ON THIS DAY in 2013 two former Celtic captains faced each other in the dug-out at Celtic Park and Neil Lennon emerged as the winner as Celtic hit Dundee Utd for 6 in an 8 gaol thriller.
Jackie McNamara had made a good start as manager of the Tangerines and his side arrived at run-away league leaders Celtic, full of confidence after a decent cup win over the new Rangers in the Scottish Cup.
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Watch out for the scorer of the opening goal in this match – the first but not the last time we’d see that sort of strike and also for the Bobby Madden Honest Mistake in awarding the visitors a penalty after an excellent ball winning challenge from Adam Matthews. Even by Madden’s own standards, it was an incredible decision.
Celtic lost the first and last goal in this game – that one was scored by Johnny Russell who had an eye on a move to Celtic at that time, but luckily enough for us, Neil Lennon’s side was in irresistible form and the goals were flying in.
Lennon had assembled a very good Celtic side that season and had young guys like James Forrest and Tom Rogic coming off the bench.
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The team was Forster, Matthews, Izaguirre, Ambrose (Kayal 71), Wilson, Mulgrew, Commons (Rogic 73), Ledley, Wanyama (Forrest 76) Stokes and Hooper.