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Trivia
- Played at Ibrox. Celtic supporters and all the pundits had Celtic already through having beaten them 5-0 at Love street on the Monday night.
- Back in came Jim Kennedy and John Hughes.
- Mike Jackson who had been missing since mid February had a cartilage operation and would be out for a while.
- Game stopped for 16 minutes on 70 minutes with St Mirren 3-0 up as terracing fighting amongst Celtic fans spills into a pitch invasion. Bottles were slung from the top of the west terrace and as fights broke out the supporters spilled out onto the pitch. As the police got on top of the situation the invasion continued at the other end of the ground and within minutes the entire ground was alive with people fighting. Seven mounted police appeared and helped to clear the pitch before play could continue. Both teams were taken off the park whilst the police cleared the field.Play was resumed with a ring of police around the ground.
- Celtic chairman Robert Kelly is said to have conceded the tie to is St Mirren counterpart during the pitch invasion.
Review
Like chalk and cheese between this game and the previous against St Mirren in the League. St Mirren were the better team by far and Celtic chose the semi-final to have perhaps their biggest off day of the season with no one playing well../ Despite having a monopoly of the play in then second half they could not score.
Teams
Celtic:
Haffey; MacKay, Kennedy; Crerand, McNeill, Clark; Brogan, Chalmers, Hughes, Divers, Byrne.
Scorers: Byrne (83)
St Mirren:
Williamson; Campbell, Wilson; Stewart, Clunie, McLean; Henderson, Bryceland, Kerrigan, Fernie, Beck.
Scorers: Fernie (7), Kerrigan (32), Beck (33)
Referee: A McKenzie (Coatbridge)
Attendance: 56,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
