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Trivia
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Review
A clinical display of finishing is the key feature of the match as Celtic thump lowly Hamilton
Teams
HAMILTON ACADEMICAL: Sommerville, Hunter, Johnstone, Steel, McNeil, Thomson, Gillespie, Miller, Collins, McMillan, Moffat
CELTIC: Shaw, McNair, Hilley, J, McStay, W. McStay, McFarlane, McAtee, Gallacher, Cassidy, Thomson, McLean
Referee: W. F. Campbell (Dundee)
Attendance: 8,,000
Goals: McMillan (1-0), McLean (1-1), Gallacher (1-2), Cassidy (1-3), Thomson (1-4), McMillan (2-4), McLean (2-5)
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
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Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 12th November 1923
FORWARD BRILLIANCE
The game between the Hamilton Academicals and the Celtic, which was played at Hamilton before some 8000 spectators, was a much more strenuous one than the score would indicate. Unluckily for the Hamilton side, they struck a bad time in the last twenty minutes of the first half, and the more experienced Celtic players were not slow to press home their advantage. For ten minutes the Academicals struck a telling game, but after McMillan scored the Celtic took the game in hand, and before the interval, as a result of effective play on the part of their forwards, they had the issue in safe keeping. McAtee was the leader of the movements which enabled McLean to equalise, and Gallacher to put his side ahead, and before the Academicals had recovered for McMillan to score a second goal Cassidy and Thomson had both found the net. The Academicals gave promise of better things in the second half, but their play tapered off, and it was only Sommerville who prevented the Celtic augmenting their score. McLean scored a fifth goal for the Celtic. The aptitude of the Celtic forwards in taking their chances really won the match for them.
The Glasgow Herald – Nov 12, 1923
The principal games in the League card were in Lanarkshire, although the leaders were at home—and incidentally as usual had the biggest crowd of the day at Ibrox Park. They were looked upon as safe winners on form, whereas the element of uncertainty attendee the visit of Celtic to Hamilton and the meeting of Airdrieonians and Motherwell. For a short period the encounter between Hamilton Academicals and the famous Glasgow club promised to fulfil the highest expectations and local hopes, as Academicals attacked the Celtic goal with determination and fine purpose and opened the scoring after five minutes play. Further success almost immediately followed, when Collins, the Hamilton centre, shot against the Celtic goalkeeper from close range; but from that point Celtic were the commanding side. In fifteen minutes, by the attractive and finished play of their forwards, they scored four times, and practically put the issue beyond doubt within the first half-hour. Hamilton reduced the margin by scoring a second goal near the interval, but Celtic secured the only major point of the second half, and restored their three goal margin. The winners were unquestionably the cleverer company, but were assisted to some extent by weakness in the home defence, in which Thomson at left half alone showed a true conception of his duties. McLean and Gallagher were exceedingly clever in the Celtic attack, but the latter unfortunately marred his display by unnecessary and foolish acts the evoked the reprobation of the spectators.