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The Scottish Cup journey called -- comes full circle. The circle began | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
last May. Celtic are the Scottish Cup winners, 2013. The most | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
unexpected cup journey came from Albion Rovers. Albion Rovers. The | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
romance of the Cup, United on the trip. Raith Rovers incredibly take | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
the lead. The magnificent journey continues. Scott Brown leathers home | :01:19. | :01:32. | |
Celtic's seven. And it is into the wall. The final four travelled to | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
Ibrox. Saint Johnstone are into their first-ever Scottish Cup final. | :01:44. | :01:57. | |
Dundee United have the lead. Ciftci gets Dundee United to the Scottish | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Cup final. The Scottish Cup circle is complete. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Good evening. Just reaching the Scottish Cup final has been a huge | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
achievement for St Johnstone. They've never done it before in | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
their 130 year history. They have never, ever won a major piece of | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
silverware. Would today be the day? There was also a massive occasion | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
for Dundee United as well, playing in front of their biggest ever | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
support. Hoping to win the trophy for a third time and cap the season | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
with a final flourish. With me tonight, two beaten -- beacons of | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
neutrality, Pat Nevin who played for neither side and Billy Dodds, who | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
played for both. Let's get to the action at Celtic Park. The usual | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
green was replaced by an sea of tangerine, black and white. | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Therefore us, the St Mirren striker Steven Thompson and match | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
commentator, Liam McLeod. The waiting is just about over for | :02:56. | :03:07. | |
St Johnstone and Dundee United. Uncharted territory for the Perth | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
side, who have always come up short in the last four until now. Tommy | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Wright with more than a little help from Stevie May, helped past their | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
semifinal hoodoo last month. Plotting their way towards a first | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
piece of major silverware, with the club is celebrating its 130th | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
birthday this year. The Scottish Cup sitting proudly in bed trophy | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
cabinet would be the perfect present. But it is a World Cup year. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
That means the omens are good for Dundee United. Both times they have | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
won this competition it has come just before a World Cup final, in | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
1994 and then in 2010. The names of Brewster, Conway and Goodwillie are | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
written in United folklore. Their pictures adorn the walls at | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Tannadice. The 2014 team will have gazed that those these last four | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
weeks, knowing they could be them. -- knowing it could be them. That is | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the Saint Johnstone team that beat Aberdeen in the semifinals. Dann and | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Millar were brilliant in the midfield. So were McQueen and | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
upfront. Their goals have been pivotal. Dillon and Watson along | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
with Gomis are the only survivors from the side that won four years | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
ago. Mackay-Steven is fit. Ciftci is through the middle. Lee Croft and | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Nigel Hasselbaink have to deal with missing out on a starting slot, as | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
do the much heralded youngsters, Gauld and Souttar, for United. The | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
referee is 41-year-old Graham Thompson. It is his third Scottish | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
Cup final, having presided over the 2009 and 2012 versions -- Craig | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Thomson. All set, so too, Tommy Wright. A big day for him, less than | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
a year after replacing Steve Lomas, his compatriot, as St Johnstone | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
manager. A wonderful atmosphere inside Celtic Park. 255 years of | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
combined history. Just the fourth time Saints and United have met in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the Scottish Cup. The Tangerines, in their new kit today. They are 2-1 up | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
on that particular head-to-head, and one of those was on the route to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
their 2010 triumph. This is the biggest clash between these two | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
Tayside rivals. Celtic Park is a sea of tangerine and black and blue and | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
white. Mackay-Steven, looking for the run of Armstrong. Dug out by | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
Dunne. But the spoon is finally getting a chance to play in this | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
final. -- Wotherspoon. May, the first touch of the ball for him. | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
Stevie May making a run, cuts inside. Always trying to get a shot | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
away. Robertsons, who has had the | :06:19. | :06:31. | |
wonderful 12-month period going from amateur player at Queen's Park to | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Scotland international and Scottish Cup finalists. An early test for | :06:35. | :06:47. | |
Mannus. Fabulous play from Dow. A fabulous ball again. I think Ciftci | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
meets a Porsche. -- Ciftci needs a push. | :06:54. | :07:30. | |
It has gone through to MacLean. He could not squeeze it through. | :07:31. | :07:43. | |
It comes onto the shoulder of Robertson, he takes a second. That | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
is what he was looking for. I don't know if the referee did not see it, | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
he has pulled him back. Support arriving. They know he is | :07:55. | :08:16. | |
capable of it, maybe not from that distance. It is his first shot, he | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
gets the shot away. People sit at the near post. -- he pulls it at the | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
near post. MacLean was onside. Well won back. What a save from | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Cierzniak. A superb overlap from East Anne. I don't think Stephen | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
MacLean can get it. It breaks and catch that sweetly. In the end, | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
tipped over the bar. A great move from St Johnstone. They have looked | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
the more dangerous of the two sides. They are real threat. Good at | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
defending them and good attacking, as Wotherspoon takes. It comes | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
across four Frazer Wright, who could not get purchase on it. I don't | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
think he sees it until late. The ball is not the best one, but it | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
finds its way right through. May fancies his chances against | :09:18. | :09:32. | |
Dillon. Good defending from Dillon in the end. He knows May is fast, he | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
has to get his body in front. He is a danger. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Good defending by Watson. A split second there. | :09:45. | :09:57. | |
It is a touch, not a lot in it but the game, every time Stevie May | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
finds the ball, he finds MacLean and MacLean links with May. Craig | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
Thomson sorting the ball out, eventually. | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
It is Wotherspoon, and Cierzniak holds on for dear life. It was | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
brilliant. He thinks he is going to have a shot, the set piece coming | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
off the ball. Wetherspoon cuts inside. Great defending. It really | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
is. I don't know if it was going in or not but Gunning does very well. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
It might have gone in, it is good defending at the same time they | :10:45. | :10:45. | |
could have scored easily. A great ball across, Saints can't | :10:46. | :11:03. | |
get it away. There is a big strike for hand ball, inside the box. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Calamitous, great skill from down. The cutback is good. -- great skill | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
from Ryan Dow. The ball falls to their own player, the ball strikes | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
his hand but there is no intention. This is better from United. It is | :11:21. | :11:52. | |
Robertson's Balling, a brilliant ball. It is Ryan Dow. Unlucky, has | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
it come off the inside of the post? What a fabulous move. That is | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
incredible. How unlucky can you get? The best move of the game from | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Dundee United. A deft touch from Ryan Dow, not of the post. It looked | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
like it had gone in from this angle. The fourth meeting of the teams in | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
the Scottish Cup. The first was a Saints win in 1933, they did not | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
meet again until 1991. United went through. Anderson has hurt himself. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
I don't know if he has landed on his ankle. The left ankle. It looks as | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
though he has rolled it. Strong from Ciftci, excellent work. | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
Watson hasn't seen much of the ball in the first half. Into the final | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
few minutes of it. Wetherspoon did not realise he had plenty of time to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
get it away but he has put it out of the corner anyway. When the ball | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
breaks, great anticipation. He flashes that across the face and is | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
not in the right place at the right time. | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
He's recovered, Steven Anderson from that ankle knock earlier on. | :13:29. | :13:51. | |
Great ball in as well. It's away by Robertson. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
A fabulous ball. The ball into a tremendous area. | :13:56. | :14:08. | |
Wotherspoon's corner kick. In comes the keeper, misses it. Steven | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Anderson! It's St Johnstone into the lead, right on halftime. The dream | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
is on for the Perth team. A Scottish Cup final goal for Steven Anderson. | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
We talked about St Johnstone from set pieces. The keeper doesn't get | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
anywhere near it. It's a fabulous header and a dream moment for him. | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
You have to ask questions about Cierzniak there. Steven Anderson's | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
fourth goal of the season. His most important goal for St Johnstone. | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
After so much heartache in the past in cup competitions for Anderson and | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
St Johnstone, they have given themselves a massive shot in the arm | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
right at end of the first half of the William Hill Scottish Cup final. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
It is St Johnstone 1, Dundee United 0. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Steven Anderson long servient with the Perth team. Six semifinal | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
defeats at the club. A goal in the Scottish Cup final, | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
round about the 300-appearance mark, hurtling towards that. A huge moment | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
for him and potentially for St Johnstone football club. They have | :15:35. | :15:35. | |
never won a major trophy. Last four Scottish Cup finals have | :15:36. | :15:57. | |
been pretty one-sided affairs. Rankin pumping it forward. That's a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
free kick, no, it's not. It looked like a free kick. | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
Play on says the referee. Frazer Wright has been decked as well | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
inside his own box. This time it is a freak kick. There was something | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
that happened off the ball, which I didn't see. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
That one is without a doubt a booking. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Oh, he's so unlucky! Mannus holds on. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
He does absolutely everything right. It's a text book free kick, reverses | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
it into the top corner. You're sure it's | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
A brilliant effort. Paton flies into Dunst. -- Dunne. I think he wins the | :16:56. | :17:11. | |
ball. How has Thompson viewed this foul? He certainly committed. He | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
went in hard and fast. But I think he takes the ball. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Oh, it's two-footed though. I didn't see that. He wins the ball, but it's | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
two footed. It's a dangerous challenge. I think he's lucky. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
In from Wotherspoon. Loads of space for Wright. He's put it in with his | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
hand. Is the ball already in? Craig Thompson is trying to sort this one | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
out. Stevie May thinks he's put it in. Stevie May by the looks of | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
things have given St Johnstone a 2-0 lead. Or has he changed his mind. | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
The header is over the line, I think. Confusion reigns. It looks as | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
though this isn't going to count. He's given the free kick. I think | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
the ball is over the line. It's not. It's a deliberate handball. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
He doesn't even need to put it in with his hand. He could have put it | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
in with his knee or his body in front. It's just a reaction thing | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
really. He didn't bargain on them seeing that behind the goal line. | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
Craig Thompson didn't see it. In comes the corner. Away by | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Eastonment -- Easton. O'Halloran gets there | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
first. Wonderful play by hall ha. He's -- O'Halloran. They're away on | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
the counter. Wotherspoon is going all the way | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
himself. Cierzniak beats it away. That was a fabulous counterattack | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
for United. They've just done a counterattack themselves. What a | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
final. 29 minutes here. Robertson going all the way this time. He | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
forces Mannus into the save. Wotherspoon breaks with the ball, it | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
was a four V four, before Robertson here does the same, a great run. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Mannus does well to tuck it round the post. Two counter-attacks. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Here's the won wodge one. He -- Wotherspoon one. He does ever so | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
well. They're in a hurry to take. Up comes | :19:39. | :19:52. | |
the skipper. It just won't fall for Dundee | :19:53. | :20:36. | |
United. Alan Mannus getting a vital touch here. It was brave. He tries | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
to throw his head in front of it. Wilson can't get on the end of it. | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
As I said very brave. But it hasn't fallen for Dundee United. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
He looks quite calm. They don't. Clock watching. | :20:58. | :21:16. | |
He can hit from distance. Graham! He takes his first touch ever so well. | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
It's a mis-hit. It's onto his left foot, everything he would want. He's | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
looking for the far corner. Two feet on it too much. He can't wrap his | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
foot around it to get it in the far corner. It's torture for the Dundee | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
United supporters. They hit the post in what looked | :21:43. | :21:55. | |
like a goal in the first half. How close was that? That is inches. | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
Fabulous play from Ciftci. Skips past two men. You think it's going | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
to nestle in the bottom corner. Dundee United really turning the | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
screw now. That will surely win the cup for St | :22:13. | :22:40. | |
Johnstone! Their first major trophy awaits them here. Steven MacLean | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
with the goal that may well turn him and his team-mates into legends. You | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
have to say the ball breaks kindly for Steven MacLean. He shows great | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
opportunism. It's a good run from Stevie May. They get the break of | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the ball. Stevie goes into the challenge, the keeper does well, but | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
when it falls, like it hasn't fallen for Dundee United today, he does | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
well to get it in. John Rankin was unfortunate there. Steven MacLean, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
after such a long career, having been on the bench in 2003, whilst at | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
Rangers, has played a starring role for write -- Tommy Wright's men. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Look what it means to the big men from Belfast. | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
When it's not your day, it's not your day. St Johnstone have been | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
impervious to everything that Dundee United have thrown at them. They | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
love defending. They've defended ever so well. Dundee United are | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
committing to many to the came. They have to go for it. Here come United. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Ciftci stretched his leg but could not get it from Frazer Wright. Play | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
on says the referee. Another good play. He's been a stand | :24:14. | :24:29. | |
out for Dundee United today. Deinjection for the Dundee United | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
supporters. Elation for those who have made the journey from Perth. | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
Their organisation has been exlem Prince Harry, defending -- | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
exemplary, defending incredible, at times. Frazer Wright, what he does | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
best, throws his body in the line. Right to the end #2,-0 up and -- 2-0 | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
up and Wright puts his body in the way. Graham, and that right there | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
sums it up. That's the biggest chance of the | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
day. He really has to hit the target. | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
Anderson right on halftime, Steven MacLean late on. Their names are | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
about to be etched into St Johnstone folklore. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Craig Thompson has checked his watch. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
St Johnstone, your time has come! History has been created and boy, | :25:38. | :25:50. | |
they've had a long, long wait for this. For a crack at this old | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
trophy, let alone getting their hands on it, which they will do now. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
A first Scottish Cup final in their 130-year history and the silverware | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
is going to Perth. We can hear from Tommy Wright. | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
130 years without a major trophy, sum up how that feels. Just look, | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
tremendous. The lads were superb. I mean, the first half were chances | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
for both teams. I can't thank them lads enough, what they've done for | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
me since I got the job and the rest of the staff. I'm so pleased for so | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
many people, the chairman and his dad up there and I'm proud. There | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
will be a lot of Perth in -- people in Perth that will be prouder than I | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
was. Could you have envisioned in your wildest dreams the season would | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
end like this? He did say to me I had to win a trophy in my first. I | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
said I would. Jokingly. As the cup run got on and on, we had a belief | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
that we were going to win the cup. I watched the chance in the first half | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
and I thought it was in. It hit the ground and just spun that little bit | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
away. Then I knew this was going to be our day. Just sum up how that | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
feels for you and the boys? Absolutely delighted. You wait a | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
long time for days like these, I'm going to savour it. You were | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
underdogs, but did you feel that you were coming in as second favourites? | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
No, we didn't deserve to be second favourites. Last three games we beat | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
them comfortably, no goals against us. We knew we'd beat them. Has had | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
a fantastic impact in his first season as manager. Tell whaus he's | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
done for you guys. From the first day he said he trusted us. We've | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
just repaid his trust. At the fans, what a day for them. It's brilliant. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
They've waited a long time. They deserve it. Good man, well done. | :27:56. | :28:12. | |
Now then. Tommy Wright leads them onto the podium to receive the | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
William Hill Scottish Cup and what a moment this is for them. This is | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
going to live with them forever. The 2014 William Hill Scottish Cup is St | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Johnstone's. St Johnstone, their first-ever major | :28:36. | :29:07. | |
trophy. How does it feel? An unbelievable feeling. We have worked | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
so hard for it. To win at our first attempt in a final is incredible. I | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
hope these guys enjoy at night. It is fantastic to see so many fans in | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
support of you. What does it mean to the players? Incredible. One third | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
of the population of Perth has turned up today. It is incredible, I | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
am delighted we have a trophy after all these years. You Gary Miller | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
Jackie, that must be -- Jackie, that must be gutting. Give us a flavour | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
of how you are feeling at the moment? Disappointed for the | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
players, not just today, but to get us here. I have to congratulate St | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
Johnstone winning the trophy as much as what happened just now, someone | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
had to win it. It was not our day today. Hitting the post and the | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
bar, they had fortune with the goal going in at half-time. The second | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
goal ricocheting and putting it in. It was not our day today. How | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
crucial were those elements, when the ball hit off the corner post, | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
over the line and over the net and the Ciftci free kick. Thin lines, | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
but that is what separates the game. There were few incidents in the | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
match, but I still think we can lay and we took the game to them. We | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
tried our best. We fell short with finishing. They get in your faces. | :30:40. | :30:50. | |
Yes, it is a lot easier to create. They are fantastic season, I | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
congratulate them on winning the trophy. | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
The man who took St Johnstone on the road to victory. How did it feel | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
when the goal went in? Delighted to be up 1-0 at half-time. It is a | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
crucial time to get a goal. It changes, you can open up as well. An | :31:18. | :31:27. | |
unbelievable celebration. You have had to wait for this. How does it | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
feel to be part of that? It is good to be part of history. I have | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
memories. Congratulations. Stephen, it was a tight game. Your goal helps | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
you to victory. It is a fantastic feeling, to score in any Scottish | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
Cup final. To score the second and put us in. A tremendous performance | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
throughout from St Johnstone, but for you guys coming into this match | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
as underdogs tonight, was there less pressure on you? No, we were quietly | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
confident in ourselves and everybody else thought we were underdogs but | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
we know we are a good side. Nobody turns is over. If we play well we | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
know we can give anybody a game. We have qualities and they were | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
unfortunate couple of times, but sometimes you need luck in a Cup | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
final. We deserved. Sum up what he has done for the side? He is a | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
fantastic manager and leader. He is a great guy. He has been fantastic | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
for us. The transition from Steve Lomas to him has been good. He is a | :32:37. | :32:45. | |
good older manager. It has been an historic day. I think | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
the term is unbelievable scenes in the dressing room afterwards, | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
champagne all over the place. Billy Dodds, you played for St Johnstone. | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
What Walter might mean for the club? Del bobbin absolutely amazing. You | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
have a club there, 130 years without winning anything. A trophy, to get | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
there and the way they handled the whole occasion, they were strong in | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
every department, defensively, midfield and attacking and they | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
deserved it today. You can see by those celebrations they will have a | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
fantastic night. It was a fantastic game as well. One of the best | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
Scottish Cup finals we have seen for a few years. St Johnstone were | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
deserved winners, weren't they? Yes, I think you can say that. You have | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
to play intelligently as much as anything else. If you are going to | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
win a game like that you have to play for your own strengths. They do | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
play to their own strengths. You have to neutralise the opposition | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
and they have a lot of strengths. Dundee United did not get to show | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
their qualities as much as they wanted to. I look at the entire St | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
Johnstone side and every single player played well. If you get every | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
single player in the team playing well, you get a good chance of | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
winning. We had expected maybe Stephen to be one of the | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
goal-scorers for St Johnstone, maybe Stephen May, it came out -- it | :34:10. | :34:21. | |
turned out to be Stevie May. The goalkeeper, all day long, people | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
look at Watson but you have to clear out when your goalkeeper comes that | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
far. You are thinking, he has got it and he misses it completely. Nobody | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
on the post, maybe if there was somebody who could have got it, but | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
it is a poor goal to lose and the timing of it. There is no one on | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
either post, there were questions over what's in there. Not from me. | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
You need to tell it like it is. It is Cierzniak's mistake and he knows | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
it is his mistake. The defender turns around and says, what on earth | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
are you doing? It is a shall we all know from youth football. If the | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
ball is coming over, it is mine, the keeper's. He goes for it, so you get | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
out of the way and he made a mistake. He has had a good season, | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
the goalie. Great movement from Anderson. No Hamish McAlpine, in | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
that scenario, what about this one? Was he to blame for the second goal? | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
No chance. They go for-5-1 at this point, May finds himself in the | :35:31. | :35:39. | |
space, it drifts off Rankin. I think the goal was brave more than | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
anything. He's quick off his line. He comes off Rankin, nothing he can | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
do about it. When you get your brakes, you have to make use of | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
them. That is what St Johnstone did. He has to be brave there. The | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
keeper is metres from getting it. What about the celebration? He has | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
got a yellow card for it, he knew he would get a yellow card. I am not | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
sure if it was for running up the crowd or taking off his shirt but in | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
a Scottish Cup final you have to enjoy the moment. Absolutely. We | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
need to give the officials credit. It did look like it might end in | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
huge confusion, the steely May incident. -- the Stevie May | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
incident. The additional assistant referee, it is not over the line | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
from the header. We bring it out a bit here, when he handles it it is | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
not over the line. Stevie May was saying he thought it was over the | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
line. That proves it wasn't. The assistants is in a brilliant | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
position. Somebody makes a decision, the linesman was gone and the | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
referee was gone, he was giving the goal and Alan Muir, perfect | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
position. He spotted it. On this occasion it works. They did speak to | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
Alan Muir and it looked like they had awarded the goal and this could | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
have marred the Cup final, if the goal had been given. Yes, but Alan | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
Muir knew all the way right throughout the hand ball, whether it | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
was over the line for the goalkeeper and he was spot on. They were never | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
going to let the goal stand. They were taking their time, quite | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
rightly, and got it spot on. I give the officials more than my fair | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
stick -- more than my share of stick but today we praise them. Was | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
impossible for Stevie May to tap that ball in with any other part of | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
his body? I know what you are saying. When I was doing commentary, | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
I thought could he have done it with his knee? It is high, behind him, | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
and natural instinct to bundle it over the line. You have to say in | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
slow motion it looks as if he can get it. It did not happen in slow | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
motion. It was not Dundee United's day, Jackie McNamara said. They had | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
plenty of chances, especially when you cut it down to the highlights. | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
It does look good, a brilliant touch. That is amazing skill. | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
Another day, he heads off the post and it goes in. This one, 90% of the | :38:14. | :38:24. | |
time goes in. You have deride your luck, when you get a chance to ride | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
your luck. At that point in time, we were starting to think this same | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
thing, it is going to be St Johnstone's day. They did create | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
chances, but Jackie McNamara, take nothing away from St Johnstone, they | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
were excellent, a great strike from Ciftci, Jackie McNamara will be | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
disappointed with their performance in the Cup final today because only | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
Ryan Dow hit the post. They did not do it enough. Can you pinpoint why | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
you think Dundee United were not on their game today? St Johnstone, as | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
simple as that. You can say all along United, they were not at it, | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
but you have to condiment St Johnstone and how they went about | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
their jobs. All throughout the pitch, defensively, midfield, | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
strikers, absolutely excellent. Who missed out in the last two Scottish | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
Cup finals but played a strong role to date? He was superb, running with | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
the ball was brilliant. See the drag backs and dummies. A great angle on | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
this one, you wondered if it would go in the back post but here, that | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
was going in. That was a goal. Good defending, number one. His running | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
was superb. He was always confusingly, this one, the run is | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
great. He has lots of options. The players dragging them all sorts of | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
ways but there is a couple of little drag backs here, the last two, you | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
have to say this would have been one of the greatest goals in Scottish | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
Cup history. There is a bit of him that will be delighted he is a | :40:05. | :40:07. | |
Scottish Cup winner but thinking, I could have gone down in history as | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
one of the greatest goals ever. The only thing he missed was dragging | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
across the goalkeeper in the bottom corner but brilliant. He had run a | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
long way. In terms of St Johnstone's overall game plan, from | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
the start it seemed they were in Dundee United's faces? Yes, closing | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
down, they do that, they don't give any space. They break the pace. | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
Armstrong I mentioned before, every time he got the ball they were close | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
to him. Closing in, then try and break away. No space at all given. | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
Mackay-Steven and Armstrong, Ciftci, three people, four people | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
sometimes around him, closing him down. He has no space at all. There | :40:52. | :40:58. | |
is a man on him, no chance to get going, get running. There were very | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
few times in the game when he got the ball to run. This time he did. | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
He runs out in defence that it is another great tackle. I was | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
impressed he managed to keep this up for the entire game. Ten players | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
behind the ball, but look what they do. They closed down Ciftci and they | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
break the pace. They are not going to calm down. Look at this. Chasing | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
him, one, five of them close into him. Have a look at these three. | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
Right in there. Closing down, and do you know what happens when you do | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
that? The ball goes away and you get position back. That was the game | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
plan. They worked at it and they didn't lose it at any point. It is | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
hard to do that. You get tired come mentally and physically tired, but | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
they never let it lie. Impressive from St Johnstone, we have seen the | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
goals but defensively you were impressed. It did start off shakily. | :41:54. | :42:02. | |
United got in, Frazer Wright and Dunne have a kick-off, they kick it | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
against each other twice. When it has to be blocked it is Frazer | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
Wright out there blocking as he did all day, McDonald joining in near | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
the end. All day we talk about United's front four, that is their | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
main strength. St Johnstone were at them all day long. He's ton-macro | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
tucked himself in from a fallback position, slangy -- slamming into | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
the tackle. St Johnstone had to be spot on. When you won 2-0 up and | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
wondering if they could get back in it, Wright is there to block the | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
Armstrong shot. Incredible defending to stop United's strength. | :42:38. | :42:46. | |
Courtesy of the Scottish FA's camera, you might have seen it | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
attached to the chest of Dave Macaye, the St Johnstone captain, as | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
he held aloft the Scottish Cup. What a scene. Billy, you've actually done | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
this yourself. For the likes of us... I've not done that! It's | :43:03. | :43:10. | |
amazing shots we've got there. I think it's Dave Macaye, you said. I | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
think we're dismissive of these St Johnstone collect itch, good, old | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
fashioned pros. Can you have 11 good players and team spirit, that | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
doesn't necessarily win you the trophies. It's being really good | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
players and on top of all that, these St Johnstone side have got | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
railly good individuals. It has been a magic day. The party | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
will be taking place in Perth. For us, there is Brian. | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
They were formed in 1884, it's taken 130 years to get here, but the | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
Scottish Cup is now in the hands of St Johnstone. Dave, congratulations. | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
Well done. What was the bus journey like? Lively, as you can imagine. It | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
was great atmosphere and the boys are delighted with it. You've got | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
this, St Johnstone's name is on the trophy. Remarkable. Incredible. 130 | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
years and the club have never had a name on the trophy. To finally do it | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
is fantastic. It's great to have so many fans the other day. You've been | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
here a long time. What does it mean to you and the club and the city of | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
Perth? It's great, fantastic. Hopefully we can get a few more of | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
the fans that turned up today turning up next season. It's great | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
to finally get a bit of silverware for the club. They've won First | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
Division and second division, but to win a major trophy is incredible. | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
It's a great feeling. Absolutely ecstatic, yeah. The feeling is | :44:49. | :44:55. | |
incredible. Just what it means to everybody at St Johnstone, for the | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
chairman, to everybody down in the dressing room, to the boys, to the | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
kit man, honestly, for my family, it means so much to me. Us what this | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
means to you. It means everything. To win the Scottish Cup in the first | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
season in management as well. It's special to me and to so many more | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
people at this football club. You know the chairman and his dad, | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
they've done a tremendous job. All the supporters and the players as | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
well. I'm really pleased for them today. At last, they've probably got | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
the recognition that they deserve. Many people have served this club | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
graciously over 130 years. But your name will go down in history as a | :45:38. | :45:40. | |
manager who brought the first trophy here. That will probably hit me | :45:41. | :45:50. | |
tomorrow, the enormity of it. They were saying, "Do you know what this | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
means, we will have to, in 20 years' time, we'll get a phone call, | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
there's a celebration dinner for the cup-winning side." I will have to | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
get on my zimmer frame and come over. To be the first is really | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
special. . You've been associated with this club for... 86. 6? What | :46:09. | :46:18. | |
does this mean? I have always said that what I was butting in was going | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
into the community. Hopefully the day would come where everyone | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
appreciated what you were doing. This is that day. Done. Job done. | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
Obviously, we'll be looking for more. Fantastic, ,500 people there | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
from Perth, fantastic. Thank you very much, guys. You all right? Ten | :46:39. | :46:49. | |
years you've been here, did you ever dream of days like this happening? | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
Of course you dream about them. But it's when it happens, and we made | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
sure we won the game. That's the most important thing. Does it mean | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
to you, you had the League Cup Final with Kilmarnock, didn't go well that | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
day. This is completely different. Completely different. Everyone is | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
buzzing. It's completely different. It's finally happened after 130 | :47:14. | :47:41. | |
years, St Johnstone have won their first major trophy and tonight in | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
Perth, the Saints are truly marching in. | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
A hugely emotional day for everyone connected with St Johnstone. I | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
guess, you'd have to say that a lot of the players, this might be their | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
only chance to win a Scottish Cup final and they've done it. That must | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
mean so much to them. That's what brought the pressure today. That's | :48:03. | :48:05. | |
why these lads, we've talked about them as a team group, as | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
individuals, but the hard work going on behind-the-scenes, what a guy, | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
Jeff Brown is, his son Stephen, just hard work, graft, desire, | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
dedication. That's what gets them that. I bet they're not sober now as | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
they were in those shots. Tommy Wright seems to be a class act. | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
Everybody has a good ward to say about him. Everybody pleased to see | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
him win the Scottish Cup. That's the sense of -- theme of the day, the | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
sense of goodwill. The manager has been brilliant. He hasn't put a foot | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
wrong. Well done to the chairman. Well done to the fans, turning out | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
in huge numbers. I have to say, I'd like to put it to Jeff Brown at the | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
end, known him for quite a few years, he's one of the best guys | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
I've ever met in football in my life. Well done, Jeff. The season | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
never seems to ever end. There's live international football coming | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
up on Sportscene, a week on Wednesday, when it's the friendly | :49:06. | :49:08. | |
between Nigeria and Scotland. Join us for that. Today was all about the | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
Scottish Cup. They say St Johnstone don't get the credit they deserve. | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
Well, they get it tonight. Congratulations Saints from all of | :49:18. | :49:19. | |
us here, good night. | :49:20. | :49:23. |