On this day in 1997, Celtic opened their pre-season tour of Holland with a game against FC Beatrix and got ‘the keys to the door” in scoring terms hitting the unfortunate Dutch amateurs with a 21 goal-feast. Has Celtic ever scored more in a match?
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Tommy Johnston didn’t get a hat-trick, he got two! Alan Stubbs got a hat-trick that day too, perhaps the only one of his playing career? And you striker John Paul McBride came off the bench to score a hat-trick too. The goals were certainly flying in -even captain Tommy Boyd scored that day!
It was 9-0 at the interval and you’d probably expect Celtic to ease up in the second half but the goals just kept on coming with the final score being 21-0 to Celtic. Poor little FC Beatrix! The Celtic bench didn’t see to enthusiast judging by this photo taken during the game! Two Celtic ships passing in the night there.
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The Celtic side that defeated FC Beatrix was Marshall, Annoni, Boyd, McNamara, McKay, Stubbs, Donnelly, Hannah, Johnson, Thomson and Gray and the final score was 21-0 to Celtic.
The Celtic scorers were David Hannah (2), Tommy Johnson (6), Alan Stubbs (3), Andy Thom, Tommy Boyd, Simon Donnelly (2), Stuart Gray, John Paul McBride (sub; 3), Marc Anthony (sub) and Brian McLaughlin (sub).
After that result Celtic fans could have been forgiven for thinking we were in for a decent season!
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