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Trivia
- Danny McGrain played for Scotland in midweek against Czechoslovakia in a 3-1 win in the European Championship qualifiers.
- Second bottom of the League playing the bottom of the League team. Some wags had it that this was the relegation battle!.
- Celtic play in unusual change strip of all yellow with red numbers.
- Tom McAdam scores his first Celtic goal.
- On the Thursday prior to this game Celtic drew 1-1 with Clydebank in a Reserve League match at Kilbowie. The Celtic team was Baines, Sneddon, Kay, Casey, McWilliams, Newman, Gibson, McLaughlin, Temperley, Dowie, J. McCluskey Subs Godzik and Mackie. The Celtic scorer was Newman.
Review
This was Celtic's first league win of the season. They started brightly but faded later and the fans make their feelings clear at the end that these recent performances are unnacceptable. Whilst a portion of the crowd struck up with 'what a load of rubbish' they were soon drowned out by a larger proportion who continued to exhort the team to better. Truthfully though, this was a pretty inept performance and well below the standards that had come to be accepted. Even the great McGrain was below form and the team has lost confidence.
The end of the month found Celtic in their worst position in the League for many a season with 3 points from a possible 12.
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| Aberdeen | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 11 |
| Dundee Utd | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 10 |
| Motherwell | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | +4 | 7 |
| Rangers | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 7 |
| Hibernian | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 6 |
| St Mirren | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 6 |
| Partick Thistle | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 5 |
| Celtic | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 3 |
| Ayr Utd | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 3 |
| Clydebank | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | -11 | 1 |
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, McGrain, Lynch, Edvaldsson, MacDonald, Aitken, Doyle, Glavin, McAdam, Burns (Dowie), WilsonSub: Craig
Scorer: McAdam 23
Clydebank:
Gallagher Abel McLaughlin Fallon McCormick (Houston) McNaughton McColl Hay Colgan Larnach McCallan Sub: Lumsden
Scorer:
Referee: T Muirhead (Stenhousemuir)
Attendance: 20,000
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