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Trivia
- It emerged that Roddy MacDonald had played most of the Rangers game the previous week with a painful ankle injury but had refused to come off.
- Celtic's first Premier league game at Celtic Park.The team change saw Glavin recalled and MacDonald out with Connelly and Ritchie on the bench again. Harry Hood was to see a specialist about his foot injury.
- Celtic took on Jim 'Chang' Smith as a trialist, a left sided midfielder and a free agent. The 23 y.o. had played against Celtic in each of the games in Ireland and done enough for Sean Fallon to look to how he fitted in. He would be at the club for at least two months.
- Bobby Lennox has the honour of scoring the first Celtic hat trick in the new league set up.
- Highlights shown next day on Scotsport.
- On the previous night in the Reserve League Celtic lost 7 – 2 to Dundee at Dens. The Celtic team was Hunter, Gourlay, Baillie, Casey, Aitken, Innes, Ritchie, Smith, McCluskey, Little, McLean Subs McLaughlin and McGrane. The Celtic scorers were McLaughlin and McLean.
- McGrain and Dalglish were named in the in the Scotland side to face Denmark in Copenhagen on the 3rd. They both played in a 1-0 win for Scotland. Pat McCluskey also played for the U23s who also won 1-0. He was booked and injured during the game.
- Frank Welsh was released on a free in early September and had a trial with Coventry City, the club Jim Brogan had joined. He would return to Scotland to trial for Hamilton Accies in October before finally finding a home with Kilmarnock in February 1976.
- Jock Stein, clearly still recovering, is given a standing ovation as he attends a game for the first time after his accident.
Review
Celtic comprehensively beat Dundee with the evergreen Lennox scoring yet another hat trick.
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Edvaldsson, P McCluskey (Connelly), Lynch, Glavin, McNamara, Callaghan, Wilson, Dalglish, Lennox. Subs: Ritchie
Scorers: Lennox 3 (37, 70, 78), McNamara (80)
Dundee:
Allan, Wilson, Stewart, Phillips (Sinclair), Johnston, Martin, Anderson, (Gemmell), Ford, Hoggan, Gordon, Purdie
Referee: E Thomson (Edinburgh)
Attendance: 25,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
