Author: Jim Craig

In the days after Celtic’s loss to Dundee in the League Cup, two disasters pushed football off the front pages of the papers;-   23rd August The East German cargo ship Kathe Niederkichner runs aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth. All 50 on board survive.  Tragically, not all passengers on a plane in …

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27th August 1965 League Cup:   Celtic  3 – 0   Dundee United      Att: 36,000       Young(Pen), Chalmers, McBride  Celtic: Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Chalmers, Divers, McBride, Lennox, Hughes.   POWER  MAN  HUGHES  COMES  BACK  TO  BUST  UNITED

On the morning of the 5th sectional match for Celtic in the League Cup, the big headlines in every paper were from Ibrox ;- Willie Henderson Shock for Rangers   I WANT AWAY ‘Rangers manager Scot Symon confirmed that the Scottish international had asked for a transfer and that his case would be dealt with by …

Read more “1st September 1965: Fifth League Cup Match Preview”

Both the first team and the second team were in action on this day in 1965. As might have been expected, it was a full house for the first team version at Fir Park but the reserve team encounter at Parkhead also proved to be popular. Indeed, what a crowd was there to see it!

This was a great day for the editors of the sports press. Both halves of the Old Firm were in action and neither was a certainty to qualify from their respective sections. With one game left, the positions were;- P W D L F A Pts P W D L F A Pts Celtic 5 …

Read more “4 September 1965: Final League Cup Section Match Preview”

There was a crowd of 27,000 inside Dens Park on 4th September for the final – and crucial – sectional League Cup match. For this vital game, Jock Stein had done a little bit of tinkering with the forward line, which read Chalmers, Divers, McBride, Lennox and Hughes. From their results so far, the teams …

Read more “4 September 1965: Dundee v Celtic & Season Update”

The first of the season’s inter-League matches was played on the 8th September 1965, when the Scottish League met the Irish League at Ibrox. Normally, this was not an encounter to set the pulses racing – with the Scots record by far the superior – but on this occasion, there were extenuating circumstances to make …

Read more “8-9 September 1965: League Meets League”

Celtic’s second league match of the campaign in 1965/66 was against Clyde at Parkhead. The Bully Wee had finished 7th in the league championship of the previous season – 3 points ahead of Celtic – but had got off a bad start in the new season by failing to qualify from their section in the …

Read more “10th September 1965: Getting ready for Clyde”

11 September 1965 – League:     Celtic  2  –  1  Clyde  Att: 26,500                 Young (pen), Gemmell The team’s form in the previous match – the win over Dundee in the League Cup by 3 goals to one – had obviously made a decided impression on Jock Stein, as he picked the same side for the next …

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