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28th March The press was not exactly going overboard when it came to Celtic’s chances of reaching the Scottish Cup Final, as these comments may suggest – ‘Some folk have written off the Celtic-Clyde semi-final at Hampden on Saturday as a foregone conclusion. Take it from Hibs, and me, Clyde are no weaklings and Celtic …
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3rd April There was an interesting start to the week. The first –team pool was told to get changed then stay in the dressing-room, the others were directed to go ahead up to Barrowfield. Those of us in the first group looked at each other, a bit bemused but did as we were told, sitting …
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6th April The morning papers were quite clear about the Scottish Cup replay the previous evening – Celtic Storm Stunned Poor Clyde And the report went on to say that we dominated the play and that the Bully Wee just could not get into the match. I would call that a fair reflection of the …
10th April Apart from the injured ones – which at this time included Chopper (ankle), Jinky ( a touch of flu) and Charlie (instep problem), all of whom stayed behind for treatment – the squad left by bus for Seamill on the Monday morning. Once the rooms had been allocated, we headed for the golf …
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On the day following the win over Dukla Prague, the press was unanimous in its thoughts that we were on the road to the biggest occasion of the European season; Wallace’s Goals Put Celtic on Road to Final ‘Celtic wrote the first chapter of a new ‘Lisbon Story’ last night when they beat Dukla Prague 3-1 and …
20th April On the Thursday following the goalless draw against Aberdeen in the league, it was a fairly reserved group of players who boarded a bus at Celtic Park and headed for Seamill. The Boss was noticeably quiet and his aides – Sean, Neilly and Bob – took their cue from him, so the normal …
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The Morning of the Match After breakfast, we had gone for a little walk round the area in which our hotel was situated. I was back a couple of years ago and found that it was not the International any more but was now the Crowne Plaza, although the original layout inside seemed to be …
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26th April 1967 (Days to Hampden: 3) We came back to Glasgow to find that other football matters than our success had also made the headlines. The first was that Third Lanark was in danger of folding. On the day that we played Dukla in Prague, they had met Queen of the South at Cathkin, a …
Morning of the Match I had learned to control my eating patterns before matches so as to feel at my best for kick-off time, so I was up fairly early on that Saturday morning and having breakfast just before 9am. Corn flakes with a banana (or two) on top were the order of the day …
Following the Scottish Cup Final We did not come into training on the Sunday morning, as the Boss had just been winding us up about the Dundee United match. We only found this out on the trip back to Celtic Park from Hampden after the final, which was something special. The streets from the National …