THIS wasn’t quite Apollo Creed dispatching Rocky Balboa or the Empire taking on the Rebellion, but it was undoubtedly the result most onlookers didn’t want, delivered in a pretty uninspiring fashion.
That’s maybe a little harsh on Dundee United, but the favourites made tough work of the task laid before them, never quite clicking into gear and only just about finishing the Stirling students off with the ease a team full of internationalists should have. But that’s as much down to the performance of Chris Geddes’ boys as it was Liam Fox’s team.
If everyone loves the underdog - as Craig Brown, the former Scotland manager, had mused in a pre-match message to the Lowland League team - then it must follow that no one likes it when the ‘bad guy’ wins. That’s even truer when the villain of the pieces emerges after the unfancied opponent left it all out on the canvas.
