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Trivia
- Jock Stein made it plain from the start that he would play a team of predominantly Reserves for this game.
- This was the semi-final played on a Thursday night. On the Wednesday night the Reserves played the second leg of the reserve Cup against Falkirk away. They already held a 4-0 advantage from the first leg. They were already double winners having won the Reserve League and the Reserve League Cup. They duly won 2-1 (6-1 aggregate) making it a clean sweep treble for the Reserves. The same team went out agian for this game except Paul Wilson and Lou Macari dropped out and McCluskey and Chalmers came in.
- Danny McGrain plays in the number 7 shorts.
- Danny's cousin – also named Danny McGrain – plays for Clyde. Also playing for Clyde was future Celt Dom Sullivan
- Bertie Auld and John Clark travelled south on the 3rd May to play in a Testimonial at Bolton Wanderers.
- Dumbarton made a bold attempot to buy their way into Division 1 by taking over and buying Clyde. They offered £40,000. Preparations for the game continued at Shawfield as well as plans for the next season. Dumbarton's offer was not taken seriously.
- With Bertie Auld released on a free, all the teams started looking at bringing him in. Hibernian were the favourites and duly signed the bold 10:30 on the day of this game.
- Lisbon Lions John Clark's last game for Celtic.
Review
Although Stein plays an inexperienced team this is still a shock. This was a young and inexperienced Clyde side and the expectation was that they would to succumb to a Celtic side blended with both youth and experience. With three games in close proximity – the Reserve Cup Final, this game and the first team Scottish Cup Final, this was most definetly the lesser game of the three, but almost exactly the same team played in this game as had played the previous night clearly ruling therse players out of contention for the Cup Final.
Clyde had other ideas. They were keen and met Celtic man-for-man. Too many of the Celtic players tired and Clyde took their chances. John Clark had to go off at the end of the first half with a leg injury. Dom Sullivan had an excellent game for Clyde.
Clyde would go on to meet Rangers in the Final on the 16th August, where they would lose 2-0.
Teams
Scorers: McVie 44 Thomson 82
Celtic:
Lally, McCluskey, Quinn, Murdoch, Gemmell, Clark (White 45), McGrain, Cattanach (capt), Dalglish, Chalmers, Davidson.
Scorers: Davidson 45
Referee: T Marshall (Glasgow)
Attendance: 3,500.
Articles
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