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Trivia

• Waterford move the game to Landsdowne Road in Dublin to accomodate the expected huge crowd and make it all ticket.
• Kick off is at 4pm in the afternoon as the ground has no floodlights.
• Celtic sell their entire 10,000 ticket allocation and fans flooded into Dublin from all around Ireland and from Scotland.
• Ex Man Utd legend Shay Brennan is the Waterford manager and Waterford earn £25,000 from this game.
• Fighting breaks out behind the goal amongst Celtic supporters. Media reports that Northern Irish fans were involved with local fans from Dublin.
• Game was delayed at half time until order was restored and bottles and cans cleared from the pitch. The Danish referee had to make an announcement threatening to postpone the game before the game could restart.

Review

Celtic's sublime performance was in stark contrast to the ugly crowd scenes and public disorder.

Celtic scored from kick off when Hood passed to Lennox to run down the left and his cross was side footed home by Wallace.

Waterford were lively in the opening stages and Matthews was a threat and he claimed a penalty after a collision with Willimas but no award was given.

Macari scored the goal of the game with a brilliant back heel from a head corner. Murdoch scored the third with a trade mark thundering shot and after this crowd trouble broke out. Murdoch made it 4-0 at half time.

During the interval the referee pleaded for order as the Gardia cleared the field of people and missiles. Despite the trouble not one arrest was made.

In the second half Celtic made the second leg a formality with three more goals as Stein pushed on his subs Chalmers and Davidson.

Teams

Waterford: Thomas Bryan Brennan Maguire Morrisey McGeough Casey Hale O'Neill Buck (Power) Matthews

Celtic: Williams Craig Quinn Murdoch McNeill Hay Connelly Macari Wallace (Davidson 57) Hood (Chalmers 36) Lennox Subs: Fallon Dalglish

Scorers: Wallace 18 (secs) 54 56 Murdoch 26 28 Macari 17 86

Referee:K Rasmussen (Denmark)

Attendance: 50,000

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