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Trivia
- The injury crisis was further added to with Jim Casey now added to the list of casualties with a leg muscle strain. With McGrain out, Stanton out, Conn out, Andy Lynch was made captain.
- Rod Stewart attended this match. Britt Ekland stayed in Dundee hotel.
- Edvaldsson is substitute and after the game hands in a written transfer request. This does not go down well with the fans as Celtic are currently third bottom in the table.
- Glasgow council puts a limit of 56,700 on Parkhead's capacity for future games unless ground improvements are made.
- Roy Aitken plays in the unusual position of right back.
- In the Reserve League on the same day Celtic drew 2-2 with Dundee Utd at Celtic Park. The Celtic team was Baines, McGrane, Dowie, McLaughlin, McWilliams, Kay, Gibson, G. McCluskey, Temperley, Ward, Lennox. Subs Clifford and Godzik. The Celtic scorers were McLaughlin and Lennox.
- Ex-Celt Willie Fernie was sacked as manager from Kilmarnock. He had been in charge there for 4 years.
Review
This is a morale boosting win for Celtic. Despite going a goal down in 2 minutes Celtic at last showed a bit of fight.
This turned out to be a hard game especiually after going behind to the early goal. But Celtic fought back and showed qualities that had so far been lacking in the play this season.
They equalised from a Glavin penalty when Narey punched a McAdam shot off the line.
Celtic dominated the second half and it wasn't Narey's day when Glavin took a throw in to Wilson and his volley struck Narey and arced high into the net past McAlpine.
Teams
Dundee Utd :
McAlpine, Rolland, Kopel, Fleming, Hegarty, Narey, Sturrock, Wallace, Bourke, Robinson, Payne Subs Rennie, Wallace.
Scorers: Fleming (2)
Celtic:
Latchford, Aitken, Lynch, Glavin, MacDonald, Munro, Doyle, McAdam, Craig (Edvaldsson), Burns, Wilson Subs: Mackie
Scorers: Glavin (pen 37), Wilson (79)
Referee: E. Thomson (Edinburgh)
Attendance: 17,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
