Scottish Cup Tuesday January 8th

Alloa 0

Celtic 5

0:1 Balde (19); 0:2 Wieghorst (27); 0:3 Maloney (56); 0:4 Petta (75); 0:5 Sylla (83)

Att: 5,498

MIB: Mike McCurry

Celtic: Gould; Boyd, Balde (Healey 61), Tebily; Guppy, McNamara, Wieghorst, Petrov (Smith 45), Petta; Maloney, Sylla

The trip to Brockville was a trip back to the land that time forgot for the biggest mismatch since King Kong introduced himself to Fay Wray.

An entire lost tribe of Celtic players, whose names only reside in the recesses of Bob Crampsey's cranium, graced the field, against a team from the uncharted reaches of the Central Belt. Still sporting his trademark Duffel coat, Terry Christie was threatening his players with detention after school if they didn't behave and play well.

Memories flooded back while wading through Brockville's foul latrine, smelling somewhat akin to Ibrox on a good day, and actually getting to stand on a terrace again. The advantages of having terracing right beside the pitch, soon came to the fore as regular cries of "Guppy you're shite!" greeted the ears of our Hooped hero from all of two paces away every time he got the ball.

This was a bit of a turkey shoot, and was five nil going on fifteen nil. Highlights of the night were a goal from Morten Weighorst, who was given a sympathetic "Man of the Match" award and an excellent solo effort from Petta. A trundler from Balde to open the account and goals from Maloney and Sylla rounded up the tally to five.

In fact Alloa were hyped up for this game and clogged their way through it until they ran across the brick wall that is Balde .

So no cup slip-ups this time (take note Messrs. Barnes and Dalglish) as Alloa retired to write out a hundred lines of "we must play better" for Terry Christie.