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Trivia
- Celtic win a hard fought and keenly-contested game, by what the Glasgow Herald describes as “masterly tactics”, which brought two late goals from Tommy McInally. LINK
- The Herald also reports that following a tip-off from Dunfermline, police at Alloa stopped a car making it’s way from Fife to Glasgow with 2 senior Sinn Fein members and a large quantity of explosives and guns.
- Also in the Herald an advertisment by the North British Rubber Co. for their Clincher motor car tyres, with prices starting at £5 9s 3d (£5.46).
Review
Celtic win a hard fought and keenly-contested game thanks to two late goals from Tommy McInally.
Teams
FALKIRK:
CELTIC:
Scorers: McFarlane, McInally; (2).
Referee: J. B. Stevenson (Motherwell)
Attendance: 15,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
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Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 6th December 1920
[…] There was a great crowd at Brockville Park to witness what proved to be a stirring encounter between Falkirk and Celtic. The verdict rested with the visitors, who scored thrice to Falkirk’s once, but on the general run of the game a draw would have been quite a fair result. The Celtic came within an ace [?] of scoring in the opening minutesm but Ferguson brought off a remarkably clever save from a great shot by McFarlane. this narrow escape set the Falkirk team on edge, the half-backs in particular rising to the occasion, with the resuilt that the Celts failed to get properly set, and progress, they found, was difficult to make. So well did Falkirk play in the first half of the game that it seemed odds on them taking the leadbefore the interval, but a surprise shot from McLean beat Ferguson all the way, and the situation was reversed. Falkirk put up a great fight in the second half, and their persistent attack was rewarded by a fine goal from the foot of Hamilton. Thereafter the Celtic goal had many wonderful escapes from downfall, but in the last five minutes McInally gave the vistors the points with two smartly taken goals. The outstanding feature of a hard game was the brilliant play of Townsley at centre-half for falkirk. The attendance was estimated at 15,000.
Celtic’s Masterly Tactics
Celtic won at Falkirk 3-1; thereby surmounting one of the obstacles that the Parkhead club annually recognise as such. It was a peculiar game, and on general play perhaps a division of the points would have been a more fitting result. The famous Glasgow club, however, are none the less entitled to all the credit of victory, if only for their judgement and masterly tactics towards the close. With a division of the points imminent, Celtic rearranged their forces by bringing Cassidy , who had been operating at half-back, into his rightful place at inside left, and before Falkirk could reconstruct their mode of meeting the new style of attack McInally, at centre, had made victory safe for Celtic by scoring two finely conceived goals.