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Trivia
- Snow which had fallen during the Saturday game against Partick Thistle continued to lay and the midweek reserve game against Morton called off with the snow.
- The Reserves midweek game against St Mirren went ahead at Celtic Park with them winning 2-1 against St Mirren. They played a trialist, Jim Duffy at right half, from Maryhill juniors, and he was duly signed but would stay with Maryhill to the end of the season. The U18 side which included most of the Groundstaff boys also played Queen's Park full team and won 9-0 with goals from Charlie Nicholas (4), Kevin Byrne (4) and John McCluskey.
- George McCluskey and Roy Aitken played for Scotland U21s in Portugal winning 3-1 with McCluskey scoring, on the Tuesday night.
- Snow fell again during the week. Celtic were due to play St Mirren at Love Street on the 2nd December but this was called off with the pitch iced up. The ground thawed and conditions moderated somewhat during the following week.
- Both Tommy Burns and Alfie Conn were back fit with Burns starting and Conn on the bench.
- SFL announce that all stand tickets are sold out for this Wednesday's LCSF against Rangers at Hampden. Enclosure and ground tickets are still available at £1.50 and £1.20 respectively.
- On the same day Celtic defeated Aberdeen 3-2 in a Reserve League match at Pittodrie. The Celtic team was Latchford, McGrain, Russell, Weir, Young, Conroy, Mackie, Lumsden, Lennox, Glavin, Halpin. Subs Reid and McPhee. The Celtic scorers were Lennox, Halpin and Mackie.
Review
Games between these two are fast becoming confrontational affairs. Aberdeen won the bookings count by 3-2 in a scrappy bad tempered game but Celtic were incensed at having two strong penalty claims turned down.
Conn was so outraged when he was felled in the area by Kennedy that he was booked, much to the fury of the Celtic support.
Teams
Celtic:
Baines, Filippi, Lynch, Aitken, MacDonald, Edvaldsson, Provan, MacLeod, McAdam (Conn), Burns, Doyle Sub: Casey
Aberdeen:
Clark, Kennedy, McLelland, MacMaster (Archibald), Rougvie, Miller, Strachan, Fleming, Harper, Jarvie, Sullivan. Sub: Cooper
Referee: W Anderson (East Kilbride)
Attendance: 24,000
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