Scottish League Cup Final
21st March 2010
Hampden Park, Glasgow

St. Mirren 0-1 Rangers

Thomson 53
Wilson 71
Miller 84

ATT: 44,538

Referee: Craig Thomson

• In one of the most infamous and astonishing matches ever played in the history of not only the club. but Scottish football, Saints lose the 2010 League Cup Final against a Rangers side down to 9 men.
• Saints initially made light work of their underdog tag, and with 11 v 11 were by far the better side, particularity in the first half where Steven Thomson missed the best chance of the match, and David Barron hit the cross bar.
• Saints domination continued into the 2nd half, and Rangers frustration boiled over after 53 minutes when Kevin Thomson was red carded for a wild lunge at namesake Steven.
• Rangers decided to sit deep as a result of this, with the onus on Saints to break down the Ibrox men, which they found extremely difficult.
• On the only occasion Saints did break through the mass Ranges ranks on 71 minutes, substitute Craig Dargo was taken down by Danny Wilson when he was about to shoot, and the Rangers defender was also red carded.
• The stalemate continued, with Saints simply unable to take advantage of their incredible situation, and in their unnecessarily desperate attempts to finish the match inside 90 minutes, lost a goal on the counter attack to Kenny Miller after 84 minutes, and the final drifted away from Saints in devastating circumstances.