Killie Thrash Thistle

Meadowbank 1 Kilmarnock 8
(Scot Lge Div1, Match XX, Meadowbank Stadium, April 10th 1991)

Killie's biggest away win during the "modern era" was a midweek end-of-season match on April 10th 1991 watched by just over 1,000 fans. A tight game was the general forecast. But when two goals from Calum Campbell wrapped around one from Billy Stark put Killie 3-0 up with less than fifteen minutes played, that prognosis was dead and buried.

Bobby Williamson  notched up Killie's fourth and fifth before Trevor Smith made it 6-0 at the break.
 

Tommy Burns  added a seventh then a huge cheer went around the ground as Meadowbank pulled one back.

Meadowbank's scoreboard operator did a good job of keeping the match interesting, by  frequently providing the fans an update of when Thistle had last conceded 4 at home, 5 at home etc. When it got to 7 he indicated the Meadowbank had NEVER conceded EIGHT at home..... so......

Tommy Burns  then grabbed another to make the final score 8-1 to ensure the Meadowbank scoreboard operator went home with some new horror Meadowbank history.

This was/is Killie's best away win in modern times.

Kilmarnock: Geddes, Montgomerie, Spence, McStay, Flexney, (Brayshaw), Stark, (Burgess), Jenkins, Burns, Williamson, Smith, Campbell

Attendance: 1,107

Fans Match Memories

A guy came in and sat behind me and asked the score 3-0 was the reply and had to be pointed in the direction of the scoreboard before saying a few bad words about the Edinburgh traffic, at the end did the scoreboard operator not show a sense of humour , be dammed if I can remember what he wrote anyone else remember,.... Buggsy

Buggsy , I was that man , came in 15 mins late and had missed 3 goals, swore a little as I thought that would be just my luck for us to win 3 - 0 and to have missed all the goals . Seem to remember a supporters long jump competition at half time....ASSH

Funniest bit for me was that my mates who coerced me into following Killie a few years previous were all night shift and couldn't make the game...boy were they pissed aff! We were sponsored by Ian Makin who owned the Riverside Inn at the time and he was on the bus with us and let us have the run of the pub when we got home. I remember falling asleep in the bar at one point and waking up a short time later and the Valley boys were still drinking...so I joined in again. At about three in the morning the hostess arrived with a huge bowl of chips for us and then a soda water gun fight ensued. We left at around 6am and passed some of the guys who had been on the bus with us on their way to their work. I jumped on a milk float to get a lift home to Crookedholm.
Now those were the days! .... baz

I remember the queue for the phone in the main stand at half time. Think all the calls started "you'll never believe this, but . . . . ".....The Ref

I  remember the Meadowbank fans singing 'we want 2, we want 2' they were 7-1 down at the time. Students with a sense of homour all 20 of them.... Bono-Vox

Announcer said that if Killie scored again there would not be enough room on the scoreboard for the name of the scorer... Musichead