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Trivia
- Drawing 1-1 on 50 minutes Celtic then added goals by Johnny Crum and George Paterson from the penalty spot.
- Glasgow Herald reports that a crowd of 7,000 were at Celtic Park last night to watch the Alliance match between Celtic "A" and Galston. Interest centred on Celtic's Indian player Mohammed Salim who plays in bare feet, swathed in bandages. Celtic won 7-1 but Salim did not trouble the scorer.
- Football throughout the country suffered from a heat wave on Saturday. In Scotland many of the games were of a poor standard, and players were obviously not at their best in the heat-wave conditions.
- The English season opened, with few surprises, although Sunderland, the champions of last season, were defeated by Sheffield Wednesday, a club in the relegation zone in April last.
- The blazing sun could not dry up the enthusiasm of some 814,000 spectators who watched the English league matches.
- W. R. ("Dixie") Dean, Everton's international centre-forward, carried off chief honours scoring against the cupholders, Arsenal, and equalling the English League record with 352 goals.
- Reports from Madrid are of a big battle in the Province of Estremadura, south-west of the capital. It is reported that the Moorish troops, who were used in the capture of Badajoz, and whose excesses in that city have been reported, are again being employed by the rebels in an endeavour to capture Toledo,
Review
Teams
ALBION ROVERS:
Morrison, Miller, Beath, Waddell, Bruce, McFarlane, Stark, Tom Lyon, Dudley, Grant, Rice.
Scorers:
Dudley.
CELTIC:
Foley, Hogg, Boyle, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Delaney, Buchan, Fagan, Crum, Murphy.
Scorers:
Fagan, Crum, Paterson.
Referee: W. Smart (Fife).
Attendance: 20,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 31st August 1936, page
CELTIC'S CLEVER WIN
An exciting and interesting game, marred by a section of the crowd at the close, was seen by 20,000 spectators at Coatbridge, where Celtic mastered Albion Rovers in clever fashion.
The play throughout never lacked thrills, and, despite the frequency of free-kicks, was fought in an admirable manner. The Rovers' changed defence—Miller came in for J. Waddell at right back—stood up well to the onslaught by the clever Celtic forwards. The clearances on the whole showed confidence, and the defeat of the Rovers could only be attributed to the superior play and tactics of the Parkhead team.
At the start play was fairly even, and Dudley, in the first minute, just failed to get possession from a pass from Rice, and missed a fine opportunity. Celtic led at the Interval by one goal. That followed strong attacking play by Celtic, interrupted by short periods when the home forwards reached Foley. In such cases the somewhat loosely working forward line were weak finishers. The best shot came from McFarlane and went over the cross-bar.
Fagan and Buchan gave considerable trouble to the home defence, Murphy had some clever crosses, and Delaney often closed in to endanger Morrison's charge. The opening score came from Fagan, and was well deserved, a free kick by Geatons being cleverly turned into the goal.
Celtic continued their pressure on the resumption, and a breakaway by Stark, which gave Dudley a chance to head the ball past Foley for the equaliser, originated in a fault in the Celtic defence.
Crum and Paterson (penalty) gave the visitors the victory.
During the second half, when Lyon and Delaney met with mishaps, a section of the crowd caused a disturbance on the terracing as a result of which one man was arrested.
Bruce was the mainstay of the Coatbridge defence and he was well supported in the rear by Stark, who was also clever in the forward raids, but Celtic overshadowed their opponents, Delaney, and Murphy were good wingers and the whole front line combined to good effect, with a steady half-back line to help.
