| Match Pictures | Matches: 1964 – 1965 | 1964-65 Pictures |
Trivia
- The team spent the Thursday after the Wednesday League Cup game against Hearts, relaxing at Seamills knowing that they had qualified from their League Cup section – potentially a very difficult group with second, third, fourth and seventh in the league last season playing against each other.
- Bobby Lennox, having started as a first team pick since the start of the season with John Hughes suspended, picked up an ankle injury against Hearts and was out. This allowed Hughes to stepm back into the team now that he was free of the suspension. Billy McNeill was also carrying a thigh injury picked up against Hearts.
- Frank Haffey was missing from the A Reserves in their Reserve League Cup game with Davey Brown promoted
- Kilmarnock manager, Willie Waddell, was not present for the game. He had flown to Germany to watch Killie's opponents in the Fairs Cup, Eintracht Frankurt.
Review
This was a 'robust' game to say the least. Both Bobby Murdoch and Billy McNeill were stretchered off the park with injuries in the second half and the crowd became decidedly unruly throwing beer cans onto the pitch and track. Both players were put in a car and rushed to hospital. Killie's tactics in the second half were brutal and appeared to involve kicking anything that moved in green and white. With the team down to 9 the Bhoys fought on and were unlucky to lose to a late penalty and a last minute goal.After McNeill was stretchered off both captains (Kennedy standing in for the injured and off McNeill) were called together by the referee in an attempt to ease the situation which threatened to turn into a full blown riot.
Hearts 4-3 Partick Thistle
| Team | P | W | L | D | F | A | Pts |
| Celtic | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 9 |
| Kilmarnock | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| PartickThistle | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 4 |
| Hearts | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 3 |
Teams
Kilmarnock:
Forsyth, King, Watson, O'Connor, McGrory, Beattie, Murray, McInally, Hamilton, Sneddon, McIlroy
Scorers: Hamilton (51 pen), McIlroy (90)
Celtic:
Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Clark, McNeill, Kennedy; Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, Gallacher, Hughes.
Scorers:
Referee: A McKenzie (Coatbridge)
Attendance: 18,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
