Dundee Utd7–0Kilmarnock

United had just returned from the siege of Bremen where United's thin tangerine line had somehow held firm in the face of awesome aggression from Rudi Voller and his Werder colleagues. That had been enough to allow United to get to the last eight of the UEFA cup for the second successive season. But, league matters were uppermost on United's minds. As a thank you gesture to the fans, the club reduced admission to the terracing by 50p to £1 and Stand prices were dropped from £3 to £2.50. Unfortunately, only 7,259 took advantage of the cut-price football, but they weren't short-changed by United who turned on a blistering performance which had Killie reeling long before the end.

Thanks to some stout defending by McDicken and Clarke, the visitors did reasonably well in the first half. Their resistance was finally broken in the 38th minute. Ralph Milne's drive was half-blocked by team-mate John Reilly and he chased the loose ball to shoot past McCulloch.

After the break, the floodgates opened and Jim Clunie's men were all at sea. The second half was only three minutes old when Killie got themselves in a right pickle and a neat back-heeler from Billy Kirkwood left Eamonn Bannon with time and space to shoot past McCulloch from eight yards. Dave Narey smashed a thunderbolt off the inside of the post as United went in search of a third and that duly arrived midway through the second period when Paul Sturrock's cross from the left was headed on by Ralph Milne to John Reilly who converted from point-blank range. In the last quarter of the game the goals flowed thick and fast. Five minutes later a Milne corner was only cleared as far as Dave Narey who was lurking on the 18 yard line and he volleyed with velocity past McCulloch's outstretched right hand. The goals were coming at regular five minute intervals. The fifth ranking as probably the goal of the game, possibly the season. Ralph Milne embarked on a magnificent solo run from the halfway line, beating four defenders before calmly crashing the ball past a bemused McCulloch. In the last four minutes United grabbed a couple more. Number six was scored by Davie Dodds as he turned a Ralph Milne cross home and a minute from the end, Davie Dodds bagged his second by heading in Eamonn Bannon's free-kick from the left. United had been cheered on to the park after the glory in Germany against Werder Bremen, and left the field to a standing ovation after carving Killie apart. The visitors, however, could take consolation from the fact that when this United side turned it on, the cream of Europe struggled to live with them. Despite this handsome victory, United still trailed Celtic who headed the table by three points with both sides having played 14 games. Whilst United fans would have no doubt relished watching it all over again on, I am sure that few Killie fans would have taken in STV's highlights of the match that evening.