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Trivia
- Celtic avenge the league defeat the week before and progress in the Scottish Cup, with veterans McNair and McMenemy starring, but the real stars are the fans according to the Herald Report (below).
- The Glasgow Herald reports that the restriction on motor transport workers in Dublin and other areas of Ireland which has been in place for the past 9 weeks has been lifted. It also reports that 75 Sinn Fein prisoners recently arrested in Munster have boarded sloops for passage to English prisons. LINK
- The Herald also reports that the commander of the Red Army, Mr Trotsky has informed the press that prisoners from the British, French and Italian military missions in Russia have been captured in Siberia and are being well looked after.
- An advert in the Herald informs readers that the original vamp, Theda Bara, will star in the silent movie 'Salome' at the Grand Central cinema Glasgow.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Scorers: McLean, McInally, Cringan
Referee: G. W. Hamilton (Kilburnie)
Attendance: 34,786
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Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 9th February 1920
Dundee had a considerable amount of bad luck in their game against Celtic at Dens Park. Celtic got a goal in the first minute which Watson, the Dundee goalkeeper, should have saved. McLean crossed a low ball, and Watson unaccountably allowed it to roll over his hands into the net. To what extent this goal affected the final result it is difficult to say, but Watson at least never fully recovered from its unnerving influence, His subsequent play was very shaky. Dundee's misfortune was increased when Nicoll was injured, The centre half gallantly endeavoured to keep his place, but was limping badly, and in the second half he began in the outside left position, but finished in his original role. The Celtic scored immediately after the interval through McInally, who made full use of a bit of very slack play by the Dundee defence. Dundee almost went to pieces afterwards, and it was not surprising when Cringan beat Watson for the third time. Dundee rallied, and McLaughlin scored a pretty goal, but even after making the fullest allowance for the fact the luck of the game was with Celtic, vistory went to the cleverer team.
The Glasgow Herald, Feb 9, 1920
As was generally expected, Celtic upheld tradition, also their reputation as cup fighters, by ousting Dundee from the competition, immediately after losing a League game at Dens Park, and any slight hopes entertained of retaining the championship. The winners were advantaged in having two veteran players, inured by nearly twenty years of stern cup warfare, and just as McMenemy’s craft made all three goals possible for the last club to hold the trophy, so did McNair’s coolness ensure the city team retaining the advantage thus gained, when, late in the game, Dundee laid siege to their opponents’ goal. Unfortunate to lose a goal within a few seconds of the beginning of each half, Dundee were further handicapped by an accident to a player that vitally affected their defence, and it was not surprising that a team always in arrears and difficulties should succumb at the finish. Even more commendable than the fine spirit showed by the Dundee team when confronted by defeat was the sporting instincts of a record crowd which surged over the touch-line at times, yet did nothing to bring about a premature finish and so secure a replay. Cup ties are so often decided on win, tie, or wrangle lines as to make their forbearance a further proof that in Dundee at least one can be an enthusiast and a sportsman.