The teams appealed to the Inner House of the Court of Session and with support from Celtic's chairman Robert Kelly, this proposal was eventually dropped.
[9] Rangers continued to press and Coutt's intervention prevented Alex Smith from a near certain scoring opportunity.
[9] Johnston was substituted in the 66th minute by Davie Wilson, who had scored three goals against Berwick Rangers when they met in 1960.
It was not all one way traffic however, Berwick's Alan Ainslie forced Norrie Martin into a fine save and also hit the post.
[12] Wallace played the entire second half in goal despite losing a contact lens in the mud and claimed that they should have won 3–0 as "we missed far easier chances than the one Sammy Reid scored from".
[11] The defeat of Rangers sent shock waves around Scottish football; it was the first time they had been knocked out in the first round since they lost to Queen of the South by the same score almost exactly thirty years earlier on 30 January 1937.
The loss of McLean and Forrest allowed two notable players their chance with Rangers; Sandy Jardine was immediately drafted from the reserves to the first team[17] (and went on to play 674 games for Rangers over the next fifteen years) and Symon paid a then record fee between two Scottish clubs of £65,000 to sign the striker Alex Ferguson from Dunfermline Athletic that summer.
[18] Goal hero Sammy Reid had to go back to his job as a gear cutter in an engineering yard on the Sunday after the game to make up the time he had been given off earlier in the week for training.
Dave Smith, one of the Rangers players that day, subsequently managed Berwick between 1976 and 1980 leading them to their first League championship in 1979.