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Trivia
- Waterford move the game to Landsdowne Road in Dublin to accommodate the expected huge crowd and make it all ticket.
- Celtic took 18 players to Dublin, David Cattanach and Danny McGrain travelling. Paul Wilson had been due to travel but was taken ill on the Tuesday before leaving Glasgow. Absent were Jimmy Johnstone (muscle strain), John Hughes (still recovering from injury), Jim Brogan (recovering from a virus), Tommy Gemmell (flare up of ankle injury). The Celtic party stayed at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin. Ronnie Simpson travelled too as a guest of the club.
- Kick off is at 4pm in the afternoon as the ground had no floodlights.
- Celtic sell their entire 10,000 ticket allocation and fans flooded into Dublin from all around Ireland and from Scotland.
- Ex-Manchester Utd legend Shay Brennan is the Waterford manager and Waterford earn £25,000 from this game.
- Fighting breaks out behind the goal amongst Celtic supporters. Media reports that Northern Irish fans were involved with local fans from Dublin.
- Game was delayed at half time until order was restored and bottles and cans cleared from the pitch. The Danish referee had to make an announcement threatening to postpone the game before the game could restart.
Review
Celtic’s sublime performance was in stark contrast to the ugly crowd scenes and public disorder.
Celtic scored from kick off when Hood passed to Lennox to run down the left and his cross was side footed home by Wallace.
Waterford were lively in the opening stages and Matthews was a threat and he claimed a penalty after a collision with Willimas but no award was given.
Macari scored the goal of the game with a brilliant back heel from a head corner. Murdoch scored the third with a trade mark thundering shot and after this crowd trouble broke out. Murdoch made it 4-0 at half time.
During the interval the referee pleaded for order as the Gardia cleared the field of people and missiles. Despite the trouble not one arrest was made.
In the second half Celtic made the second leg a formality with three more goals as Stein pushed on his subs Chalmers and Davidson.
Teams
Waterford:
Thomas, Bryan, Brennan, Maguire, Morrisey, McGeough, Casey, Hale, O’Neill, Buck (Power), Matthews.
Scorers:
Celtic:
Williams, Craig, Quinn, Murdoch, McNeill, Hay,Connelly, Macari, Wallace (Davidson 57), Hood (Chalmers 36), Lennox.
Substitutes: Fallon, Dalglish
Scorers: Wallace 3 (18 (secs), 54, 56), Murdoch 2 (26, 28), Macari 2 (17, 86)
Referee:K Rasmussen (Denmark)
Attendance: 50,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Evening Times 22nd October 1970
RTE
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0922/1166695-violence-at-celtic-waterford-tie/
Crowd trouble at Lansdowne Road during a European Cup tie between Waterford and Glasgow Celtic. Waterford facedGlasgow Celtic in the first leg of their second round European Cup tie at Lansdowne Road in Dublin. During the first half of the match, after Celtic score their third goal, a brawl breaks out on the terraces at the Lansdowne Road end.
A lot of nasty stuff going on behind the goal Celtic are attacking into at the moment.
One of the Celtic fans brandishes a flagpole and uses it a weapon. The crowd scatters in panic, with some football fans taking refuge on the pitch.
I think they can forget about football.
For twenty minutes running battles rage up and down the terraces. At half-time the Danish referee Kaj Rasmussen delays the start of the second half until order is restored and bottles and cans cleared from the pitch. At the final whistle the score is Waterford 0; Glasgow Celtic 7. An RTÉ News report broadcast on 21October 1970. The commentator is Jimmy Magee.