John Petrie scored 13 goals in Arbroath's legendary 36-0 humping of Aberdeen.

Don's manager Archie McPlop sighed "Gayfield's always a tough place to come to, we battled hard and the scoreline flattered them a little. I'm proud of the spirit showed by every player out there today, and if you'd asked me before the game I would've told you I'd be satisfied with anything under 40-0. We'll pick ourselves up and carry the momentum through with us next week against Annan Athletic. We need to keep focused and take nothing for granted, Galabank is always a tough place to go and try and get a result, just look what happened to Keith."

That was in 1885, and the following 129 years were to bear witness to a spectacular reversal of fortune between the pastry fuelled rivals. The Lichties were in total freefall and plumetted dramatically from 8th position to the very bottom of the 10 club division. By contrast The Dons having adopted a new 6-3-1 formation, a system used to ruthless effect by nearby goliaths Forfar Fyfe, stormed their way upwards through football's hierarchy, improving one positional placing each and every 20 years thereafter, despite resting top scorer John 'Petrie Dish' Petrie for the entire period, and stubbornly refusing to accept that it could ever be either practical or possible to 'substitute' one player for a better one.

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