1942-03-21: Celtic 6-2 Queen’s Park, Southern League Cup

Match Pictures | Matches 19411942

Trivia

  • Celtic & World War Two
  • The Southern League Cup was a regional Scottish football competition held during the Second World War, due to the suspension of national competitions. Held between 1940 and 1946, the competition involved all teams from the Southern League and was played as four groups of four with the group winners forming the semi-finals. In the final season, due to additional teams, the competition doubled in size with quarter-finals for the eight group winners.

Review

John Riley‘s big moment – Four goals!

Teams

Celtic:
Culley, Hogg and Dornan; MacDonald, Corbett and McLaughlan; Delaney, Crum, Riley, Divers and Murphy
Goals: Riley 4, Delaney 2

Queen’s Park:
Laird, Brownlie and Mennie; Harris, Thomson and Cross; Mackintosh, Blyth, Wilkie, Dixon and Aitkenhead
Goals: Dixon, pen., Mackintosh 69

Referee:Mr RC Scott, Glasgow
Attendance:7000

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