Celtic greats took 210 minutes to get past us, but we were still robbed says former Ayr United star Dougie Mitchell
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dailyrecord.co.ukDougie Mitchell was certain it wasn’t a penalty at the time – 50 years on he remains convinced Ayr were cheated out of a place in a Hampden final.Celtic had won the European Cup only two years earlier.But it took Jock Stein’s greats 210 minutes to beat them in the League Cup semi-finals in October 1969.Dougie, now 71, insists United were hard done by and reckons minnows often got the thick end of refereeing decisions.Bobby Rough headed Ayr in front only for John Hughes to equalise at the break.The big moment came when John Murphy was ruled to have fouled Willie Wallace for a penalty which Tommy Gemmell stuck away.Dougie claimed: “It was never a penalty and I will always believe that.“Ayr were robbed and a lot of people agreed.”Davie
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