Dundee Utd1–0Dunfermline

This was our first victory in six games and it was as tight as the scoreline suggests. Dave Narey returned to the side after missing the Dundee match with flu and Paddy Connolly replaced Kevin Gallacher up front. We were well in command in the opening stages and almost went ahead after 15 minutes when Westwater did well to block a Paddy Connolly header after he made contact with John Clark's cross from the far right. The Pars best effort of the early part of the game came when Iron's sent in a header from an O'Boyle cross, but this was easily held by Alan Main. The visitors were desperately trying to break our stranglehold on proceedings, but we deservedly went ahead in 32 minutes. John Clark hoisted over a cross to the far post. Darren Jackson hit a powerful drive. The ball struck Westwater before rearing up and striking the underside of the bar. Darren fell to his knees as if praying to Mecca, but instead gratefully nodded the ball over the line as the ball came off the woodwork. About Alan Main's only serious activity of an opening half during which Dunfermline were under the collar, was to hold a long range drive from Tommy Wilson.

We took up where we had left off on the resumption and Westwater had to save one-handed from a John Clark header, but Mixu Paatelainen couldn't capitalise as the ball ran loose. With rain falling heavily and the pitch becoming heavier and heavier, play became bogged down in midfield until the final quarter of an hour when the Pars staged a fighting finish to try and save a point. Paul Smith broke through, but shot high and wide and then saw his first time shot flash over the bar as did a Rougvie effort shortly before the end of the game, but overall we fully merited our first victory of a new decade.