1976-05-03: Heart of Midlothian 1-0 Celtic, Premier DivisionThis is a featured page

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Trivia

  • This was Sean Fallon's last game as caretaker manager in Jock Stein's absence.
  • Pat McCluskey captained the team.
  • Despite the low crowd trouble broke out in the covered enclosure.

Review

Kenny Dalglish and Danny McGrain were withdrawn to go to he Scotland training camp for the home internationals. Fallon fielded another inexperienced team and lost narrowly.

There was no segregation in the covered enclosure and serious crowd trouble broke out even although the attendance was a lowly 9000.

Hearts fans stayed at the end to acclaim their players who had lost to Rangers at Hampden the previous Saturday in the Scottish cup final.

Teams


Hearts: Cruikshank, Brown, Burrell, Jeffries, Gallacher, Kay, Aird, Busby, Shaw, Callachan, Prentice Subs: Park Fraser

Celtic: Latchford, P McCluskey, Callaghan, McNamara, Aitken, MacDonald, Lennox, Ritchie, Deans (Wilson), Edvaldsson (Hannah), Burns


Hearts scorer : Brown (52)

Referee:

Attendance: 9,000

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  • Match Report (see end of page below)

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