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Trivia
- The Quarter Final replay played the next day again at Firhill. Mike Haughney came in at right back to deal better with Ring and Sean Fallon was moved up to centre forward, not the first time he had played there but probably the most important, replacing captain McPhail who was considered unfit and had not performed well, despite scoring, in the first game. Mallan was dropped after having a fairly torrid time in the first encounter between the sides. His place was taken by McGrory to deal with the menace of Linwood who had had a terrific first gamer for Clyde.
- The Herald's reporter clearly left the game early as the result was reported as Celtic 4-2 Clyde in the next day's Herald
Review
Not as rivetting a game as the first but all the tactical changes appeared to pay off. Clyde were less effective in break away attacks and Celtic were more effective in defence than in the first game.
Teams
Celtic:
Hunter; Haughney, Rollo; Evans, McGrory, Baillie; Collins, Walsh, Fallon, Peacock, Tully.
Scorers: Fallon 2 (41, 57), Peacock (70), Walsh (80)
Clyde:
Miller; Mennie, Haddock; Campbell, Somerville, Long; Buchanan, Friel, Linwood, Robertson, Ring.
Scorers: Friel (74), ? ( )
Referee: W J Brown (Bellshill)
Attendance:
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
Pictures
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Articles
Celtic's Decisive Win in Replay
Glasgow Herald, 21st July, 1951
Celtic 4, Clyde 1
The crowd at Firhill Park last night did not get a repetition of the previous evening's match between Celtic and Clyde; the heat and the probable effects of Thursday's tremendous encounter precluded that. They did see, however, considerably more of the arts and crafts of football – almost certainly because Clyde did not offer such stern opposition as they had done in the first match, and Celtic, with the confidence that accrued from a first half lead and early consolidation of it after the interval, played with less aggressiveness but with much more skill.
Celtic made three changes in their team and all the newcomers performed successfully, Haughney giving Ring few chances and McGrory reducing the menace of Linwood to a few isolated forays.
The announcement of the third change – Fallon for McPhail at centre forward – led to animated discussion on the terracing and when Fallon began apparently with the single idea of chasing everything and everybody, and risking injury to his opponents and to himself in the process. One felt that this was merely a hopeful experiment Celtic had tried. The Irishman was not simply froth and fury, however that Clyde learned to their cost. He introduced several clever flicks into the forward line and began to make intelligent use of the open spaces. He shot past Miller in 22 minutes, but had the goal disallowed presumably because he had put in his boot as Miller dived to save but four minutes from half time he scored a goal that left no one in any doubt of it's merit. Taking Tully's pass in his stride with his left foot, he had the ball in the net in a twinkling from just inside the 18 yard line.
When 12 minutes after the interval he scored just as impressively from the same range with his right foot, after Peacock had headed the pass to him, it had to be admitted that Celtic had discovered a centre forward, though in view of the fact that he has played in the position in Ireland and also during the club's recent tour of the United States and Canada, he is hardly a discovery.
At any rate his second goal finished Clyde, who had played reasonably well in the first half and might have scored three times if Linwood and Ring been more accurate with their shots. In 70 minutes after Fallon had for the third time in the match landed in the back of the net without the ball, he headed on to Peacock a corner kick from Tully and in went Celtic's third goal. Friel scored for Clyde four minutes later from Linwood's pass, but that was but a gesture and 10 minuted from the end Walsh headed another goal for Celtic from Collins's free kick.
Miller, who several times bore the brunt of Fallon's charges, kept goal courageously and efficiently, but none of the other Clyde players recaptured the form of the previous game. The inside men were almost completely sorted out by superlative wing half backs Evans and Baillie.
There was much less panic in the Celtic defence though Rollo on one occasion made a hare-brained tackle on Buchanan and Hunter is still apt to try to clutch when he should punch clear. The contrasting individual styles of Collins and Tully provided the most entertainment moments in the forward play.