Written by Administrator Monday, 17 September 2007 11:56

Sorry for the lack of updates but time has been short. The house and back garden have been getting a makeover, which was tiring and very detrimental to my bank balance.

Anyway, on the Dumbarton front, things are rolling along in their usual fashion. A win here, a defeat there. We're not looking like a team that's going to be challenging for promotion but there's nothing new about that.

On Saturday, Sons went down at home to Stenhousemuir. I saw the first goal go through on the Sky Sports vidiprinter after three minutes and thought "Excellent. An early goal. Should be able to control the game". But one minute later Stenny equalised and it was "Shite, we're going to get beat". Which indeed we did. But not according the Scotland on Sunday. Remarkably, their match report has Dumbarton and Stenny playing out a 1-1 draw. Here's the full report below before they change it. Here's the link

"DUMBARTON 1 STENHOUSEMUIR 1

DUMBARTON and Stenhousemuir both lost ground in the Third Division table, playing out a lacklustre 1-1 draw.

Robert Campbell gave the Sons an early lead after just three minutes. He was set up by Brian McPhee, making his debut after missing the start of the season through injury. McPhee flicked the ball into the path of Campbell who bundled home from a couple of yards.

But the lead was short-lived as Steven Hampshire equalised for Stenny less than 60 seconds later. Paul Tyrell launched the ball in the box and Hampshire chipped it into the goal.

Dumbarton would have taken the lead again had it not been for some excellent goalkeeping from John Hillcoat and at the other end Hampshire could have snatched a win for the visitors but his last-minute effort came off the post."

Pretty poor performance for Scotland's leading quality Sunday newspaper, eh