1968-03-08: Celtic 2-3 Newcastle, Friendly

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Trivia

  • Match played on a Friday evening on a Scottish Cup weekend after both sides had previously been knocked out of their respective cup competitions.
  • Rangers announce they are not willing to play Celtic in the Glasgow Cup semi final at Ibrox on March 11th and withdraw from the competition. They say they are involved in too many competitions.
  • Celtic fans sing: 'The Huns are feart tae play us!'
  • Celtic hit the woodwork four times.

Review

Wyn Davies opened the scoring after a fine cross by Elliot. After half time Celtic pressurised the Newcastle defence but the Magpies scored again when Scott headed in a hard Sinclair cross.

Wallace and Connelly hit the bar before Johnstone scored and in the closing seconds Robson and Lennox scored to round things off.

Teams

Celtic:

Simpson, Gemmell, O'Neill, Murdoch, McNeill, Brogan, Johnstone, Lennox, Wallace, Connelly (Chalmers), Hughes.
Scorers: Johnstone (87), Lennox (90).

Newcastle Utd:
Marshall, Burton, Clark, Elliot, Winstanley, Moncur, Sinclair, Scott, Davies, B. Robson (Iley), T. Robson.
Scorers: Davies (32), Scott (64), T. Robson (89).

Referee W. Anderson (East Kilbride):
Attendance: 42,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

Articles

Celtic v Newcastle Utd, Friendly, 8/3/68, ETCeltic v Newcastle Utd, Friendly, 8/3/68, Herald