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Trivia
- Tommy burns ankle injury was progressing but was still keeping him out. MacDonald played despite picking up stitches in a head wound against Clyde in the Glasgow Cup semi on Wednesday night.
- Joe Filippi put in a transfer request.
- Massive roars at full time when it is announced that Partick Thistle have beaten Rangers 2-1 at Firhill.
- Celtic play in change strip of green shirts, white shorts and green socks.
- In the Reserve League on the same day Celtic drew 1-1 with Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. The Celtic team was Bonner, Fillipi, Lynch, Duffy, Young, Casey, Mackie, Greenfield, Nicholas, Crainie, Halpin Subs Feeney and Reid. The Celtic scorer was Mackie.
Review
Celtic are on fire at the moment and Killie were 5-0 down by the 52nd minute.
McCluskey is on the verge of a Scotland call up and McGrain is back to his overlapping best but Davie Provan is Celtic's best player on current form.
Although it's early days Celtic go top of the League at the end of the first month
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| Celtic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 5 |
| Aberdeen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
| Partick Thistle | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 |
| Rangers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 |
Teams
Celtic:
Latchford, Sneddon, McGrain, Aitken (Lennox), MacDonald, McAdam, Provan, Davidson, McCluskey, MacLeod, Doyle. Sub:Edvaldsson
Scorers: McCluskey 3 (1, 46, pen 53), Davidson 2 (29, 33)
Kilmarnock:
McCulloch, McLean, Robertson, Jardine, Clarke, McDicken, Gibson, Maxwell, Bourke (Doherty), Clark, Street (Hughes).
Referee: A Ferguson (Giffnock)
Attendance: 26,000
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