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Trivia
- Pat Stanton announced his retirement from the full time game.
- Celtic were said to be on the move for a new signing. The players mentioned were midfielder Gerry Gow of Bristol City, and George Anderson and Neil Orr of Morton and David Narey of Dundee Utd.
- Leeds Utd were rumoured to be after recruiting Jock Stein as their manager. This was denied by Leeds Utd though Jock Stein was available having not taken up the executive directorship offered by Celtic when it was discovered that he would not have a role in football matters directly but would deal with marketing and fund raising.
- Celtic score two own goals through MacDonald and Lynch.
- Pat Jennings plays against Celtic 12 years after playing against them for Spurs on their American tour.,
Review
Celtic played well but lost crazy goals to an Arsenal side that could have gone up another gear if necessary.
Arsenal played a defensive game content to let Celtic batter at a wall of defenders and an offside trap to then play on the break. Celtic failed to break down the Arsenal defense and paid the price.
Edvaldsson was injured in the first half and subbed at half time.
Teams
Celtic :
Latchford, Sneddon, Lynch, Aitken, MacDonald, Edvaldsson (Casey), Conn, Glavin, McAdam (Wilson), Burns, G McCluskey.
Goals:
Arsenal :
Jennings, Rice, Nelson, Price, O'Leary, Young, Brady, Sunderland, MacDonald (Kosmina), Stapleton, Rix
Goals: Lynch (o.g, 29), McDonald (o.g., 76), Stapleton (83)
Referee: K. Hope (Glasgow)
Attendance: 24,000
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
