11th Nov 1995 Partick Thistle 1 Celtic 2 (SFL Premier Division - game 12)

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Match Information

37y, 1m, 18d			Murdo MacLeod		Tommy Burns
Tommy Turner; Stephen Docherty
Albert Craig; Andy M. Gibson
Stephen Docherty (1-1, 38 mins)					Pierre Van Hooijdonk (0-1, 35 mins); Pierre Van Hooijdonk (1-2, 55 mins)
Derek McWilliams (Harry Curran, 36 mins); Tommy Turner (Andy M. Gibson, 82 mins)
33y, 1m, 13d			Nicky Walker		Gordon Marshall
32y, 5m, 28d			Alan Dinnie		Tom Boyd
28y, 3m, 24d			Stevie Pittman		Tosh McKinlay
22y, 0m, 30d			Tom Smith		Jackie McNamara future Jag
27y, 6m, 23d			Steve Welsh		John Hughes
25y, 1m, 21d			Gregg Watson		Peter Grant
29y, 9m, 26d			Derek McWilliams		Simon Donnelly future Jag
32y, 1m, 0d			Tommy Turner		Paul McStay
32y, 2m, 0d			Wayne Foster		Pierre Van Hooijdonk
29y, 2m, 18d			Ian Cameron [i]		Andreas Thom
19y, 8m, 24d			Stephen Docherty		John Collins
28y, 4m, 2d
			n-a		Stewart Kerr
26y, 9m, 9d			Andy M. Gibson		Andy Walker future Jag
29y, 1m, 2d			Harry Curran		Brian McLaughlin
30y, 2m, 15d			Callum Milne

Match Report

TTA report

A Welsh shot was cleared off the line (1). Thistle (the small squad stretched to the limit) took the game to Celtic and competed well for long spells but Celtic scored twice (35 and 55). In between, a mix-up let in Docherty for an equaliser from 15 yards (38). Some fans staged a sit-in demanding the board be sacked.

Media report

Graham Spiers, 12-Nov-1995, Scotland on Sunday

BENEATH a fantastic purple sky that glared down over Maryhill and through the beaming floodlights, Celtic finally emerged from this madhouse with three more cherished points. It was a frantic match, full of mud and rain and bookings, and not made more peaceable by the discontent around Firhill.

Thistle’s followers, their moral fibre shorn away by years of penury and scrapping for survival, put up a shout of resistance with a sit-in at the end. To this observer, it didn’t look much more than a healthy smattering yelling their slogans, but it will be enough to cause Jim Oliver, the Thistle chairman, some further groaning. They weren’t being at all complimentary about this man. For one who's put in his own money, not to say years of harassed stewardship, such loud, communal swearing, with an accompanying melody, seemed tough.

Celtic, not immune themselves to uprisings among the people, had the mind and heart for the job at hand. They produced some sweet passing movements, surges of passion when needed, and two goals from Pierre van Hooijdonk will have replenished the confidence of the Dutchman following some indifferent form.

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Scotland on Sunday, 12th November, 1995

News of the World, 12th November, 1995

Glasgow Herald, 13th November, 1995

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