1967-05-03: Celtic 2-3 Dundee United, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • This was a Wednesday night game, the fixture having been postponed from the Saturday because of the Cup Final.
  • Nine Celtic players were named in the Scotland pool to play Russia at Hampden on the 10th May. This incited Jock Stein to lambast the SFA for hampering Celtic in their forthcoming European Cup Final.
  • Rangers won through to the European Cup Winners Cup final in Nuremberg where they would face Bayern Munich. Thye beat Slavia Sofia 2-0 on this night at Ibrox.
  • Celtic needed one point to win the league and lost out on this occasion. All the Celtic players had come through the Cup Final against Aberdeen unscathed. However Chalmers was carrying a number of knocks from hard games against Dukla Prague and Aberdeen and in the end he dropped to the bench with Charlie Gallacher coming in. Bertie Auld also sat this one out with John Hughes coming in.
  • At half time Celtic ball boys paraded the Scottish Cup around the ground.
  • Dundee United complete a memorable league double over Celtic.

Review

A somewhat subdued Celtic performance saw the front line, despite the efforts of Gallacher and Hughes, failing to spark into life. They got off to a good start when Tommy Gemmell converted a penalty when Lennox was pulled down in the area. With the score at 1-0 to Celtic and the Scottish Cup paraded at half time the Celtic support must have felt that the League title would be wrapped up that night but it was not to be.
Dundee Utd opened the second half strongly and on 55 minutes they were level. A quick break from defence saw Hainey score. Wallace restored the Celts lead but this was again countered seven minutes later when Gillespie flicked a header past Simpson., and three minutes later Graham scored the winning goal.

Teams

Celtic
Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Gallacher, Wallace, Lennox, Hughes. Substitute: Chalmers
Scorers Gemmell (27 pen), Wallace (61)

Dundee United

Davie, Millar, Briggs, Neilson, Smith, Moore, Berg, Graham, Hainey, Gillespie, Persson Sub:Dossing
Scorers Hainey (55), Gillespie (68), Graham (71)

Referee: D. Small (Kelso)
Attendance: 44,000

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Celtic v Dundee Utd, League, 3/5/67