Scottish Cup Saturday January 25th 2003

Celtic 3

St. Mirren 0

1:0 Larsson (48); 2:0 Larsson (56); 3:0 Sylla (70)

Att: 29,276

MIB: Charlie Richmond

Celtic: Hedman; Valgaeren (Crainey 70), Balde, Mjallby; Sylla, McNamara, Healy, Thompson, Smith; Larsson, Sutton (Fernandez 27)

About as standard a third round tie as you will ever see. Plucky first half from the team out of the lower division. Their keeper has a bit of birthday, but the quality of the higher division team shows itself in the end. A decent indicator of how this one grabbed the fans was the attendance.

Larsson pulled us through, although we were hamstrung by the early departure of Sutton. Hopefully he won't be out long. Henke's first, right at the start of the second half, came from our first decent move. The second was a left foot swing from just outside the box. Sylla bundled one in right at the end. Onward to the quadruple!