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Trivia
- John Divers was carrying a heavily bruised thigh from the Hearts game.
- An experimental set-up from the Celtic management – or more Kelly jockeying?. Divers was fit and played. Billy Price was dropped and in came John Clark. Frank Brogan after his convincing debut against Hearts was moved over to the left wing, Mike Jackson came back at outside right and Bobby Carroll was rested.
- The SFA finally got around to dealing with a set of players that played in an advertised game without the permission of their clubs or the SFA in Spain in the previous closed season. Each player was fined £50 – about a week's wages then – and warned about their future behaviour. The five were Billy McNeill and Mike Jackson of Celtic and D. Hilley, M. Gray, A Harley, J Gallagher all of Third Lanark, and J. McFadzean (St Mirren). Three other players who took part were censured but not fined.
- Jim Mallan, centre forward and the son of ex-Celtic Jimmy Mallan was looked at by Celtic as an apprentice prospect.
Review
A scrappy game at the start with both teams having chances but neither side catching fire. Hughes had a goal chalked off for offside following a move which involved all the forwards. Brogan in his second first team appearance did well. Despite a strong appeal for a penalty towards the end of the first half it was still goalless at the interval but Dunfermiline's best defender, Cunningham had to be carried off the field with a leg injury.
Cunningham came back on at the start of the second half as centre forward but was clearly out of the game. Celtic piled on the pressure. After eight minutes Cunningham limped off and did not reappear. Celtic finally made the breakthrough after a move started by MacKay and finished by Divers. McDonald was then booked for upending Clark. Before the end Hughes added two further goals.
Teams
Dunfermiline:
Connachan; Fraser, Cunningham; Thomson, Williamson, Miller; McDonald, Smith, Dickson, Melrose, Peebles.
Scorers:
Celtic:
Haffey; MacKay, Kennedy; Crerand, McNeill, Clark; Jackson, Chalmers, Hughes, Divers, Brogan.
Scorers: Divers (60), Hughes 2 (77, 86)
Referee: A T J Cook (Edinburgh)
Attendance: 15,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
