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Trivia
- The game kicked off at 1:00pm and all the shops in the Mount Florida area were closed as an anti-hooligan measure. This keeps the crowd down to 57,806.
- Back in came captain Dalglish having recovered from an ankle knock that had seen him miss the trip to Boavista. However Dean was still out with a leg muscle strain also sustained in the abandoned game against Hibernian.
- Celtic lose their fifth league cup final in six seasons
- Celtic officials critical of Forsyth's treatment on Dalglish during game
- Sean Fallon's only final as caretaker manager.
- Highlights shown on Sportscene and Scotsport.
Review
On a cold autumnal day at Hampden a disappointing Celtic team lost out to Alex MacDonald's fine second half header. Neither side played well in an uninspiring game and Celtic rarely threatened although Callaghan's fine shot late on struck a post.
Rangers' defender Tom Forsyth man marked Celtic's danger man Kenny Dalglish and without Dalglish's inspiration Celtic found they had no creativity. Celtic officials were angered as Forsyth put in several heavy tackles on Dalglish which the referee did not take action against.
Rangers had thrown a surprise by bringing in Colin Stein to their forward line and playing Johnstone in a deep midfield role.
Celtic now looked as if they couldn't cope without the experience of the absent McNeill (retired), Hay (transferred), Connelly (walked out), Murray (injury / retired), Brogan (freed), Johnstone (freed), Deans (injured) and Hunter (loss of form) who would all have been available 12 months earlier.
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, P McCluskey, MacDonald, Edvaldsson, Hood (McNamara), Dalglish, Wilson (Glavin),Callaghan, Lennox.
Rangers:
Kennedy Jardine Greig Forsyth Jackson MacDonald McLean Stein Parlane Johnstone Young Subs: Miller McKean
Goals: MacDonald (67)
Referee:
Attendance: 57,806
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)