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Trivia
- In the 89th minute with Celtic pressing for the winner ex-Ranger Jimmy Fleming got the ball, ran upfield, and passed to Terry McGibbon who swung the ball over for Andy McCall to score with the very last kick of the match.
- As Celtic were being beaten by the last kick of the game, Rangers were losing 2-0 at Perth.
- In England biggest win of the day was at Portsmouth where the home team beat Everton, Dixie Dean and all, by 5-1 even though Dean scored the first goal.
- Malcolm Russell a dock labourer was sent to prison for three months, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Saturday, for defrauding the Public Assistance Authority of £34, 10s when he pretended to officials in Edinburgh that he had no means of support for himself and his wife; the truth being that he was in receipt of unemployment benefit from the Ministry of Labour in Leith.
- 40,000 protesters with 3,000 hunger-marchers among their number protested at a rally on Glasgow Green against the provisions of the new Employment Act.
- Mussolini has issued an order to call up the reservists from 1911 which will mean that Italy will have more than a million men under arms.
Review
Teams
AYR UNITED:
Hepburn, Bourhill, Strain, Taylor, Currie, Holland, McGibbon, McCall, Fleming, Fitzgerald, Rodger.
Scorers:
McCall.
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, McGonagle, Napier, Geatons, Paterson, Delaney, Buchan, McGrory, F. O’Donnell, H. O’Donnell.
Referee: W. Webb (Glasgow).
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 25th March 1935, page 5
CELTIC BEATEN AT AYR
UNITED WIN WITH THE LAST KICK OF THE GAME
Scenes of great enthusiasm marked the conclusion of the game at Ayr, where the United secured both points by means of a goal scored in the last minute of the match.
Fleming, the former Rangers' player, had a big part in the success. He secured a forward pass at a time when Celtic had been attacking, raced down the field, and swung the ball across to McGibbon. who turned it goalwards. It was touch and go whether Kennaway would clear, but McCall dashed in and made no mistake.
So near the end was the goal scored that there was no time to centre the ball. It was the last kick of the game which brought the points to the home club.
Ayr United should have had the issue in safe keeping long before the end, but bad luck seemed to dog their efforts as on several occasions the woodwork of the goal intervened between them and success. Notably was this so in the second half when McCall drove hard against the cross-bar from a free kick. Celtic were unlucky in that respect on at least one occasion in the first half, when McGrory, followed a sudden dash up the centre and was unlucky when his parting shot struck an upright with terrific force.
Hepburn had much less to do than Kennaway, although the Ayr club goalkeeper saved a powerful shot by the Celtic centre. While the visitors' half-backs were not so effective as the Ayr trio, their backs stood up to many attacks and they were assisted by the ineffective tactics of the Ayr United forwards.
At times the crowd was treated to glimpses of real Celtic cleverness but for the most part their finishing was weak, and Currie to a great extent, was the big stumbling block.
The attendance would be about 10,000.
