As a neutral, I was at this game on Saturday (away end) and it was obvious to me that this victory meant a helluva lot to the Raith Rovers supporters. From the history books, they know their team have been in the shadow of their Fife rivals since East Fife joined the Scottish League, so understandable is their glee, when they get one over East Fife.
My take on the game was that East Fife had a poor first half giving their opponents time on the ball and conceded 3 totally preventable goals from a Raith side who were more organised (although not brilliant by any means as has been mentioned in this thread), but still managed to score from a superb free kick, which arguably was the best goal of the match. In the second half, it was a different East Fife team that came out and Raith Rovers were made to look very ordinary for large parts of this half, however a bad mistake which led to the Raith 4th goal and a late killer goal at the end, gave them the victory that over the piece they probably deserved.
Best wishes to both teams and I hope they both manage to get promoted come the end of the season.
Cheers.