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Trivia
- On January 3rd, the whole Celtic team and Jimmy McGrory watched St Roch's fall to Cambuslang Rangers – the Junior 'Old Firm' tie. For St Roch's Jim Brogan who was booked to sign for Celtic in the coming season, scored twice. Also signed up was Benny Rooney from Petershill.
- It emerged that Bertie Auld was in fact fit to play but was involved in transfer negotiations and therefore Celtic were loathe to play him.
- Alec Byrne had been to see a specialist to try and sort out the shoulder injury he sustained at Ibrox against Rangers in the previous game.
- Billy McNeill was selected as captain for the Scotland U23 side to face the Second Division Select..
- In came Charlie Gallacher for another game at outside right with Stevie Chalmers moving to inside left and Fernie moving to outside left.
- The pitch was icy and the day gloomy with fog.
Review
Celtic were twice ahead and twice pegged back by an injury-riven Third Lanark, and lost to a goal caused more or less by the icy conditions. Divers got the opener from a pass from Gallacher. Third Lanark almost immediately equalised when Haffey yet again pushed out a fairly innocuous looking cross directly to an opposition player and Harley scored. Celtic's second on 28 minutes was well crafted with Fernie and Peacock winning an opening for Divers to fire in a shot which could only be parried and Chalmers was the first to the rebound. As it began to snow Thirds came back again Hilley and Harley combining well for Harley to get his second.
Despite the snow neither team was ready to give up and both sides had good attempts in the second half. The winner came when Goodfellow was put through and he managed to slip the ball past McNeill then shoot against Haffey before prodding the rebound home with McNeill and Peacock in close attendance.
Teams
Celtic:
Haffey; MacKay, Kennedy; Crerand, McNeill, Peacock; Gallacher,Divers, Conway, Chalmers, Fernie.
Scorers: Divers (13), Chalmers (28)
Third Lanark:
Robertson; McGilivray, Lewis; Reilly, McCormack, Cunningham; Goodfellow, Hilley, Harley, Gray, McInnes.
Scorers: Harley 2 (15, 35), Goodfellow (70)
Referee:
Attendance: 22,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
