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Trivia
- Jock Stein took over as manager from Jimmy McGrory on Monday 8th March. This was his first game as manager. Jimmy McGrory moved sideways to become Press Relations Officer.A photograph from the time shows Stein with the first team regulars at Barrowfield. The only regular first team absentee was Jim Brogan who was still a part-timer and an apprentice chartered accountant.
- Celtic were drawn against Motherwell in the semi final to be played at Hampden. The other semi was between Stein's two previous clubs as manager, Hibernian and Dunfermiline, to be played at Tynecastle.
- Bertie Auld’s five goals must have pleased Jock. He had tempted him back from Birmingham a few weeks earlier, in anticipation of becoming Celtic manager.
- Stein’s first game in charge seemed like a sudden impact, but in league terms this was not the case. Celtic had gone into this game in sixth place, seven points behind joint leaders Dunfermline and Hearts. Final league position that season was eighth, 13 points behind eventual winners Kilmarnock.
- Seven of this team were to compete against Inter in Lisbon two years later. The missing names of course being Simpson, Johnstone, Craig (all already at the club) and Wallace, later bought from Hearts.
- This was Celtic’s seventh win in a row and the seventh with an unchanged team, during which 28 goals were scored and only three conceded. The run began with Yogi’s famous five goals scored in an 8-0 victory over Aberdeen, when he wore plimsolls. Sadly, it ended in the next game against St Johnstone, who won 1-0.
- Even then there was talk of league reform. The Scottish League had submitted plans to change the structure from two divisions of 18 and 19 to three of 14, 12 and 12. It took a further ten years for changes to take place.
Review
Big Jock’s first game in charge with Sean Fallon, Neilly Mochan and Bob Rooney beside him on the bench.
Airdrie's right back Jonquin was injured in a collision with John Hughes shortly before half time and only managed two minutes of the second half before having to retire. By then Celtic were 3-0 up and going to 10 men hardly helped Airdrie's cause. The two penalties were given both for fouls on Bobby Lennox.
Teams
Airdrie:
Samson; Jonquin, Caldwell; Rowan, Hannah, Reid; Ferguson, McMillan, Moonie, Murray, Newlands.
Scorers:
Celtic:
Fallon; Young, Gemmell; Clark, McNeill, Brogan; Chalmers, Murdoch, Hughes, Lennox, Auld.
Referee: N Watson (Glenrothes)
Attendance:n/a
Articles
- Match Report (see below)
Pictures
Articles
WATCH THE CELTS AND SEE CLASS!
Peter Hendry, Evening Times, 11 March, 1965.
Now new Celtic manager Jock Stein knows all the good reports about Bertie Auld’s form since his return from England are perfectly true. With Jock on the trainer’s bench watching his first game as manager of Celtic, Bertie turned in a five-star, five-goal display in the 6-0 rout of Airdrie in the postponed game at Bloomfield last night.
To Airdrie’s credit it must be said they played 44 minutes of the second half with only 10 men after right back Paul Jonquin, injured in the first half, retired with damaged knee ligaments.
No-punch Airdrie
When Jonquin left the field Celtic were leading 2-0, Hughes and Auld having scored in the first half.
After the restart Auld really went to town – scoring four goals, two of them from the penalty spot.
The smiles on the faces of Bertie Auld and manager Stein as they entered the dressing-room after the game were as wide as the difference between the teams in finishing power.
Airdrie, even with their ranks depleted, played neat football. But it was football without punch.
An Auld head in the Airdrie team might have paid off. Certainly the hard-shooting Bertie is Celtic’s trump card these days.
Now Jock has watched his team win their first game since the new management sign went up and there are many more victories to come for this crest-of-the-wave outfit.
FIVE AULD GOALS FOR CELTIC
Glasgow Herald, 11 March 1965.
One of the biggest crowds at Broomfield this season saw Celtic run Airdrieonians into the ground, Auld scoring five of their goals.
Jonquin, injured in collision with Hughes just before half time, resumed on the left wing but was forced to retire after only two minutes of the second half, which increased Airdrie’s troubles.
Once or twice in the first half Ferguson looked dangerous on Airdrie’s right wing. One of his passes led to a near miss by McMillan.
Not until 25 minutes had elapsed did Hughes open Celtic’s account. Earlier, Samson had smothered an Auld header on the goal line, but he had no chance with a 25-yarder from Auld after 41 minutes. Before half time Auld headed home Celtic’s third and lennox had the ball in the net but was ruled offside.
Auld’s third goal came after 62 minutes, and he added two more from penalties after 82 and 86 minutes. Lennox was the player brought down on both occasions.