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Trivia
- During the week Roger Hynd quit as manager of Motherwell after 10 months in the job. John Haggart took over as acting manager.
- Celtic were reported to the English FA by Carlisle for allegedly tapping up their player, Ian MacDonald, in a potential £100k bid. They had approached the player before approaching the club.
- Alex Ferguson's Industrial Tribunal hearing against St Mirren went ahead. St Mirren had sacked him before he was appointed manager of Aberdeen. St Mirren alleged that he was helping himself to £25 per week which was to be used for helping schoolboy footballers at the club.
- Roy Baines, who had already asked to go on the transfer list, came in as goalkeeper with Latchford dropped.
- Celtic started brightly with new £100,000 man Murdo MacLeod making his debut after signing from Dumbarton on the Thursday 2nd November. He was Celtic's best player on the day.
- Paul Wilson returned to Parkhead for the first time after his £50,000 transfer to Motherwell. Before the game he made a fine gesture of running over to Murdo MacLeod to shake his hand and wish him well on his debut.
- Motherwell defend in depth and score twice on the break to record an unlikely win.
- Partick beat Rangers 1-0 at Firhill.
- The Reserves played at Fir Park losing 2-1 with a team of Bonner, McGrain, Russell, Lumsden, Newman, Dowie, Mackie, Weir, Lennox, Doyle, McPhee. Subs Halpin and Reid. Lennox was the scorer.
Review
Celtic's frustration grows as bottom club Motherwell claim an unlikely win.
Celtic started well and they made several chances with McAdam missing them but he did get the opening goal from a good Provan cross.
Motherwell soaked up the pressure and struck on the break when Stevens scored after good play by Paul Wilson.
Motherwell got an unlikely win through a McLaren goal with Celtic's defence all over the place.
Only Aberdeen have scored more goals than Celts but only bottom team Motherwell have lost more.
Teams
Celtic:
Baines, Sneddon, Lynch, Aitken, MacDonald, Edvaldsson, Provan, MacLeod, McAdam, Burns , Conn. Subs: G McCluskey , Casey
Goal: McAdam (12).
Motherwell:
Rennie, Carr, Wark, McLaren, McVie, Stevens, Marinello, Pettigrew, Larnach, Clinging (Lindsay), Wilson. Subs:- Shanks
Goals: Stevens (38), McLaren (81)
Referee: E Pringle (Edinburgh)
Attendance: 21,000
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