Match Pictures | Matches: 1952 - 1953 | 1952-53 Pictures

Trivia

• Debut game for Tony Hepburn. Tony came in place of Charlie Tully who was at Windsor Park, Belfast playing against England. Tully scored both Ireland's goals in a 2-2 draw and confounded his opposite number Alf Ramsey.
  

Review

Celtic scored in 2 minutes with a flyer from Peacock. New bhoy Hepburn made the second, beating Redpath and Shaw before centring for Fallon to head home. Motherwell were described as 'amazingly inept'. Walsh scored from the penalty spot in the second half after being puled down by Paton.

Teams

Celtic:
Bonnar; Boden, Meechan; Evans, Stein, Baillie; Hepburn, Walsh, Fallon, Fernie, Peacock.
Scorers: Peacock (2), Fallon (13), Walsh (69, pen)

Motherwell:
Johnstone; Kilmarnock, Shaw; Cox, Paton, Redpath; Sloan, Humphries, Kelly, Forrest, Aitkenhead.
Scorers:

Referee: J Mowat (Glasgow)
Attendance: 30,000

Articles

• Match Report (see end of page below)

"What a happy mood Celtic expressed! Effervescence bubbled in the efforts of every player. Even Tony Hephurn, making his senior debt, isplayed a series of touched that evoked nostalgic recollection of Delaney or Connelly on their best days. And to complete the menat picture Fallon, from one of the young winger's passes headed a goal the prototype of which can be contained only in Jimmy McGrory's album of "Famous Goals I Have Scored"."

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