| Match Pictures | Matches: 1944 – 1945 |
Trivia
- Celtic & World War Two
- WW2: Battle of Bastogne intensified; Budapest a flaming inferno
- Attendance: 70,000 reported in newspaper report in the Herald but Sunday Post & Record stated 90,000. Attendance reports notoriously unreliable.
- On 2nd January 1945, albeit a Wartime game in the Southern League, Ex-Celt Leslie Johnston scored six as Clyde beat Dumbarton 7-1 at Shawfield. Clyde’s other scorer that day was also a Johnston, Leslie Johnston’s brother George.
Review
George McLachlan of The Sunday Post says that Celtic’s stringing together of seven wins in a row was all due to “luck”!
Tense game in difficult underfoot pitch. Celtic’s win could have been ever more emphatic but for missed chances by McPhail and Paton.
he Daily Record says “The refereeing was excellent”
Teams
CELTIC:
Miller, M MacDonald, P McDonald; Lynch, Mallan and Paterson; Delaney, McPhail, Gallacher, McLaughlan and Paton
Scorers: Paterson (48mins)
Rangers:
Jenkins, Gray and Shaw; Little, Young and Symon; Waddell, Gillick, Smith, Duncanson and Johnstone
Referee: Can’t be found but The Daily Record says “The refereeing was excellent”
Attendance: 50,000
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