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Trivia
- In an article entitled: "Memory of Burns" in the Glasgow Herald Sir John Ure Pimrose (Rangers' Chairman), invokes the Bard as a "sane democrat" who would have abhorred the laying down of tools and the breaking of a solemn covenant [National Strike] LINK
- The Herald also reports the burning by the Chinese government of their remaining opium stock which had been supplied on a contract with the British government. The value of the Shanghai opium bonfire was put at £25 million.
- The Bolshevik military are planning an offensive in the spring in South Russia with 2 million men according to an officer with the allied forces in North Russia according to a Press Association wire in the Glasgow Herald.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
MOTHERWELL:
Craig, Bell, Anderson, McIntosh, Brown, McSkimming, Lennie, Rankin, Hugh Ferguson, Gardiner, Young
Referee: J. Matthews (Greenock)
Attendance: 25,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald – Jan 27, 1919
MOTHERWELL A DETERMENING FACTOR
While Celtic and Rangers have been as consistently successful in League football as to stake the Championship their joint property, other clubs have been equally successful in their encounters with the monopolists. For several seasons Greenock Morton have waged relentless warfare against both clubs, and Rangers have provided the provincial club with several cherished victories. It would seem as if Motherwell were fated to thwart Celtic to an even greater extent; and for the second season in succession to be the arbiter as between the two city clubs. Last season a point loss to Motherwell at Parkhead deprived Celtic of the Championship, and a drawn game on the same ground on Saturday is likely to have a similar ending. A defeat sustained at Fir Park a few weeks ago was an incentive in itself for the Celts to improve upon last season’s home engagement with the Lanarkshire club, and it was with high hopes and their best eleven the ex-champions ventured upon the second meeting. Unfortunately for them, their opponents had a reputation to maintain, skill and determination to uphold it, and, if play was unevenly distributed, a faultless defence countered a spectacularly clever attack so effectively as to entitle Motherwell to share the honours as they did the points. If frequently outwitted and eluded, the Motherwell halves doubled back and either caught up their opponents or compelled them to shoot from such a distance as made scoring impossible. Brown and McIntosh discounted all the Celts’ carefully planned and deftly executed moves, and McSkimming was fortunate to find McAtee as obviously beneath his normal form as to enable the left half-back to be not the least effective member of an invulnerable defence.