1920-04-24: Celtic 4-0 Ayr United, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Aston Villa beat Huddersfield to lift the FA Cup in a match that featured 21 Englishmen and only 1 Scot, the losing side’s keeper, Sandy Mutch.
  • Rangers look to be heading for the championship as they need only 4 points from their last 3 games and are currently 3 points in front of Celtic.
  • At the Picture House in Glasgow the film showing is “The Wildcat of Paris” starring Priscilla Dean.
  • The Glasgow Herald has an article entitled “Palestine’s Fate” which reports on Zionist rejoicing that the Treaty of San Remo will be incorporating the Balfour Declaration into the peace treaty with Turkey. LINK

Review

Celtic score early to set up a comfortable win.

Teams

CELTIC:

Scorers, McKay; (2), Craig, Watson

 
Referee: J B Stevenson (Motherwell)

Attendance: 12,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

  • Match Pictures

Articles

Match report from The Scotsman, 26th April 1920

[…] The Celtic had an easy win over Ayr United at Parkhead, Glasgow, but the visitors were not so badly beaten as the score would seem to indicate. Three minutes from the start Mackay scored for the Celtic, and before the interval Craig got another goal. After the change of ends Mackay and Watson increased Celtic’s lead.
 
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The Glasgow Herald – 26 April, 1920
Though without the services of several of their usual team, Celtic gave a convincing display in their match with Ayr United, the score 4-0 in no way exaggerating their superiority. The extent of the win was mainly down to the cleverness of the youngest forward line which has represented the Parkhead club for many years.