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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- The Glasgow Herald states that the record crowd at Paisley was due to the recent victory of St Mirren at Parkhead.
- Celtic avenge a recent home defeat to the Saints by going nap.
- 112 offiecers and 1,140 men were killed in the previous week's fighting.
- 9 people were killed and 31 injured in East Kent when 3 Germans dropped bombs on the towns of Dover, Deal and Ramsgate.
- The Glasgow Herald reports that any day now news is expected of the Shackleton Expedition. LINK
Review
Teams
SAINT MIRREN:
Hillcoat, Marshall, A Reid, R Reid, A Dixon, Callaghan, Gray, Phillip, Bruce, Steele, Brown
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: McColl; (2), Gallacher, McAtee, Browning.
Referee: A. Allan (Glasgow)
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald Monday March 20th 1916
UNHEALTHY RIVALRY
When the Scottish League decided to allow clubs to pay their players the sum of 20S weekly, and double that amount if at the end of the season the balance in hand warranted the increase, many people imagined that the professionals would also plead the exigencies of wartime and husband their energies, as the club treasurer did his resources. Those who took that view of the paid player knew him slightly or not at all; those in touch with football were aware that the professional had the amateur’s love of the game as a pastime apart from a desire to share in the financial benefits accruing therefrom. Of this we have abundant proof in England, where players have given their services freely and gratuitously to clubs new and old, engaged in raising over £5000 as a contribution to various War Relief Funds, and in Scotland, where League football is conducted on purely business lines, the modification consisting of a slight curtailment of available dates and a considerable reduction in wages. Far from altering their methods to suit the altered remuneration, our players have taken the various competitions as seriously as in the past; indeed, if fault is to be found it is in some of these mistaking personal feeling for healthy rivalry, and acting in a manner prejudicial to the interests of their clubs and the game in general. We had several instances in Saturday’s League programme of players stooping to conquer by unfair methods, of players being maimed and lames, of others being ordered off, and a long list of penalty-kicks as the sequel of misdirected energy. It would not have surprised had the St. Mirren – Celtic match possessed a monopoly of regrettable incidents, for here one of the contestants had a previous defeat to avenge, a goal reverse, and a championship in sight, and the other side had as one incentive towards a second triumph a record gathering of supporters. Yet nothing worse than vigorous methods was brought into play; the referee had no occasion to grant a penalty-kick or dismiss a player.