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Trivia
- Christmas Day fixture
- This Christmas Day match was played on a normal, working day as Christmas Day was not a public holiday and McInally scored in 23 minutes with Cassidy adding a second on 75 minutes.
- In goal for Saints is Donegal man Billy O’Hagan who played for Linfield before having a distinguished service record in the British Army.
- The Glasgow Herald edition that reported this match had an article from Colorado where a farmer, George Smith has asked his Governor, Mr. Shoup to change the law to allow men to have two wives. LINK
- Also in the Herald is a report entitled “The Freeman Case” detailing the sentence of imprisonment given to two editors of the Freeman’s Journal for reporting the case of a Mr. Quirke who was arrested, taken to prison and flogged by uniformed officers of the Crown.
Review
Teams
SAINT MIRREN:
O`Hagan, Lavery, Allan C Reid, Buchanan, Pringle, Leslie, Halliday, Robert W. Stewart, Willliam Grieve, Anderson,Thomson
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, McStay Murphy, Cringan, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher , McInally, Cassidy, McFarlane.
Scorers: Gallacher, McInally.
Referee: J Bell (Dundee)
Attendance: 18,000
Goals: McInally
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
- Match Pictures
Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 27th December 1920
[…] About 18,000 people saw the game at Paisley between St. Mirren and the Celtic, and the score in favour of the Parkhead team just about hits off their superiority. St. Mirren made one or two changes forward, Grieve and Halliday of the “A” team playing centre forward and outside right respectively. Both these players did well, especially against such a strong-going team. The Saints played a strenuous game in the first half, and Shaw was a trifle fortunate at times to clear his goal. McInally scored the Celtic’s first goal in the first half, and Cassidy the other in the second. It was only be spasmodic rushes that St. Mirren reached the Celtic goal, but it was always a case of so far and no further, for McNair and McStay played a remarkably steady game. St. Mirren’s best men were Lavery, Pringle and Thomson, and the Celtic were well served by their backs, Cringan, and Cassidy.
The Glasgow Herald – Dec 27, 1920
Celtic secured a two-goals margin at Paisley, where St Mirren were disadvantaged through the absence of Love, their usual centre forward. The Paisley team fought the issue creditably, and but for the unflinching defence of McNair and McStay, it would have gone hard with the visitors, whose two goals were registered by McInally and Cassidy, one in each half of the games.