2nd March The reports in the press were quite positive, stressing the quality of our performance in Novi Sad, while lamenting the lapse in concentration that led to the only goal. And there appeared to one injury worry for the weekend game;
The Morning of the Match By Friday, there had been no mention of the make-up of the team to face St. Mirren, and this continued on to the morning of the match. We reported to Parkhead around noon, did not do any kind of warm-up as the pitch was flooded and there was no point in …
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I first met Tam Gemmell in the spring of 1965. I had signed for the club in January 1965 and although I was still halfway through the fourth year of the five-year course in dentistry – and should have been attending medical classes at the Royal Infirmary most mornings – I managed to ‘dog-off’ sometimes …
6th March ‘Joe McBride, of Celtic goes into Killearn Hospital on Wednesday and he will have his cartilage operation on Friday morning’. That was the news in one of the evening papers on the Monday before the Vojvodina tie, a bitterly disappointing moment but hopefully one which will lead to a return to fitness for …
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Before the Match Like the rest of the guys, I had an early lunch and then went back to bed for a couple of hours. However, the timing of all this was quite important. For some reason, which I was never able to work out, we did not meet for a pre-match meal that afternoon, …
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The Morning After the Night Before Like a good boy, after all the euphoria and hysteria inside – and outside – Celtic Park, I eventually made my way home, had a wee celebration with my family plus a couple of uncles who lived nearby and hit the pillow just about midnight. Both matches against the …
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Morning of the Match I was up early and walking round the district where my parents lived. Everyone I passed wanted to have a few words, which was very kindly but made my walk a fairly stop/start affair. Still, I could feel the pressure lessening on the outside of the ankle although it was nowhere …
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13th March The big news in the press on the Monday after the Queen’s Park match was the draw for the semi finals of the Scottish Cup. It was – Celtic v Clyde or Hamilton ( Hampden) Dundee Utd v Hibs or Aberdeen (Ibrox) The other big story was the Jimmy Johnstone incident from the …
Other Results While our guys were beating Dunfermline at Parkhead, the other results in the First Division had been working out as follows – Airdrie 2 – 3 Clyde Ayr Uninted 1 – 4 Rangers Dundee United 1 – 1 Motherwell Falkirk 0 – 1 Kilmarnock Hibs 2 – 1 Dundee Partick Th 1 – …
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Pre-match For the second time that day, I made the trip from my parents’ house over to Celtic Park. Curiously enough, I suppose I should have felt a little more apprehensive heading to Parkhead for a first-team match but in actual fact, I had been much more worried going over in the morning to go …
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