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Trivia
- John Hughes was suspended for the first two weeks of the season following the SFA Referees Committee decision at the end of the last season for collecting three cautions.
- Joe McBride dropped out of the combined Glasgow Select side for the Wednesday night game against Chelsea for Charity at Hampden. Joe picked up knee and ankle knocks at Roker and was substituted by Bertie Auld for the last 10 minutes of that game.
- The Celtic open trial was played on Monday the 14th . All non-injured staff were set to play including the two Brazilian trialists. At the last minute they were not allowed to set foot in the game due to problems with their registrations. A number of youngsters played and were cited including a 16 year old George Connelly, Michael McGowan, Jimmy Quinn, Gerry Sweeney and Tony Taylor.
- In the Reserve League Cup Celtic A beat Dundee Utd A 3-1. The team was Simpson, Craig, McCarron, Brogan, Cushley, O'Neill, Connelly, Divers, Quinn, Sweeney, Taylor.
- Celtic warmed up in the full emerald green strip then changed into the hoops before kick off. Dundee Utd too had a new strip to show off of all black with white trimming and scarlet and white socks.
- Ex Celt Bobby Carroll, who had transferred from St Mirren to Dundee Utd during the closed season, made his debut and scored against his old team.
Review
After 7-0 and 5-0 pre-season wins Celtic were brought down to earth.
Dundee Utd started well and fast and had early chances. It was Bobby Murdoch with his sweeping passes around the field however who looked to be the best footballer on the park. Dossing, the Arabs huge centre forward presented the most danger for Celtic. At the other end Gallacher had two chances for Celtic. Dundee Utd scored first on the half hour when ex-Celt Bobby Carroll latched onto a ball straight through the middle. Celtic started the second half more actively looking for the equaliser. Dundee Utd however were not content to sit on the one goal lead and pushed for a second. Celtic got the equaliser through a diving header by Bertie Auld of a Chalmers cross. Auld injured himself and whilst he was off having treatment Gillespie grabbed a second for Dundee Utd.
Motherwell 1-0 Dundee
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts |
| Dundee Utd | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Motherwell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Celtic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Jock Stein.
"We can do better. We know that and we will be trying to do better on Wednesday night. But we are not blind here. We were beaten by a good team and the Dundee Utd players deserve the credit for playing so well."
About the team to face Motherwell.
"Its too early to say yet but there will definetly be no wholesale sackings. We put out what we thought was our best team in the circumstances and if I made a lot of changes after just one game that would be an admission that the team selection was bad.
"I would definetly wait till I see John Hughes and Joe McBride back in the side before I make any firm judgement.
"Joe is coming along but it is too early to say if he will play on Wednesday."
Teams
Dundee United
Mackay, Millar, Briggs, Munro, Smith, Wing, Carroll, Gillespie, Dossing, Mitchell, Persson
Scorers Carroll (30), Gillespie (67)
Celtic
Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Johnstone, Gallacher, Chalmers, Lennox, Auld.
Scorer Auld (66)
Referee: A.F.J. Webster (Falkirk)
Attendance: 25,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
