| Match Pictures | Matches: 1968 – 1969 | 1968-69 Pictures |
Trivia
- Joe McBride and Bobby Murdoch were both out with injuries. The team was not named till immediately before kick off. The front line was shuffled with John Hughes out with a leg knock and George Connelly coming in on the right and John Clark came in for Bobby Murdoch with McBride recovering from his back injury
- At Celtic Park, on the same day, Celtic Reserves lost 4-2 to Hearts Reserves. The Celtic scorer was Quinn with two goals.
Review
Celtic went top of the league with this hard fought win equal on points with Dunfermiline but ahead on goal average.
With Hughes, Murdoch and Johnstone out the team took some time to find their feet. They fought hard in the first half with the wind in their favour but could not get the ball past Cruickshank. Chalmers got the goal that settled it in the middle of the second half, coming from a header from a Tommy Gemmell cross. Gemmell had earlier been carded.
Willie Wallace injured his ankle in this game to add to the list of Celtic casualties.
Teams
Hearts
Cruickshank, Sneddon, Mann, Townsend, E. Thomson, MacDonald, Ford, Hamilton, Moller, Traynor, G. Fleming (Miller)
Scorers:
Celtic
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Clark, McNeill, Brogan, Connelly, Wallace, McBride, Chalmers, Lennox. Substitute: Macari
Scorer Chalmers 76
Referee: J.H. McKee (Kirkintilloch)
Attendance: 34,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
