E.A.MacBride’s Celtic Diaries [jan-may1959]

CELTIC DO WIN A CUP! JANUARY 1959Ne’erday ; SL18 ; Rangers L 1-2 ; Peacock opens in 15 but Rangers winner is a Caldow penalty in 63 ..85 : penalty Celtic! .Bertie Auld hits bar .played in gale and ankle-deep mud : freezing downpour .Dick Beattie appealed to ref Jack Mowat to abandon 75 as sheeting rain obscured his vision thousands abandoned the terracing .Matt McVittie suffering from exposure.2 ; SL19 ; Motherwell D 3-3 ; Beattie asleep 89 and 90 when Well pulled it back to draw via St John and Quinn...