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Trivia
- This match played as Shaw, McNair, Dodds, McAtee and McMenemy were on Scottish League duty at Turf Moor, Burnley where they helped Scotland clinch the British League Championship with a 3-2 defeat of the English League. Andrew Jackson the Boro defender, originally from Cambuslang would have been a team-mate of ex-Celt Donnie McLeod and both died in the Great War and are side by side on a plaque the Teessiders commissioned to honour four of their former players who had died during the war.
- The same Celtic players had been with the Scotland squad in Belfast on 14 March and that game caused the postponement of the visit of Hearts to Parkhead, which will now take place on Tuesday 24th, while the scheduled match for Saturday 21st was replaced by this friendly against the Teessiders.
- On Saturday, David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech to Liberals at Huddersfield said of Ulster Protestants: “They say you can persecute the Protestant religion by depriving them of their share in patronage. Well they know something about that, too, in Ulster. When Orange ascendency is complete, how many Catholics do you think get any position of emolution or trust – not one. Scavangers, yes, certainly; road sweepers – let all Catholics come. But just you get a Catholic to apply for a position as Town Clerk, Clerk to a Council Surveyor, or Inspector – they are ruled out as if stricken with the plague.”
- On Sunday afternoon Mr Asquith the Prime Minister was received in audience by the King with regard to the position at the Curragh Camp in Southern Ireland where about 100 cavalry officers are said to be resigning rather than be sent to Ulster in the North of Ireland to take positions against the UVF. Sir John French, who spent most of the day at the War Office was late in the afternoon summoned to Buckingham Palace for an audience of His Majesty, who is taking a keen and anxious interest in the situation.
- Monday 23rd. The by-laws adopted by Rutherglen Town Council have been sanctioned by the Secretary of State for Scotland which will result in the total closing of all places of refreshment on Sundays. During the week the hours of public business will be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturdays till 11 p.m. Yesterday the ice-cream shops were closed all day, but several small shops were open for sale of articles not to be consumed on the premises.
Review
Teams
Celtic:
McKeown (Dumbarton Harp), T. McGregor, Ireland (Dumbarton Harp), Young, Johnston, McMaster, A. McGregor, Gallagher, McColl, Crone, Browning.
Scorers:
McColl.
Middlesbrough:
Williamson, Haworth, Walker, Crosier, Jackson, Malcolm, Stirling, Carr, Elliott, Tinsley, Cook.
Scorers:
Tinsley; (2), Elliott.
Referee: J. C. Brunton (Glasgow).
Attendance: 7-10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday 23rd March, 1914.
Fully 7,000 spectators were present at Parkhead, Glasgow, when this friendly encounter commenced.
Before the game was twelve minutes old Tinsley opened the scoring. A few spasmodic raids by the home forwards had just been indulged in when the visitors broke away, the effort culminating in Tinsley again registering.
On resuming after the interval, the Celtic at once became aggressive, Gallacher having a try which, however, failed to count.
As in the first half, Middlesbrough again set the pace, their first invasion resulting in Carr striking the cross-bar close in.
The Celtic, however, kept plodding away, and McColl, after a nice cross from Browning, smartly netted.
Further trouble was in store for the Parkheaders, however, as Elliott, taking advantage of an apparent misunderstanding on the part of the home defence, had an opportunity of shooting into an empty goal which he at once accepted.
Glasgow Herald, Monday 24th March
The Englishmen throughout gave a fine display, and in the first half scored twice through Tinsley.
After the interval Elliot added a third, while towards the close McColl counted for Celtic.