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Trivia
- The speculation in the press was that Joe McBride would return for Celtic. There was no real news on his knee injury which had been on and off since the turn of the year.
- For this game the team sheet was left to the last minute and Jock Stein's yard-by-yard inspection of the Love Street pitch. Jinky dropped to the bench with Hughes coming over to the right side and Bertie Auld going to outside left. In came Willie Wallace again after missing the Vojvodina game due to ineligibility and Charlie Gallacher was restored with Chalmers missing out after picking up an injury in Yugoslavia.
- In goal for St Mirren was ex- and future Celtic GK Denis Connaghan. St Mirren were playing with the possibility of relegation looming large in their immediate future.
- This is possibly the first time Tommy Gemmell took the penalty's for the first team.
Review
A mudbath of a game.
Denis Connaghan stood between Celtic and the opener for half an hour before Willie Wallace beat him from a Gemmell cross to give the only goal of the first half. Celtic won 9 corners in the first fifteen minutes.
In the second half Celtic went to town. Lennox and Hughes, who had a great game revelling as he ever did in the heavy-going conditions, quickly added two more to make the game all but finished. Tommy Gemmell then converted a penalty when Wallace was pulled down in the area before Wallace finished off with his second two minutes before the final whistle.
Bertie Auld limped off with a lg injury two minutes from time and was not replaced.
Teams
St Mirren
Connaghan, Murray, Young, Kiernan, Hannah, Renton, Hutton, Bell, Kane, Hamilton (Pinkerton, 68), Adamson
Celtic
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Hughes, Lennox, Wallace, Gallacher, Auld. Substitute: Johnstone
Scorers Wallace 2 (31, 88), Lennox (48), Hughes (53), Gemmell (pen 82)
Referee: R.A.S. Crockett (Dundee)
Attendance: 18,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
