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• John Divers sits on the ball as Celtic secure a win against a side reduced to 10 men after John Mooney was ordered off.
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CELTIC:
McKay; Hogg and Morrison; Geatons, O’Neill and Paterson; Gould and Carruth; Crum, Divers and Murphy.
Scorers:
Murphy, Crum.

ST. MIRREN:
Wilson; Logan and Craven; Mooney, Milliken and Kelly; Boyd and Brady; Linwood, Yorston and Deakin.
Scorers:
Brady.

Referee: J. Thomson (Burnbank).
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The Glasgow Herald – Dec 4, 1939

CELTIC’S FIRST VICTORY

On the home front the feature of the day was provided by Celtic, who registered their first victory in the west section of the Scottish League. Their previous six games had yielded only two points from two draws.

Celtic and Ayr United now move away from the bottom of the table.
































If Gould had a fault, it was a tendancy to be overstrong with his passes, but ultimately he found Divers, who had veered across field, and the latter, actually sitting on the ball for a split second, lured Wilson out. But Divers smartly recovered, swept the ball inside, and Crum's scoring task was a sinecure.