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Trivia
- Celtic left for Ukraine on the Monday morning at 10:30 from Prestwick with a party of 18 players and officials. Along with the team that played John Fallon, Willie O'Neill, David Cattanach, Charlie Gallacher, Chris Shevlane and Joe McBride travelled. Along with the officials was club doctor John Fitzsimmonds. Not the least of his tasks was administering to Jock Stein who had not fully recovered from 'flu.
- On the Tuesday the team and officials were corralled up discussing tactics for the forthcoming game. Already down by one goal, having lost the Glasgow leg 2-1, Celtic would need to attack. The line-up was kept secret till 5.00pm on the day of the game. They trained at the stadium on the Tuesday night from 7:00pm and reported the pitch to be uneven.
- The team announcement saw Jimmy Johnstone come in at outside right with Steve Chalmers missing out, and John Hughes in on the left. For Kiev goalkeeper Bannikov was preferred.
- Celtic, reigning European Champions, are ignominiously knocked out in the first round 3-2 on aggregate.
- Kiev fans protested outside the Ukrainian parliament because tickets were being sold outside of Ukraine.
- £1 tickets being sold for £15 on the black market
- Controversy abounds as the Italian referee orders off Murdoch and disallows a good goal by Hughes which would have saw Celtic through at 2-0 (3-2 aggregate).
- Kiev were knocked out in the next round 3-2 on aggregate by Gornik Zabrze.
- Back in Scotland Rangers won their tie against Dynamo Dresden to progress to the next round of the Fairs Cup 3-2 on aggregate. And Dundee Utd also progressed in the saame competition with a 4-2 aggregate win over DWS Amsterdam.
Review
The Italian referee Sbardella was the villain of the piece in Kiev for Celtic. AS particularly pernickety referee, he blew loud and often for every petty misdemeanour and infringement and rarely played any advantage. No rhythm could be built up and the play was constantly broken down into short episodes broken by the referee's whistle.
In 59 minutes he harshly sent off Murdoch for a second yellow after the Celtic player had thrown the ball to the ground in frustration after a foul was given against him.
With 10 men Celtic attacked freely and in 61 minutes Lennox scored from a narrow angle from Auld's chipped free kick.
Celtic thought they had done it when Hughes scored after the Kiev keeper had blundered by dropping the ball at his feet. The referee disallowed this for a foul on the keeper which was a terrible decision.
Medvid had the ball in the Celtic net but however he had illegally used a hand to put the ball past Simpson. This was seen by the linesman who flagged and the referee chalked the goal off.
Byshovetz scored in 90 minutes after Kiev had caught a tiring Celtic side on the break.
Celtic were out but there was much anger towards the Italian referee's performance.
Bertie Auld was injured during the game and returned to Glasgow limping with a foot injury.
Teams
Dynamo Kiev:
Bannikov Schegolkhov Sosnichin Levchenko Krulikovsky Turvanchik Byshevetz Sabo Medvid Serebranikov Pusach
Scorer: Byshevitz (90)
Celtic:
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Lennox, Wallace, Auld, Hughes.
Scorer: Lennox (61)
Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)
Attendance: 85,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
