Busby Amateur Football Club

A rare no scoring draw against the top of the league Celtic side played at St Rochs junior ground.A competitive first half saw a Celtic forward sent of for two bookable offences and Celtic create the early half chances with shots that went by without Alex Dempster's having to make a save. After the sending off we put Chris Clark into midfield and had the extra player in there and had the better of the game. We did not create much though in the first half.At half time Robbie Falconer had to come off with a sore back and later by david cairs with a groin strain. We had the bulk of the chances in thesecond half with a Jamie Booth header off the crossbar, a marginal offside goal from Dean McKirdy after cross from Shaun Alexander and a couple of excellent saves from the very good Celtic GK. However near the end Celtic also had a good shout for a penalty which wasn't given.Some excellent perfomances with Kyle Maxwell going back to sweeper, Chris Clark in defence (and later midfield) and David Hayton on the wing being the pick of the bunch. It was also good to have Alistair Gardner back after approx 4 weeks out.
Team- Dempster, Blair, Maxwell, Clark, Moffat, Falconer, Alexander, Hayton,Cairns, Kingwaya, Brown,
Subs - McKirdy, Johnson, Gardner, Booth, Guatella