| Match Pictures | Matches: 1975 – 1976 | 1975-1976 Pictures |
Trivia
- Steve Murray was back in training after a recurrence of the toe injury. Jackie McNamara would be out for a month with an injury.
- On Tuesday 3rd Celtic played a challenge match away to Cowdenbeath. Hunter, Glavin, MacDonald and Hood were in the squad for the game.
- Sean Fallon plays youngsters Andy Ritchie and Jim Casey – Casey's first start of a game after being sub earlier in the season. He also had Latchford back in goal and with McNamara injured and Tommy Callaghan dropped to the Reserves it was a chance for Ronnie Glavin to make a game for himself.
- Highlights shown on Scotsport.
- During the week Jacky Stewart resigned as manager of bottom-of-the-table St Johnstone.
- On the same day Celtic drew 1-1 with Hearts in a Reserve League match at Tynecastle. The Celtic team was Connaghan, Gourlay, Baillie, Hannah, McDonald, Innes, McCluskey, Callaghan, O'Donnell, Burns, Little. Subs McLean and McGrane. The Celtic scorer was Callaghan.
Review
When Dalglish plays to the full then Celtic are on form and he scores two excellent goals to give Celts victory.
In the first half Celtic made chances but Cruickshank was in inspired form and made four tremendous saves.
After the break Celtic brought McCluskey back to sweeper and pushed young Casey into midfield and Celtic had more drive.
Dalglish opened the scoring in 59 minutes with a cute lob after Deans had knocked down a McCluskey free kick. Near the end Dalglish clinched it when he headed in a fine cross from Ritchie. Dalglish now described as 'Captain Marvel.'
Youngsters Ritchie and Casey played well on the day with Ritchie impressing with his powerful shooting.
Teams
| Celtic: Latchford, McGrain, Edvaldsson, Casey, Lynch, Ritchie, P McCluskey, Dalglish, Glavin, Deans, Wilson. Subs: Hood, Aitken |
| Scorers: Dalglish 2 (59, 81) |
| Hearts: Cruikshank, Clunie, Gallacher, Murray, Jeffries, Busby, Brown, Callachan, Aird (Park), Ford, Shaw Sub: Prentice |
Referee: C H Hutton (Dunfermiline)
Attendance: 22,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
