Clyde gave Ian Letham, the new club chairman who took up office last week, the perfect start with a victory over Dunfermline which lifted them off the foot of the table into seventh place and, in the process, put the Fifers down to second bottom.

Stevie Masterton opened the scoring when he latched on to a through ball from Ruari MacLennan and placed his shot wide of Paul Gallacher after 19 minutes.

David McGowan looked to have put the home side on easy street in the 65th minute when Sol Bamba diverted a shot from Masterton into his path and he made no mistake, dispatching the ball from the edge of the six-yard box past substitute goalkeeper Sean Murdoch, who had replaced the injured Gallacher six minutes earlier.

At the other end, however, a neat chip from Stevie Crawford found Mark Burchill free inside the area and the striker gave Clyde goalkeeper David Hutton no chance with his header to set up a tense finish.

Despite having the chances to steal a barely deserved point though, Dunfermline failed to find a way past Hutton and this early in the season, find themselves in a position few would have predicted.