1938-01-03: Queen’s Park 0-3 Celtic, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Frank Murphy scores direct from a corner-kick, but Mustafa Mansour, Queen's Egyptian goalkeeper is given glowing praise for his performance in poor visibility.
  • Queen's had to play this match without two of their regular players (Gordon and Christie) who missed their train from Edinburgh.
  • Many of the 20,000 spectators also missed the match as dense fog shrouded the pitch for all of the first half of this, and other games in Glasgow in particular but also other areas of Scotland.
  • Three Fife clubs; Dunfermline, East Fife and Raith Rovers, are fighting it out with St. Bernards at the top of the Second Division.
  • Glasgow cinemas are showing Jack Buchanan starring in a British film, "The Sky's the Limit".

Review

Teams

QUEEN’S PARK:
Mansour, Campbell, Dickson, Buchanan, Cross, Rae, Hunter, Kyle, Martin, Brown, Kinghorn.

CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Lynch, Lyon, Geatons, Carruth, MacDonald, Crum, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Murphy, Divers, Crum.

Referee: D. F. Reilly (Port Glasgow).
Attendance: 20,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

Articles

QUEEN'S PARK NO MATCH FOR CELTIC

Only for ten minutes did Queen's Park suggest they could make a fight of it with Celtic at Hampden Park. They started off with a virility and power comparable to the football that enabled them to beat Third Lanark on Saturday. They might have taken the lead in the first minute had Hunter, with the Parkhead defenders claiming offside beaten Kennaway from some six yards instead of sending high over. But when Celtic scored two goals in two minutes, Murphy netting direct from a corner-kick in the twelfth minute, and Divers heading home a second immediately afterwards, the Amateurs never regained their poise. In the end, it became too easy for the Cupholders. who secured a grip they at no time appeared likely to release.

The Amateurs sadly missed their two Edinburgh colleagues. Gordon and Christie. Kerr Campbell , who took Gordon's place at right back, was quite unable to find an antidote for the astuteness and cohesion of Divers and Murphy. It was from this flank that most danger emanated. More than once a gap was exposed in the Hampden defence but it is to the credit of Dickson that so quickly did he recover that he could cover up his colleagues' mistakes. Mansour, too played a vital part. Through the gloom he could be seen saving all manner of shots his agility being equalled only by his daring. The Queen's Park half-backs, never settled, Cross was puzzled by Crum's jugglery, which was not surprising, for the Parkhead leader was in one of his most dynamic moods. He it was who registered the third goal midway through the second half. Murphy eluded Campbell and Buchanan before crossing a knee-high ball, which Crum, ever on the alert, brushed past Mansour. The Amateurs looked like scoring only once. They did get the ball into the net, but as Brown hooked it behind Kennaway the referee signalled offside.

Celtic are well prepared for their important duel with Hearts at Tynecastle on Saturday . They have struck their richest vein of form just when it is most needed. Kennaway . Hogg, and Morrison were not tested to the full, and always hinted at a reserve from it was unnecessary to draw, in the half-back line, Lyon, facing his former clubmates , was a dominating personality, not only shackling Martin, but spreading the play with intelligence. Geatons returned to the intermediate division after being absent for two months. As the game ran, it would be impossible to pass judgment on him. Suffice it to say he had no cause for anxiety. Attendance, 20,000.
Queens Park v Celtic Jan 1938