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Trivia
- Jimmy McGrory got the only goal of the game in 30 minutes, but the weather limited the football on view, though the efforts of new recruit from Camelon Juniors, David Corbett (brother of Celtic player Willie), for Ayr and the two Peters, Wilson, and McGonagle, of Celtic were noteworthy.
- The Scottish League competition on Saturday was played under the worst possible weather conditions. It was the most stormy Saturday afternoon of the season and crowds were low. Rangers again lost a point in their draw with Hamilton Academicals and Celtic are now level top with Rangers, though the Ibrox club have a slightly better goal difference and two games in hand.
- In the Scottish Second Division one game was undecided, that at Dumbarton, where the Raith Rovers were the visitors. They were in danger of dropping a point when the game was stopped owing to the stormy weather.
- In England leaders Arsenal continued with their winning ways away from home when disposing of Huddersfield 1-0 thanks to a late Ernie Coleman goal from a smart Alec James pass. Manchester City played the second half of their match against Chelsea without their goalkeeper Nicholls and lost 3-1.
- A young woman and a child were killed and eleven other persons injured, one of them dangerously, by a street disaster which occurred in Edinburgh during the gale late on Saturday afternoon. With the wind raging at 76 miles an hour a chimney head on a high tenement above Leith Street, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the centre of the city, gave way, and tons of masonry crashed down into the street.
Review
Teams
AYR UNITED:
Hepburn, Fleming, Ure, Taylor, McLeod, McCall, Corbett, Smith, Merrie, McGrath, Brae.
Scorers:
CELTIC:
Wallace, Cook, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Geatons, R. Thomson, A. Thomson, McGrory, Napier, H. O’Donnell.
Scorers
McGrory.
Referee: J. Burdon (Glasgow).
Attendance: 6,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
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Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 19th December 1932, page 5
CELTIC'S NARROW WIN AT AYR
Boisterous weather conditions, fortunately without rain, marred the play throughout at Ayr, where the United fought hard, but unavailingly, for a draw against the Celtic, who, secured-both points by one goal. It was scored half an hour after the start by McGrory. McLeod and R. Thomson rose together following a cross from the left, and both failed to get the ball in mid-air. When it dropped to the ground the Celtic centre forward, lying unmarked, drove it into the net.
Though it was a simple looking goal, the Celtic were full value for their lead at the interval, as, apart from missing several chances, the woodwork of the goal came to Hepburn's rescue on two occasions.
Great difficulty was experienced by both sides in controlling the ball, and many well-meant efforts were made to look crude. The Celtic displayed all their old craftiness forward, and often had the home defence guessing.
Real ding-dong football was provided in the closing twenty-five minutes, and Ayr United's attacks were more than the visitors had bargained for. McCall sent in a great shot, and Wallace, the Celtic goalkeeper, was almost beaten. He palmed the ball outwards, and Brae, rushing in, missed the best chance of the game, and, as it proved, the last chance for the Ayr team.
Corbett, from Camelon Juniors, more than paid his way for the United, and danger threatened from several of his crosses. The Ayr club's forwards compared unfavourably with those of the Celtic.
O'Donnell and R. Thomson did good work. The Celts were well served too by McGonagle and Wilson.
On the Ayr side, Ure stood up well to the Celtic attacks, McCall was again pick of the half-backs, and forward Corbett and the veteran Smith made the better wing.
The attendance would be about 6,000.
