On this day at Celtic Park in 1936, Celtic beat a strong Motherwell side 5-0 in a league match.
The Celtic team on the day was Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Delaney, Buchan, McGrory, Crum, Murphy.
This was a good victory against a team lying 4th from top in the league table and these words from a daily paper of the time give a precise account of the main man –
‘McGrory was the man mainly responsible for the rout. He scored 3 goals in 3 minutes, all in his best style and this provided a memorable feature of a rather disappointing match.
‘The 3 goals came midway through the second half. For the first, a cross by Delaney was met on the volley by McGrory. And the other two were pretty similar, crosses by Murphy and headers by McGrory’.
The result put Celtic 4 points clear at the top of the league table.
Jim Craig
Introducing The Celtic Star App and our new ad-free Premium Service...
Go ad-free on The Celtic Star, get a FREE trial period to try it out. Also download our new App – available for both Apple and Android – and get the best Celtic content on your phone without fighting through pop-up ads and being forced to watch videos.
Our new PREMIUM service comes with a free seven-day trial so you can look before you book. If you are happy to continue the price will be just 99p per month or £9.99 for the year. For that you get an AD-FREE SITE plus access to our premium content, and you’ll also help us make The Celtic Star even better and less reliant on advertising revenues, allowing us to be more focused on publishing the best Celtic features on the internet.
Click HERE to access your FREE trial. We think you’ll like it! We’re Obsessed with Celtic and we think you are too! Join us hand in hand...
