SCOTTISH CUP 3rd ROUND
Venue: CELTIC PARK
CELTIC 2 - 0 ROSS COUNTY
Scorers: Hartson, Lambert
Att: 30,565
Took the whole family to this one in what was the first ever meeting between the sides in a competitive match. My youngest son, Paul who was 3 fell asleep during a pretty uneventful Scottish Cup tie. Despite fielding a strong starting XI Celtic struggled to make the breakthrough. John Hartson eventually woke the crowd late on when he used his strength and a little nudge to engineer the vital opening goal.
CELTIC team:
Rab Douglas, Bobo Balde, Jackie McNamara, Ross Wallace (Beattie 80), Paul Lambert, Neil Lennon, Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, Didier Agathe (Pearson 80), Shaun Maloney (Petrov 66), John Hartson
ROSS COUNTY team:
Graeme Smith, John Rankin, Jim Lauchlan, Hugh Robertson, Jamie McCunnie, Sean Webb, David Winters (Gethins 76), Stephen O'Donnell (Higgins 82), David Hannah, Mark McCulloch , Graham Bayne (Cowie 81)