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Second Team in Action As I mentioned last week, the second team had a 2nd X1 Scottish Cup tie against Morton to play on the 8th November at Celtic Park. The side was John Kennedy, Jim Craig, Frank McCarron, Davie Cattenach, John Cushley, Willie O’Neill, Stevie Chalmers, George Connelly, John Divers, Gerry Sweeney and Tony …
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On Cloud Nine From the minute Sean Fallon told me that I was in the side for the match against St Johnstone, I was a very happy man. Or, as a Glaswegian would say : “my heid was in the clouds!”. My Dad was delighted, my Mum less so. She still believed that there was …
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Excited I was really looking forward to the second round second leg match against Aarhus in the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Not only did I know I was playing but the idea of actually taking part in another European tie (I had played in the home leg against Go-Ahead Deventer) just made me feel great. …
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17th November 1965 Celtic v Aarhus Prior to the Match 1) Rest Unfortunately, although I strongly fancied the idea of a nap in the afternoon before the match against Aarhus, there was no chance of me getting one. I was still a student, I was expected to attend classes and see patients, as the …
Read more “17th November 1965 Celtic v Aarhus ECWC 2nd Round, 2nd Leg – Report”
Disappointment Celtic had won the match against Aarhus 2-0, had not really been bothered defensively and had qualified for the quarter-final stages of the Cup- Winners’ Cup but the reaction in the press had not been very flattering and the general public took its cue from that to state their own disappointment.
Pre-Match As I came to on the morning of the match, the noise of the rain battering on the roof of my parents’ house told me all I needed to know. It was going to be a wet pitch! I had hoped for a long lie but Mum needed help with her bags at the …
Read more “20th November 1965 Celtic v Hamilton Academical League – Report”
Man with a Mission While Jock Stein no doubt would have been pleased with the excellent result against Hamilton, he would almost immediately have needed to switch mentally to his other job as manager of the Scotland national team and the game against Wales in midweek. And over the ensuing 48 hours, it was a …
Read more “27th November 1965 Celtic v Kilmarnock – League – Part One”
The Rugby Park Boys This was a match with a difference, for me at any rate! Up till now, I had always been told on the Thursday evening where I was playing and with which side, the reserves or the first team. But that particular week, when there was no reserve match at the weekend, …
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Worries for the Boss This must have been a stressful time for Jock Stein. The post of manager to one of the Old Firm sides is difficult enough but at that particular moment in 1965, Stein was also manager of a Scotland side trying to qualify for the finals of the next World Cup, to …
Read more “Tuesday 30th November 1965: Scotland v Italy Preview #1”
Shambolic! That was the word used in at least one newspaper to describe the situation at Largs where the Scots party for the match against Italy had gathered. In another, the circumstances were laid more bare;- Scots Training at Largs Fades into Farce ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a’gley’ just …