| Match Pictures | Matches: 1974 – 1975 | 1974-1975 Pictures |
Trivia
- Party atmosphere as Celtic unveil their ninth successive League championship flag. Mrs Devlin (wife of director Tom Devlin) does the honours after being driven round the Parkhead track in a black limo.
- Legendary ex Celt Willie Fernie returns to Parkhead as Killie boss.
- Celtic played in unusual change strip of all yellow with green collar, cuffs and piping on socks.
- Jock Stein goes on a short break to England after lambasting the behaviour of some drunken Celtic fans in recent games in the Saturday match programme. In the article he made a stop-it-or-I-quit statement which was taken seriously and applauded by the media..
- In the Reserve League on the same day Celtic lost 3-2 to Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. The Celtic team was Hunter, McNamara, Quinn, Hood, MacDonald, Little, McLaughlin, Bone, Deans, Lynch, Murphy Subs Burns and Casey. The Celtic scorers were Lynch and Bone.
- Youngsters Graham Barclay (GK), George McCluskey (WH), John Mulholland (IR) and Bernie Little (OL) were selected for the Scotland Youth team.
Review
Celtic destroyed hard working Killie with four goals in the last 10 minutes.
McGrain is regarded as man of the match with his overlaps and thrusting runs.
Celtic fans sing 'It's magic you know, it's gonnae be 10 in a row !'
Teams
Celtic:
Connaghan, McGrain, McCluskey, Connelly, McNeill, Callaghan, Johnstone, Murray, Dalglish, Davidson, Wilson, Subs: Brogan, Lennox.
Scorers: Davidson (37), Johnstone (80), Dalglish (84), Wilson (88), Murray (pen 89)
Kilmarnock:
Stewart, Maxwell, Robertson, McCulloch, Rodman, McDicken, Cook, Fleming, Morrison, Sheed, Smith. Subs: McSherry, Whyte
Scorers:
Referee:R B Valentine (Dundee)
Attendance: 27,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
