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Trivia
- Celtic did not have an. easy time against Clyde, but won the points thanks to a 30-yard shot from Chic Geatons just before the break and a late goal from Frank O'Donnell eight minutes from time.
- In a day of interesting happenings in Scottish League football, pride of place was taken by Heart of Midlothian's stirring victory over Motherwell at Tynecastle. It was the champions' first defeat this season, and incidentally the first time they have been prevented from scoring this season. Jock White was the hero of the game, and had both of the home goals. A remarkable game was seen at Douglas Park, where Cowdenbeath lost no fewer than ten goals to Hamilton Academicals. Alec Herd had four of them and David Wilson three. Fulton ex-Pertershill, a new recruit for St Johnstone, did well against Ayr United, and had two of his side's four goals. Falkirk had their first home win at the expense of East Stirlingshire, their near neighbours.
- The English League leaders—Aston Villa, Arsenal, and Derby County—were all winners. Sheffield United were not good enough to spoil the Villa's undefeated record.
- A Hamburg seaman, Werners Sieck had a fatal accident in Bo’ness docks when he fell from the top rigging of his ship, the Austrian three-masted schooner, Steirmark. Siek had gone aloft to adjust the rigging of the top fore-mast, lost his footing and fell 90 feet to the dock.
Review
Teams
CLYDE:
Stevenson, Russell, Smith, McPhail, Wood, Summers, McGurk, Mayes, Boyd, Howieson, McCulloch.
Scorers:
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Cook, Hogg, Wilson, McStay, Geatons, Napier, A. Thomson, F. O’Donnell, Smith, H. O’Donnell.
Scorers
Geatons, F. O’Donnell.
Referee: T. Small (Dundee).
Attendance: 12,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 17th October 1932, page 15
CELTIC'S HARD STRUGGLE
Although Celtic beat Clyde at Shawfield, their play at times was none too convincing, and it was only after a hard struggle that they emerged on top. They had by far the better of the exchanges and should have had a commanding lead at halftime, but there were only eight minutes left for play when they really made victory safe by securing a second goal.
With the support they received from their half-backs, the forwards, who displayed fine combination in the outfield, should have found goal-scoring easy, but they played too closely near goal, and then, when a chance did come, they failed badly at finishing. Three times in the early stages F. O'Donnell at centre missed open goals, and his continual changing positions with Napier did not improve the work near goal.
Napier, when on the wing, and Thomson were the best of the Celtic forwards, but H. O' Donnell on the left did not impress.
Clyde's defence was magnificent throughout and their first-time methods had a lot to do with the failure of the Celtic attack at goal. The three half-backs also did their part, but were too busy in defence to help their own forwards, who, when they got a chance, always took the quickest way to goal. Moyes and McCulloch had two of the best shots in the game brilliantly saved by Kennaway.
In a hard and interesting first half Celtic were always the superior side in team work, but it was near the interval before they met with success, Geatons from 30 yards scoring a fine goal following a corner kick. Celtic's superiority over their opponents was more emphatic in the second half, but Clyde's defence defied their efforts until eight minutes from the end, when F. O'Donnell took a pass from Thomson and ran ahead to score a second goal.
The attendance was 10,000.
