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Trivia
- 1982-83 Glasgow Cup Competition, never got played until the next season.
- Played at Hampden Park.
- 100th Glasgow Cup competition, only 4 days after the Semi-Final with Partick Thistle.
- The match was sponsored by an English newspaper, it was to be called “the Mail on Sunday Glasgow Cup Final”
- Crowd was a low 32,700 due to the Celtic end being closed due to reconstruction. Celtic fans were placed in the north enclosure.
- Jim Melrose makes Celtic debut as a sub.
- Rangers fans taunt Celtic fans with a chorus of 'Where's your Charlie gone – far, far away…' after Nicholas' recent move to Arsenal.
Review
Teams
Celtic:-
Bonner, McGrain, Reid, Aitken, McAdam, MacLeod, Provan, P McStay, McClair, Burns, Crainie (Melrose 65).
Sub:- W McStay.
Rangers:-
McCloy, Dawson, McClelland, McPherson, Paterson, Redford, Prytz, McCoist, Clark, Russell (Cooper), MacDonald.
Subs:- McKinnon.
Goal:- Clark 50.
Ref:- A Ferguson (Giffnock, Glasgow)
Att:- 32,700.
Articles
- Match Report (See Below)
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Match Report
This final came only four days after the semi-final and matched Celtic against Old Firm rivals, Rangers.
The scoreline might not reflect it, but Celtic looked great in this match. Especially in a first half that saw Rangers keeper McCloy under constant pressure.
At half-time, the fans in green and white were confident, at the end of the game they muttered continually – if only.
The whole park was used by Celtic, long passes from defence and midfield, good runs by Danny Crainie, Tommy Burns, Paul McStay and Brian McClair, determined efforts by Murdo MacLeod had the fans on their tip-toes. Every pass landed in the right place but the ball was not reaching goal.
With little more than ten minutes gone, McCloy had earned his wages by turning a Paul McStay drive round the post.
Later, he continued to prove his worth as he came out to cut out high crosses and continually got to the ball first inside his own box.
There was one incident in the first half when the Rangers keeper appeared to bring down Danny Crainie, but no penalty was awarded.
Rangers scored the only goal of the game, five minutes after the restart, when Sandy Clark got onto an Ally Dawson cross to tap the ball home.
Jim Melrose replaced Danny Crainie in the 65th minute and the game continued to frustrate the Celtic support with nice passes but no goals.
