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Trivia
- Dubliner Peter Kavanagh and Buckhaven-born Alex Thomson get top marks from the critics in a good Celtic win.
- Peter Kavanagh scored twice but also was his last game for Celtic
- Motherwell are the League champions for the first time in their history and for the first time for 23 years a club outside Glasgow hare won the title. Their success will be very popular. The weather in Scotland on Saturday was bad. Snow, sleet, and rain fell during the afternoon. East Stirlingshire are Second Division champions.
- The English Cup was won at Wembley or Saturday by Newcastle United who beat Herbert Chapman's "happy family" Arsenal team. It was generally expected that they would be successful. They gained the trophy for the third time in their career, and their success would be all the more gratifying from the fact that they received the cup from the hands of His Majesty the King, who attended the match along with the Queen and the Duke of York. There were over 90,000 spectators. The United had a hard time in the first half, but they got through it well, and thoroughly deserved their victory by two goals to one. It was a keenly fought game, and the Arsenal had to take the field without the services of Alec James, their Scottish, international forward. Joe Hulme, however, was able to play. There were no fewer than six Scots in the winning team, Jimmy Nelson, Roddy MacKenzie, Dave Davidson,Jimmy Boyd,Harry McMenemy and Tommy Lang, so this result was highly popular in Scotland.
- The 1932 F.A. Cup Final, came to be known as the "Over the Line" final as it was thought that Tommy Lang's cross in the lead-up to the winning goal had been over the bye-line.
- Everton were beaten at Middlesbrough, and are not yet safe for the English League championship, though they can hardly be overtaken. Wolverhampton Wanderers are just as certain for the Second Division champions. A defeat for Leeds United prevented them from making sure of promotion.
- Indian Nationalists gathered at New Delhi and attempted to hold the 47th session of the All Indian Congress, despite the Government ban on the proceedings. The police arrived and arrested all the delegates, numbering about 150. The total arrests in connection with preliminary plans and the attempt to hold this forbidden session of Congress number 630.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Cook, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Geatons, McGrory, A. Thomson, F. O’Donnell, Napier, Kavanagh.
Scorers:
A. Thomson, Kavanagh, (2); Napier.
KILMARNOCK:
Bell, Leslie, Nibloe, Nicol, Smith, McEwan, Connell, Gilmour, Duncan, Kelvin, Aitken.
Scorers:
Duncan.
Referee: D. F. Reilly (Port Glasgow).
Attendance: 8,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 25th April 1932, page 5
KILMARNOCK NO MATCH FOR CELTIC
The Celtic won their last home League game of the season even more easily than the score of four goals to one suggests. The, defeated Scottish Cup finalists were really no match for them.
Probably the most interesting thing in the game was the reappearance of McGrory, of Celtic, but he did little to inspire confidence in his complete fitness, although he played fairly well.
Playing with the wind, the Celtic were soon ahead, A. Thomson opening the scoring in twelve minutes. It was thereafter a case of the Kilmarnock’s defence being continually tested by the home attack, and they stood fairly well up to it.
Just previous to the half-hour Kavanagh scored a brilliant goal for the Celtic, and Napier got one from a “penalty”.
After the interval Duncan had a chance to reduce the leeway, but shot badly, and but for a brilliant save by Kennaway Connell would certainly have counted.
McGrory had hard luck in not heading the ball through from a cross by Kavanagh, but in the next minute Kavanagh obtained a fourth score. Then Duncan scored for the visitors.
Only Bell, Nibloe, Smith, and McEwan were notable for the losers.
The Celts were in fine form. Kavanagh and A. Thomson were brilliant, and the defence had an easy day.
