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Trivia
- A Wednesday night game and an unchanged team for Celtic though there had been doubts over the fitness of both Johnny Doyle and Ronnie Glavin.
- A gala night at Celtic Park with all the previous League Championship flags on display and all the players that had taken part this season in attendance.
- Celtic's first win over Aberdeen in five attempts this season.And Stein very much wanted to win this match having clinched the championship against Hibernian the previous Saturday.
- Danny McGrain is voted as Scottish player of the year.
- Aberdeen players sportingly applaud Celtic on to the field as champions.
- The Celtic PA man played 'Congratultions' by Cliff Richard at the end of the game as Jock Stein and the players took the adulation of the crowd.
- The Celtic fans had chanted for Stein and refused to leave until he came out to salute them.
- Craig, Dalglish, Glavin and McGrain are selected for the main Scotland squad to face Sweden. Aitken and Burns are included in the U21 squad.
- St Mirren, managed by Alex Ferguson, clinched their promotion from Division One to the Premier League next season, with a win against Dundee. They also announced that they would go full time next season. The Dens Park side missed out with Clydebank having already stolen a march on them.
- Celtic announced plans to clean up the environment around the ground making safer exits and entrances with development of the land of the old railway lines between London Road and Janefield Street.
- On the following night Celtic defeated Partick Thistle 3-2 in a Reserve League match at Celtic Park. The Celtic team was Newman, Gourlay, Burns, P. McCluskey, Edvaldsson, Casey, Gibson, McLaughlin, Wilson, Newman, Lennox Subs Hannah and Temperley. The Celtic scorers were Lennox, McLaughlin and Wilson.
Review
Celtic perform like true champions. Conn, Craig, Glavin and Dalglish all score fine goals after having fine seasons. Celtic have so many options in attack with McGrain at his brilliant best.
The first half was good enough and in the second Celtic threatened to steam roller Aberdeen. Confidence oozed through the team and not one player had an off-night. Conn opened the scoring to the delight of the crowd. Recently returned Drew Jarvie pulled one back for the Dons but Ronnie Glavin answered that putting away a blocked Dalglish shot.
It was Glavin that made both second half goals for Craig and Dalglish to round off a good week for him with his first selection to the full Scotland squad.
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Stanton, MacDonald, Aitken, Doyle, Glavin, Craig, Dalglish, Conn. Subs :Burns, Edvaldsson
Scorers: Conn (19), Glavin (37), Craig (61), Dalglish (86)
Aberdeen:
McLean Kennedy McLelland Smith (Rougvie) Garner Miller Sullivan Davidson Harper Jarvie Graham Sub:Shirra
Scorer: Jarvie (30)
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