| Match Pictures | Matches: 1977 – 1978 | 1977-1978 Pictures |
Trivia
- An unchanged team again!
- Billy McNeill faces up to his old mentor Jock Stein as Aberdeen manager. Though Aberdeen were top of the league and pipping Rangers, Jock Stein said that no favours would be given or expected.
- Lucius won the Grand National on this day.
- On the same day Celtic drew 0-0 with Aberdeen in a Reserve League match at Pittodrie. The Celtic team was Baines, Mackie, Kay, Stanton, McWilliams, Munro, Coyne, Ward, Craig, Wilson, Conn. Subs Godzik and Temperley.
Review
Aberdeen are neck and neck with Rangers in the title race but Celtic did them no favours with a fighting display. Edvaldsson had a splendid game for Celts in defence and even managed to get upfield to score.
All told this was a good game with both sides cut-'n'-thrust at each other. Glavin got the first with a hard low shot direct from a free kick and as Aberdeen fell away through the first half Glavin just missed getting a second when his header went narrowly over.
The Dons started the second half sharper but Celtic matched them with Tommy Burns in fine form. Aberdeen equalised thru a slick move between Steve Archibald and Duncan Davidson. Back came Celtic immediately with Shuggie prodding the ball home in a goal mouth stramash. As the second half wore on Aberdeen began to get the better and Dom Sullivan made and finished a fine move to split the points.
The start of the month saw the table like this with between 4 and 8 games to play to the end of the season
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| Aberdeen | 31 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 51 | 25 | +26 | 44 |
| Rangers | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 62 | 36 | +22 | 44 |
| Hibernian | 29 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 43 | 31 | +12 | 33 |
| Motherwell | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 33 |
| Dundee Utd | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 23 | +8 | 30 |
| Celtic |
28 |
12 |
4 |
12 |
45 |
37 |
+8 |
28 |
| Partick Thistle | 29 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 38 | 48 | -10 | 27 |
| St Mirren | 31 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 43 | 51 | -8 | 26 |
| Ayr Utd | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 38 | 58 | -20 | 19 |
| Clydebank | 28 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 51 | -37 | 12 |
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, Sneddon, Lynch, Aitken, MacDonald, Dowie, Glavin, Edvaldsson, McAdam, Burns, Doyle (G McCluskey) Sub: Casey
Scorers: Glavin (33), Edvaldsson (58)
Aberdeen:
Clark, Kennedy, Ritchie, MacMaster, Garner, Miller, Sullivan, Archibald, Harper, Jarvie, Davidson. Subs: Rougvie, Strachan
Scorers: Davidson (57), Sullivan (67)
Referee: W Anderson (East Kilbride)
Attendance: 24,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
