1966-09-03: St Mirren 0-1 Celtic, League Cup

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Trivia

  • Willie O'Neill is the first ever Celtic player to appear as a substitute when he replaces the injured Jimmy Johnstone.Tommy Gemmell went to right wing and O'Neill came on at left back.
  • Substitutes were permitted from the start of the 1966-67 season.
  • St Mirren played in unfamiliar strip of all red.
  • On the previous night Celtic defeated St Mirren 4-0 in a Reserve League Cup match at Celtic Park. The Celtic team was Fallon, Young, McCarron, Henderson, Cushley, Hay, Taggart, Connelly, Quinn, Taylor, Hughes. The Celtic scorers were Taylor, Young, Quinn and Taggart.
  • On the same same day Celtic defeated Glasgow University 3-0 in a Combined Reserve League match at Barrowfield. The Celtic team was Kennedy, Cattanach, Halpin, Henderson, McCarron, Brogan, Goodwin, Junior, J. Clark, Macari, Trialist. The Celtic scorers were Macari 2 and Junior.
  • On the Sunday after this game Jock Stein left on a spying mission to take a look at Celtic's opponents in the first round of the European Cup, FC Zurich. He returned immediately after the game in Switzerland.

Review

A tight game for Celtic. Though they had the upper hand in the first half they failed to score and St Mirren had chances of their own with Simpson having to make some good saves. In the second half Johnstone made the goal taking the ball right to the bye line before cutting it back for Murdoch to score.

Teams

St Mirren:
Thorburn Murray Brown Bell Kiernan Clark Hutton Pinkerton Hamilton Treacy Adamson Sub: Aird
Scorers:

Celtic:
Simpson; Craig, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Johnstone (O'Neill), McBride, Chalmers, Lennox, Gallacher.
Scorer: Murdoch (53)

Referee:

Attendance: 20,000

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  • Match Report (see end of page below)

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