Saints shocked by 'new-look' Gers

By a "Courier" reporter
ST JOHNSTONE were liter-
ally taken by surprise
at McDiarmid Park on
Saturday by a Rangers team
ravaged by injuries and
call-offs and minus seven
established internationalists.
Saints had still not got to
grips with the "new-look"
'Gers when they fell a goal
behind in the seventh
minute.
John Morrow, promoted
from the reserves and im-
pressing throughout his
debut on the right wing. set
up John Spencer's shot
which Lindsay Hamilton
failed to hold. allowing Ally
McCoist to score.
The visitors' second, a
minute before half-time. was
again scored by McCoist, but
from what looked a clearly
offside position.
Goals by Harry Curran
and Paul Wright pulled the
Perth side level before Scott
Nisbet won the game for
Rangers with a superb
header 15 minutes from time.
In the absence of both
managers following an
alleged incident in the tunnel
which saw them leave the
ground. not to return until an
hour after the final whistle
(see report on Page 7). it
was the assistant managers
who commented on the
game.
"When we came back to
level it 2-2 we had them on
the run. but Nisbet is obvi-
ously good at set pieces,"
said Saints' Bert Paton.
"Our boys battled hard but
6 6 We were pushing
up to get a win and left
the bock door
open !I !I
we never like to lose three
goals at home.
"We were pushing up to
get a win and left the back
door open."
John Inglis was replaced
by Curran at half-time and
has a groin strain and Paul
Cherry pulled a hamstring
near the end.
Rangers assistant Archie
Knox said his team had
acquitted themselves well.
He singled out Morrow
and reserve team coach John
McGregor for particular
praise-the latter making his
first appearance since a knee
injury seemingly ended his
career in 1988.
"Morrow does a good job
and offers us something a bit
different," he said. "He can
be really pleased with his
debut."
Peter Huistra, absent on
international duty for
Holland, will have a battle on
his hands to reclaim his first
team place from the young-
ster, who was signed from
Linfield four seasons ago.
Scotland under-21 striker
John Spencer will miss to-
morrow's game in Romania
with hamstring trouble, and
a recurring ankle injury
makes Ally McCoist a major
doubt for the full squad's
vital European Champion-
ship clash on Wednesday.
Saints have picked up only
two points at home and. as
striking worries ease, prob
lems seem to be growing at
the other end of the park.
The defen<:e. as well as
conceding three goals. also
offered Rangers a hatful of
chances which they failed to
convert.
Powerful drugs give new
hope to .heart patients

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Even better, three-quarters of the patie,
taking drugs had fewer heart auacks or oth
serious symptoms than the control
Dr Patterson, who wlll present the findin
at the Cardiology 91 conference in Lond.
later this month, said. "This is the first gal
evidence that you can slow the progress
coronary atheroma and make it regress, ,.
Four in 10 Britons suffer from day-to-d,
exhaustion, according to a report today.
Tiredness affects some 4W of the popul,
tion. making it the second most comma
medical complaint in doctors'
across the UK. after pain-but it is shll nc
recognised as an illness as in other Eurapea
countries. even though the symptoms ca
last at least sIx months.
The report in "Company" magazine saie
"While doctors openly admit that chroni'
fatigue or TAT (Tired All The Time) syn
drome is extremely common. they also admi
that they often consider it to be more I
C!,f a patient's imagination than a rea
Christmas Party Time
RANGERS MANAGER Walter
Smith and his St Johnstone counter-
part Alex Totten are likely to know
this week whether they face charges
arlsing from an incident at
McDiarmid Park. Perth, on
Saturday.
The two were apparently involved
in an incident In the players' tunnel
at half-time.
A police spokesman. who did not
identify the two men involved. later
revealed that a report has been sent
to the Procurator Fiscal in Perth.
who will decide what action. if any.
is to be taken against them.
Both men were apparently driven
away from the ground and neither
saw the second half as Rangers heid
off a fightback to win 3-2.
AS:!iistant managers Archie Knox
and Bert Paton conducted the
post-match media conference
before Smith and Tolten were
driven back to the ground in the
same car an hour after the final
__
The tWI? hurried past waiting
to answer ques
tians or make any comment. '11 :->t'nl",', 'rlt Ilr,' I -
McDiarmid
Park
incident
HIGH-RISK heart patients may be given a
new lease of life by takIng powerful choles-
terol-burning drugs to reopen blocked
coronary arteries. new research shows.
Until now most doctors believed the build-

Recent trials in Britain and America show
that new drugs which "burn up" cholesterol
nearly twice as fast as standard therapies can
improve narrowed arteries and even cause
blocked arteries to open up.
Dr David Patterson, of Whittington Hos-
pital. London, who has treated up to 300
patients with one of the drugs, said there was
a drastic fall in cholesterol and an improved
outlook for patients.
American researchers who treated 120
high-risk men with similar drugs also found
that the disease process went into reverse in
a third of them.
Narrowed or blocked arteries began to
clear in the drug-treated group bul not in
patients who only dieted and took exercise.
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HEALTH MINISTER
Virginia Bottomley Is
denying claims that cash
shortages could jeopard-
ise revolutionary new
child-care laws.

that local authorities do
not have the resources to
implement the Children
Act, which comes into
force today.
Mrs Bottomley said
extra cash had already
been earmarked for
councils so that they
could carry out their
extra duties but admitted
she did not expect all the
provisions to be imple-
mented immediately.
Social services depart-
ments have claimed extra
cash has not reached
them and they are being
forced to make cutbacks.
A survey has shown
that nearly half the local
authorities have not
drawn' up plans to help
youngsters leaVing care,
which they afe required
to do under the Act.
Mrs Bottomley.
Cash threat
denied
an was in a Usatisractory"
art attack near the summit of
n Saturday.
, and a helicopter from RAF
s.:tlelland was laken to Vale
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THE PRINCESS
the second Ba
yesterday. ...
But unlike th."" I..
tury confI'ontat1,Ol
emerged victoria.
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assistantchiefCQnstable. In his capacity with
Rangers he attended the game and wassitting In
the visiting directors' box: in the weststand of the
Perth stadium.
Justj)efore half-tinie he went down towards the
tunnel, as was quite normal for him. .
He saw Totten standing and .remonstratlng
.with a linesman, ''using strong language" telling
him to "open his eyes."
There was no response from the linesman, who
he thought might have been out of earshot
because of crowd noise.
"Remarks were made towards the
Rangers dug-out," said Mr Hood.
These were along the lines that Rangers were
ruining SCottish football and that one of their
players was a cheat, he said.
He described Totten's demeanour as "uptight,"
but like any football manager in aclose game.
Smith responded by telling him to "shut his
mouth."
"It was a heated eXChange.. but not uncommon
ina dug-out situation," said Mr Hooct .
He saw a chief inspector indicate.to Totten to
sit down, which he did.
Continued. on Page 2.
Threat to children
fromdyseq,terybug
RANGERS BOSS Walter Smith became involved
in a "heated excbange"with his StJobnstone
counterpart Alex Totten following an accusation
that the Ibrox star striker was a cheat, Perth
Sheriff Court heard yesterday.
During the first day of the breach of the peace
trial witnesses gave differingaccounts of whether
the verbal confrontation at a clash between the
two clJlbs at McDiarmid Park degenerated a
physical fight.
It emerged that the dug-out row escalated after
Ally McCoist scored a hotly disputed goal which
gave Rangers a two-nil lead just before half-tinie.
Totten (45), of Dunipace, and Smith (43), of
Helensburgb, deny that on October year In
the ground they conducted themselves in a
disorderly manner during the course of a Premier
League match, shouted and swore at each other
and at half-thne, in the tunnel area, shouted and
swore, engaged in a stand-up fight and committed
a breach of peace. .
James Hood (59) was the first witness to give
eVidence.
He. said he was employed by Rangers as
operations executive, which Involved liaison with
fans, police and club officials.
A former security adviser to the SFA, he was a
poUceman for 31 years and rose.to the rank of
Managers
in match
row deny
charges
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he British government has already ex-
ssed reservations about the idea, warn-
that although such a tax would produce
le switching from coal to gas, thus
ting C02 emissions, there is still too
uncertainty about how much carbon
dde the EC will be producing by the end
the century to assess the practical
efits.
ut the commission insists it needs a
enough tax to switch consumers away
1 carbon fuels as a way of meeting the
) commitment to stabilise carbon diox-
at present levels by the year
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the commission proposals were adopted,
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Conservation ofE.nergy..
The group ,.keyprogrammesfor
energy-saving andrenewable energy, SAVE
and THERMIE,' were, being, cut back by
Brussels at the same time that the tax was

Director Andrew Warren said, "Between
them these two programmes would, on the
EC's own figures, have saved more energy
and carbon dioxide than the new tax ever
will.
"The EC's figures showthat on its own the
tax will provide less than one quarter of the
savings necessary to stabilise greenhouse
gas emissions in Europe."
Mr Warren said energy-saving dtives hold
the key to reducing greenhouse gases, not '
"higher and higher prices."
A SIX-year-old boy under-
went emergency surgery
yesterday after two youths
used a flaming box of
matches to set his T-shirt
alight as he played with a
friend.
Craig Hasler was.$aveq.PM,
playmate
six, who desperatelybeat out
the flames after Sunday's
attack in Bracknell,'
Berkshire.
Yesterday, surgeons at the
specialist burns unit of
Slough's Wexham Park Hos-
pital attempted to graft skin
from other parts of the
youngster's body to repair
his' badly burned chest and

hunting
two '. youths. who, sat in the
branches of a tree' dropping
matches on their victim as he
played on a slide below.
Chief. Inspector 'Stephen
O'Reilly said Craig and
Robert were the only wit-
nesses to the "sickening and
disgusting" attack but they
had given police good
descriptions of the two.
Craig's father, Dave
Hasler, said, "Robert saved
my son's life. and, as far as I
am concerned, he is a hero.
The whole thing was horrific.
"My wife Diana is beside
herself and 'Craig was lei
frightened and in paiIl
Thank God his best
was there to help him," h
added. .
Robert's mother, Sharor
said, "For someone so youn:
to have acted so quickly i
amazing. ,The police hav
said 'they will show
around the station a tres
and are considering' a:
award."
Row followed verbal battle, court told
Soldier
loses
legs
ILDIER was seriously ill
ospital yesterday after
g both legs in an IRA
) explosion:
s believed he stood on a
nine at Cappagh, Co
rle, on Tuesday night
, part of a patrol. The
confirmed his legs
amputated following
last.
suffered other injuries,
ling back wounds, and
to be in a "very
IS" condition.
blast happened near a
ct house in a country
md an Army follow-up
1 of the scene was
ted yesterday.
Continued from Page 1
HAVING SAID that it was
nothing out of the, ordinary
Depute Fiscal Alan Kempton
asked him, "Is it common for
managers to shout and swear
at each other?" to which he
replied, "Yes." ' '
At the half-time whistle
both managers quickly. came
out of their respective dug-
outs and into the tunnel.
Mr Hood said that his
police experience told him
that sometimes a verbal ex-
change could deteriorate
into a physical confrontation
so he placed himself between
the two managers.
"At no time were they
together and no blows were
struck. If anybody had been
struck it would have been
myself," he said.Mr Jock
Brown is appearing for
Totten and Mr Jim Peacock
for Smith.
The trial is being heard
before Sheriff John McInnes.
Under cross-examination
James Hood was asked by
defence solicitor Jock Brown
how he would respond to
allegations of a shoulder
charge between the two
managers.
"That is simply not true,"
answered Mr Hood. "There
was no
There was no stand up fight:"
Questioned by Mr Smith's
solicitor Jim Peacock, Mr
Hood said he understood
that the comment by Totten
that one of the Ranger's
players was a cheat was
directed at Ally McCoist.
Agbal was scored a couple standing in the tunnel as the
of minutes before half-time half-time appi'bached.
which meant Rangers were "When the half-time
by tWo goals to nil. whistle went Totten came out
A disputed off-side of his dug-out very quickly
decision played a part in the and was followed by Smith,"
second goal said Mr Hood. said the chief inspector.
The witness agreed that "Smith then deliberately
Smith was not the only shoulder-charged into
person making remarks in Totten as they went through
Totten's direction, others in the double doors in the
the Rangers dug-out were as, tunnel," he added.
well as nearby fans.
Under questlOnmg from twb
Depute Fiscal Alan Kemp- and then Mr Adamson also

manager Walter Smith pur- The two' were then taken
posely barged into Totten as into the police detention
the pair walked up the room and shortly afterwards
players' tunnel moments asked to leave the ground.
after the half-time whistle. Asked by Depute Fiscal
Chief Inspector Adamson, Alan' Kempton how he felt
of Tayside Police, had been about the conduct ,of Smith
and Totten, Chief Inspector
Adamson said he was very
concerned.
"If this behaviour had,con-
tinued no one would have
known what would have
happened," he added.
Earlier the chief inspector
said he 'had to ask Totten to
return to his dug-out after he
had been gesticulating, curs-
ing and swearing at! the
linesrpan the
:1 then said the
two managers faced up to
each'other, cursing and
nu;" yeo. .....
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Asked if swearing was
normal behaviour at a foot-
ball match, Mr Adamson
replied, "Swearing may be,
but swearing coupled with
threatening gestures is not."
The trial continues today.
Violence
erupts
again
TROUBLE FLARED agEd
last' night on a trouble
council estate in Coventry.
The Wood End estat
seemed set for a second nigl
of violence after a petre
bomb was thrown at a polf(:
van, jn the car park of
public house.
Police'sent reinforcemen'
to the scene after 30-stror.
gangs of youths gatherE
and started throwing stone
The tension came aftt
Tuesday's night's seriOl
disturbances.
Police said' gangs' of 30 1
40 youths thrOWing stone
were involved.
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By our man at Westminster
lONE OF Scotland's 56 local
councils will be charge-capped
because of planned over-spend
ing this year.
Scotti h Secretary Ian Lang
told MPs in the Commons that
all Scottish local authorities had
budgeted at, or below, the
spending targets announced last
October.
"In these circum tances I do
not propose to take capping
action against any Scottish local
authority this year," he said.
Environment Secretary,
Howard announce:
that J2 councils south or thr
Border-three of them under
. ory control-are to be charg!"
capped because of too-high
spending budget .
This year Scottish authorities
plan to increase their expendi-
rure by 5.5O/C; compared with th
last financial year and the excess
of budgets over gUideline targets
has been reduced from 2.1 % last
year to 1.1 % for this ear.
Mr Lang said, "This outcome
demonstrates the effectiveness
of my strengthened capping
powers in constraining the
growth in LA expenditure."
Spi':'1 ing la ":' n}l
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The 12 J::ngli.h <;0('1" Ii
flaJTle . ror cappi!lg \ ill lI,,\;,' .'
tJays to appeal agailisl II,
Governmern's 10 ;,:.;
their joint spending by "Ill",
(;<13 million.
('wo councils have gone abo"
l(lrget level only slightly, bur til
Gloucestershire authority-coli
rrolled jointly by Labour and th,
Liberal Democrats-h<l
breached the Government's 0111
ping criteria by -C9.9 million.
There will be no respite in !til
drive to force councils to
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Rangers players and on the way back shouted to
the Rangers dugout that the Glasgow team were
trying to buy the championship.
Within seconds pf the match restarting,
Rangers almost scored another but an offside
decision went against them. This time, Smith rose
from the dugout to take a linesman to task.
According to the Rangers boss, Totten shouted
in strong language that Rangers wanted every
decision in the league to go their way.
Smith replied, also in strong terms, that he
should shut up and sit down.
When the half-time whistle blew shortly
afterwards, the managers went into the tunnel,
Totten slightly ahead of Smith and Rangers'
operations executive James Hood.
"As we started to walk up the tunnel, I leaned
across to Mr Totten and asked him if he would
mind not addressing comments to Rangers
players," said Smith.
"The firsrthing I remember happening was that
I was grabbed from behind and pushed along with
Mr Totten and Mr Hood towards a room in the
tunnel.
"I didn't realise until we were in the room that
it was Sergeant Fairweather who was pushing
me.. "
Inside the detention room, there was a
discussion between Sergeant Fairweather and
Chief Inspector Adamson and then the chief
inspector said, "Charge them,"
Continued on Page 2.
anagers
sdelined
foraweek
ST JOHNSTONE manager Alex Totten and his
Rangers counterpart Walter Smith will have to
wait a week before learning the outcome of their
breach of the peace trial at Perth after Sheriff
Mcinnes yesterday deferred his verdict until
Thursday.
At the end of the two-day trial, the sheriff said
he would need mor,e time to consider the evidence
and various cases involving similar circum-
stances which had been brought to his attention
by the managers' solicitors.
Totten (45), of Dunipace, and Smith (43), of
Helensburgh, deny an amended charge of con-
ducting themselves in a disorderly manner during
the course of a Premier League match on October
]2 at Muirton Park, and swearing at
each other and, at half-time, 10 the tunnel area,
shouting and swearing, confronting each other,
with Smith striking Totten with his shoulder, and
both thus committing a breach of the peace.
The charge had originally the two of
engaging in a stand up fight in the tunnel, but this
was deleted by depute fiscal Alan Kempton after
all the evidence had been heard.
Yesterday, Smith said the police were wrong in
their version of events inside the tunnel. H,e had
been worried at the fact that the evidence given
by police officers had been so from his
own recollections.
Smith admitted he and Totten exchanged
remarks after a controversial incident on the park
which led to a Rangers goal
Totten, he said, left the dugout to remonstrate
with officials and pass comments on certain
Scot-
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Smith and Totten allege
that police were lying
who were on a golfing hOli-llers' cheques, passports and even their
day. The co-pilot was Italian. holiday clothes.
The princess with a fam'
i:',her when she toured thl
finals against other finalists
to determine who will re-
ceive the top prize-a stay in
a London hotel plus a trip to
Ascot for Ladies Day in a
chauffeur-driven Bentll:y,
champagne picnic and 1500
to spend on clothes.
If successful it won't be the
first time Susan has been to
Ascot, but certainly this
head-turning hat is a far cry
from her previous stmw
boater, which she herself had
also revamped.
Already Susan has picked
Susan'.s hat is turn
susAN IZAtT has officially
been credited with designing
Scotland's top hat.
Susan, of 34 Fordell
Hillend, said the
idea came to her as she was
at work as a cleaner at
CO,niinercial Primary School.
Bet 'hat, a' mixture of
strawberries and dessert top-
ping, was designed to be
worn at Royal Ascot.
As a regional winner
Susan's hat will be going
head to head in the national
Lord Carnarvon died from
a poisoned mosquito bite in
Cairo six months after his
discovery, although Carter
lived on until 1939.
US magnate Jay Gould
died of pneumonia resulting
from a cold caught at the
tomb and the famous
Egyptian Bey was shot by his
wife in London.
/
Carter's secretary died in
unusual circumstances at the
Bath Club and his right hand
man Arthur Mace sickened
and died before the tomb had
been full,Y cleared.
The princess, who spent 15
minutes in the elaborately-
decorated tomb with its gold-
encased mummy, seemed
totally unconcerned about
the legend.
Straight after emerging
from its cool interior she ran
into an old friend-a police-
J;>0int Mr James man regularly on duty.at her
ers
intervehl!d to PaJ'ace. ,1,,' " ..
, '0 lfen,' t '.,. M\lfo/n ,i,th' an.d.rpi.s
. wtfe. who. are on
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Brown, Sergeant Fairweath-
er>g!d there no contact
beW.ceo the 'men after
charge.
M( Brown add Smith's
Mr Jim Peacock,
milde sub"missions of no case
in respect of their
clients.
Both argued there was
insufficient evidence to
proceed.
Sheriff McInnes ruled that
what the sum and substance
of the evidence was could
only be properly considered
once all the evidence' had
been heard. He therefore
repelled the submissions.
could have resulted in a
situation which would have
been difficult to handle, he
added.
:<\t half time Sergeant Fair-
weather, who was in the
tunnel, said he saw the two
managers COfning down the
tunnel in a very angry state.
Smith appeared to
shoulder charge Totten and
there was a general wrestling
match.
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pletely spoil the holiday it was annoying and
we spent a lot of time filling In forms."
couldn't believe it."
Totten was asked whether
there had been swearing,
shouting or physical contact
as the managers had re-
turned to the dressing room,
and replied. "Non'e
whatsoever."
Earlier a police witness
said he feared the managers'
confrontation could ,have
started a fight amol)gst the
players. .
Sergeant Alfred Fair-
weather said he was
"alarmed" at their conduct.
If their heated exchanges
had spread on to the park it
manager said he felt Chief
Inspector Adamson grab his
arm and he was taken into
the nearby police detention
room.
"When arrested I was
astounded really for as far as
I was concerned nothing had
happened.
"When I was charged the
police officer said something
about a stand-up fight-I just
word, asked if they wanted
every decision in the league.
. During questioning from
his solicitor. Mr Jock Brown,
Totten agreed that he did
gesticulate at Mr Smith.
Once the half-time whistle
had blown, Totten said he
left the dug out and hurried
up the tunnel.
As he approached the
swing doors, Smith told him
to leave McCoist alone.
Totten told the court he
replied by'saying,'''You shut
up Walter."
Then the St Johnstone
He told McCoist to cut it
out and the Rangers player
said Totten should look after
his own. "I never swore at
him and I never called him a
cheat," added Totten.
Later, he had become
annoyed with a linesman
who he thought was giving
poor decisions.
He went to the Rangers
dug-out and, using a swear
Continued from Page'
SMITH SAID the charge at
that time related only to
shouting and swearing and
there was no mention of
being engaged in a stand-up
fight.
Under cross-examination,
Smith said he had not been
shouting or swearing in the
tunnel, there was no
shoulder charge and no con-
frontation bet.w.een the
managers. -u',' ,
Asked if it was his position
the police were lying about
the incident in the tunnel, h'
replied. "Yes."
Earlier, Totten had also
cast doubt on the evidence of
police officers.
Asked if he thought the
police had gOI together to tell
lies, Totten said he believed
they had.
He said that during the
match a heated discussion
between managers was
commonplace.
"It happens all the time,"
said Totten.
Totten said he had been
upset by Rangers striker Ally
McCoist elbowing St John-
stone defender John Inglis in
the face.
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from ,the criminal law in
general and the risk of a
charge of breach of the peace
in particular if their behav-
iour is disorderly and
amoUnts to that crime."
The sheriff said that in his
opinion the conduct of
Totten did amount to' a
breach of the' peace. He'
found him guilty of
inghimself in a disorderly
manner during the match,
shouting and swearing and
at half-time, in the tunnel
area, shouting and swearing
and so cOll1l1).itting a breach
of the peace.
He deleted a reference to
confronting each other and
Smith striking Totten with
his shoulder.
"So far as the accused
Walter Smith is concerned,
while in onesense his proven
'behaviour might, also have
been categorised as amount-
ing to breach of the peace, it '
seems that much of what he
is' proved to have done and
said hIay have been done in
response to what was being
done and by Torten.
"I am of the opinion that
the proper verdict so far as
the accused Walter Smith is
concerned is one of not
proven."
After Smith left the dock'
Totten's solicitor Jock Brown,
said his client, who lives in '
Dunipace, was a married
man with two children and
had an unblemished
character. '
Mr' Torten had been up-
tight and had a "feeling of
injustice" about the decisi9n
which led to Rangers' seqmd
goal. '
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Mr Smith took exception, Although police witnesses
to what was said about one of were convinced that Smith
his players and shouted and: shoulder-charged' Totten,
swore at Totten,: pointed at there was no evidence which
him and told him to shut his could support the allegation
mouth and sit down. which was initially made that
Sheriff McInnes said both there had been a stand-up
managers had admitted' fight between the pair in the
shouting and using swear: tunnel.
words and that Totten said' Sheriff McInnes said' tie
he saw this as part of football was unable satisfactorily to
and that bad language resolve contradictQry
between dug-outs during, evidence and found that it
such a match was normal. was not proved that Smith
Totten fined. after
incident at match
ST JOHNSTONE manager
Alex Totten was fined 250
at Perth Sheriff-Court
day for a breach of the peace-
arising from incidents at a
game against Rangers' last
year.
" His counterpart with the
rival club, Walter Smith, had
:the charge against him found
not proven.
" Sheriff John McInnes, who
heard the trial earlier this
, month, had deferred his'
decision until yesterday for
,
',The background to the
case was an all-ticket match
between the two clubs at
McDiarmid Park on October
12, attended by
spectators: ' ,
','Early in the match both
mailagers went on to the
cinder track beside the pitch'
to speak to their
said the sheriff. "Chief In-
'spector James' Adamson
asked both of them, in Tot-
ten's case twice, to return to
the stand-which they did.
"Shortly before half time
Rangers scored their se'cond ' ' Totten (left) and Smith.
goal. Totten went on to the '
cinder track area' again. ,He As the half-time whistle shoulder-eharged Totten and
shQuted anQfiwore at a lines
c
blew, Tot;ten and Smith made 'for the same reason found it
man in an abusive inanner." for the tunnel aI;ldJaines that thetwo
The chief inspector Hood, an operations execu- confronted each other.
approached Totten, took tive with Rangers, placed While evidence was led for
hold of him and ,himself between the two, the defence that language
panied him to the5t John- rearing trouble. from the terraces was often
stone dug-out, said the h 'ff "d h foul and obscene, an,d that
sheriff. However, later Thes en sal e pre-
"e d th'e e'vI'dence' of the ,managers in the course of
Totten stood up and shouted ,1' rre
and swore at Smith, alleging three police officers to that' such games used this kind of
that Rangers' striker' Ally of the accused and said he language, he did not think
McCoist was a cheat and his ,did not find it credible that it these were consideratiouE
d
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club were ruining Scottish ,was eCI e to arrest an",
football an.d wanted all dede ' charge them if nothing had account.
'.sions in their favour. 'happened in the tunnel. "Managers are not exempt
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