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Trivia
- This was the postponed game from the 2nd January which was called off with a frozen pitch.
- Third Lanark looked to be in serious trouble. On the weekend before their manager resigned. From finishing third from top in the Division six years before they had been relegated, gone to part time, gone through four, now five managers, had trainers resign and groundsmen leave and the latest was a threat by the players to go on strike. They had also been ordered by the SFA to pay their debts to the SFA or face debarment from further competition and there had already been several warrant sales at the club.
- Snow was due in Glasgow and the game was in doubt again. The hay covering was not layed down as the snow on top of the hay would have rendered the hay fairly useless and have made it hard to retrieve the hay.
- Celtic named an unchanged side immediately before this game to the one that had beaten Dundee on the Saturday. It had been thought that Joe McBride might make a return as he was free of the leg injury picked up between Christmas and New Year.
- Celtic played in change strip of all green.
- Morton manager Hal Stewart brought the full Morton team to watch the game.
Review
Celtic pulverised the Clyde side.
There was no other word for the performance which looked like one way traffic in the second half.
Clyde played neat football in the first half and were unlucky to go behind to a Chalmers goal and equalised through Gilroy.
But in the second half the Bhoys were rampant.
Gallacher put them ahead with a shot from a Chalmers passed and Stevie got his second of the night.
Then Gemmell added a cracking volley from 30 yards and Bobby Lennox finished a move one minute later.
Teams
Celtic:
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Gallacher, Lennox. Substitute: Auld
Scorers: Chalmers 2 (12, 72), Gallagher (54), Gemmell (74), Lennox (75)
Clyde:
McCulloch, Glasgow, Mulheron, McHugh, Staite, Anderson, McFarlane, Hood, Gilroy, Stewart, Hastings Sub: Clark
Scorers:Gilroy (32)
Referee: W. Mullan (Dalkeith)
Attendance: 38,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
