Cringan 47
Muirhead 51
Match Information
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Willie Bell (Hamilton)
Matchday: Thursday
Match Trivia
Everything considered, the latest drawn Celtic-Rangers New Yearss Day battle must be written down as having compared favourable with most of its predecessors. It was a hard almost as the ground was flinty and that is saying something! We were regaled with thrills on occasion. The latter were most plentiful in the first fifteen minutes of the second half, during which both goals were scored. For the time being, the players forgot all about the adamantine crimpy surface, and they let themselves go. So too did a section of the spectators just to the right of the pavilion enclosure. At any rate, the partition was stove in from the outside, just as Muirhead at the second attempt picked up the equaliser for the Rangers. Time sixteen minutes after the interval. This followed just after, the Celts had missed their best chance of the afternoon, and Archibald had thrown away a golden opportunity. Had that bad miss of Locks been improved upon as it should, I might not have had to chronicle the rangers success just referred to. My reason for saying so the Celts would have been two up. And you know what a two goals lead generally means to those enjoying it and to those fighting against it. Cringans shot which sent McAtees corner spinning past Lock was a first-class effort, but I have not the least shadow of doubt that the corner should never have been given. Either that Rangers should have been penalised by a free kick against them when McInally was sandwiched between Gordon and Dixon, or the ball should have been kicked from Locks goal. It was put behind by a Ranger. When all is said and done though, a draw is a really good result, although, mind you, the Parkhead division came closer to scoring. Locks goal had the greater number of narrow escapes, and more so in the first half, when twice Gordon chipped in at the psychological moment to clear the ball away from under the bar. I would say also that the Celts came better out of the encounter, because they were the less fancied team. The players seemed to feel that it was up to them to so something to stop the Ibrox crowd, and accordingly every man jack took greater risks than the other fellows. Another thing they seemed better shod for the difficult footing than the Light Blues the Celts kept their feet better than their Ibrox opponents. What time Archibald slipped and floundered, McAtee sped along the line and centred in quite good fashion. It was one of Andys best days, just as it was one of Archies worst. Nor was Paterson quite happy. The Doctor got across several beauties, which McStay cleared, but often he came a cropper on none too kindly mother earth, Adam McLean did fairly well. I liked the Rangers inside men, and more particularly in the first half. Muirhead, who improves every time out, vied with Cairns as a worker, and Cunningham, besides forging ahead on his own, put out a lot of nice balls to either wing. Although he tapered off a bit latterly, McMenemy shared with McAtee the honours of the Parkhead attack. All Jamies old wiles were
