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Trivia
- Celtic started the season with the smallest squad for years, 19 full time, 9 part time and 2 groundstaff.
- The players reported for pre-season on the 19th July.
- Marco de Souza and Ayrton Inacio, two Brazilian inside forwards both from San Paolo were flown in by Celtic for trials. The two 24 year olds would spend 2 months in trial assessment with Celtic. Their arrival came about when the club were contacted by two Portugese agents at the time of the Friendly game in Vienna.
- This was a Benefit game in aid of the Isle of Man Society for Handicapped Children. It was played in the Isle of Man on a Wednesday afternoon with both teams taking the same flight to the island. Celtic took a party of 14 players.
- Only 2500 fans turned up in torrential rain – typical Glasgow Fair weather !
- Joe McBride made his Celtic debut but he sat out most of the game after picking up a gash above his eye.
Review
McBride picked up the gash in a challenge in the tenth minute with Martis. He was replaced by Chalmers who went to outside right with Hughes going to centre forward. Celtic attacked from the off and Chalmers had a shot cleared off the line by Motherwell's young keeper Peter McCloy. Motherwell subbed Howieson for Lindsay with Hunter going to inside right where he proceeded to cause trouble for Celtic. In the 68th minute Delaney advanced unchallenged before laying on a pass for Ian Thomson to score from. Chalmers scored for Celtic right at the end of the game. Just before this bertie Auld walked off with a muscle strain and was replaced by John Divers.
Teams
Celtic:
Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Clark, McNeill, O'Neill; Hughes , Johnstone, McBride (Chalmers), Lennox, Auld (Divers)
Scorers: Chalmers (89)
Motherwell:
McCloy; M Thomson, R McCallum; Aitken, Martis, Murray; Hunter, Howieson (Lindsay), Delaney, I Thomson, Weir.
Scorers: I Thomson (68)
Referee: A Ellis (Halifax)
Attendance: 2,500
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
