T Cairns
A Cunningham
Browning
McMenemy
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Easily the best thing about the Glasgow Charity Cup final at Ibrox Park was the sum drawn - £864. There was plenty of excitement, but there was also some indifferent football, and certainly too much bad temper. One player – the wrong one, as often happens – was threatened with marching orders. At the start the referee was no doubt disposed to be lenient because the match was what it was – for charity. But leniency was a mistake. Celtic were lucky to win as that did, though on the run of the game they were the better team. The match was almost over when the winning goal was scored, and it followed hard on the equaliser which Celtic had to make a desperate effort to secure. They looked like a team that was glad the season was over – except for the match they will play on Saturday first at Hampden against the Rest of the League. Rangers played in streaky style. When they were at their best they were quite as good as Celtic at their best, but the Parkhead team lasted better. With the wind Rangers opened well, and it was rather a contradiction of the run of play when Dodds with a splendid long shot scored for Celtic after twelve minutes. When Cairns smashed the ball at the roof of the Celtic net and equalised, things looked sort of fair like, but then Cunningham put Rangers ahead with – while Gallagher was off injured – a shot much after the fashion of the one Dodds had scored with. Celtic deserved to be level at the interval, but were a goal down. They had played the tactical game against the wind – wasting as much time as possible with the by-kicks, etc so when Rangers followed their example in the second half it looked for a long time as if the biter was to be bitten with his own teeth. The second half was well advanced when Rangers secured the first corner. Then Browning scored the equalising goal, which was followed by an equalising corner. Excitement ran high until a free kick to Celtic enabled McMenemy to head the winning goal a couple of minutes from the end. Rangers got another corner, but could do nothing more, and thus they lost a game that seemed for long safe in their keeping. Before the start of the game Major RM Christie, ex-president, SFA made a recruiting speech to the crowd. He is keen on getting some football men into the 13th HLI, stationed at Gosport, and any prepared to enlist should write to Major Christie, Dunblane
