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Trivia
- The Celtic party moved on from Toronto to Mexico City – high altitude where the World Cup would be played.
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Game played in the legendary Aztec Stadium, Mexico City, venue for the forthcoming 1970 World Cup finals, on a Tuesday night with a local kick off time of 8:30pm.
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Game was shown live on Mexican television.
- Celtic immediately made plans to return to Scotland and were back home by Friday 7th. A game had been due on the Thursday 6th but this was cancelled.
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Anger in Scotland as Matt Busby is given a knighthood for Man Utd's European Cup victory. No such honour was bestowed on Jock Stein who won it first.
Review
Celtic 0-3 down after 37 minutes. Celtic pulled a goal back just before half time from McNeill. In the rarified atmosphere the Celtic players were given oxygen at half-time and this helped the performance in the second half. Willie Wallace scored a second goal two minutes into the second half.
Teams
Necaxa:
Mote, Perez, Albert, Majewski, Garcia, Regueiro, Romo, Rimari (Peniche), Juarez, Lafuente, Borja
Scorers: Borja 2 (11, 26), Reguiero (37)
Celtic:
Simpson (Fallon), Brogan, O'Neill, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Gallacher (McBride), Lennox, Hughes, Wallace, Chalmers (Quinn) .
Scorers: McNeill (45), Wallace (48)
Referee:
Attendance: 12,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
