl DWWWWWD ' ,"That ., helped Auchinleck We were knocked out in the thing." Violet L L LDWLD Smith - 7 'because it always motivated us fifth round. 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