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Trivia
- The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald (below) cannot agree about the method by which Frank Murphy scored Celtic's third goal. The Edinburgh paper has him beating St Mirren goalkeeper James McCloy with a "smart header", while the Glasgow paper avers that it was a "ground shot past McCloy". A Celtic great, Frank Murphy was said to be a quick and clever player, and to cause this confusion among the press-men he must have been very quick and very clever on the day. Whatever the method, the Croy man's goal in 70 minutes, added to two scored by Willie Buchan in 3 and 35 minutes sealed a comfortable win for the bhoys.
- Rangers beat Aberdeen 2-1 at Ibrox and prevented the Dons from improving their position at the top of the Scottish League. The cup-holders, as yet unbeaten in the championship, were particularly strong in defence.
- The English League leaders, Portsmouth, were defeated by Sunderland, the champions, who are gradually recovering from a bad start to the season.
- "Dixie" Dean, the Everton and England centre-forward, celebrated his 400th League game for the Goodison Park club by registering a "hat-trick" against West Bromwich Albion.
- Ugly scenes followed the final whistle in the Wolverhampton Wanderers v. Chelsea First Division match, at Wolverhampton, where Chelsea won by the odd goal of three. A crowd of about 100 spectators surrounded the referee on the pitch. They were held back by police and players, and the official reached his dressing room in safety. An even larger crowd then surrounded the players' entrance. The police kept the spectators back, and although there were boos and jeers, no damage was done, and eventually the crowd was dispersed.
- Two men of the Scottish Ambulance Unit—named as Frederick McMahon, Ravenhill St. and Joe Boyd Ulsterville Gdns. both Belfast—have been captured by Franco’s troops in Spain. Their ambulance was fired on and captured near Carabanchel military hospital. The Scottish ambulance unit of 19 men and one woman—Miss Jacobsen of Glasgow—left Scotland for Madrid in September.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Delaney, Buchan, McGrory, Crum, Murphy.
Scorers:
Buchan, (2); Murphy.
SAINT MIRREN:
McCloy, Baird, Craven, Kelly, Cunningham, John Miller, Ferguson, Callan, McKenzie, Kenneth Miller, Gall.
Referee: P. Craigmyle (Aberdeen).
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 9th November 1936, page 4
CELTIC NOT EXTENDED
Although St Mirren were a well-beaten team at the finish at Parkhead, they certainly made Celtic play well to get on top.
The big difference between the teams lay in the halfback line, where Celts were infinitely superior. The home forwards were full of running, and, ably supported by their halfbacks, it was a prolonged battle of attack versus visiting defence. On the rare occasions on which the visitors' front rank did get moving, they showed a good understanding, but lacked thrust and finishing, power.
The champions went ahead three minutes after the start, Buchan driving the ball past McCloy after the keeper had blocked good effort from Delaney. Following a good spell by the visitors, Murphy raced to the corner flag and flashed over a ball, which Buchan hooked in the net from 18 yards, a splendid goal.
McGrory was prominent at the restart with two fine runs, but Cunningham, the Visitors' centre-half, was keeping a very tight hold on him. The visitors seemed to lose all hope, however, when Murphy got well up to a corner kick from Delaney and beat McCloy with a smart header.
Celtic were not unduly extended, their sound half-backs giving the team a very well balanced appearance. Kennaway was very safe, with Delaney and Buchan best of the forwards. Cunningham was easily the best St Mirren player on view, and his work all through was good. McCloy, Miller, and Callan were best of the others. .
The attendance was 10,000.
