VIOLENT MATCH

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 20

VIOLENT MATCH

5 Play ers Sent Off (A .Z P A.-Reuter—Copyright) MONTEVIDEO Racing Club of Argentina beat Glasgow Celtic, 1-0, to win the world club's soccer championship on Saturday, after five players had been sent off and troops called in to break up a' near riot on the pitch. Basile (Racing) and Lennox (Celtic) were sent off in the thirty-seventh minute. .Johnstone (Celtic) followed them in the forty-seven minute, Hughes (Celtic) went off in the seventh fifth minute, and finally Ruilli (Racing) was sent off in the eighty-sixth minute. Johnstone is already under a 21-day suspension from the Scottish Football Association, which lifted the ban tempor arily so that he could play in this series. Cardenas scored the only goal of the match with a fierce shot from 25 yards in the fifty-sixth minute, but by this stage the purpose of the match seemed to have been forgotten. It provided the final brutal climax to the series between the two teams, the champions of South America and Europe After Celtic had won the first leg, 1-0, in Glasgow on October 18, Racing squared the series by winning, 2-1, in Buenos Aires last Wednesday. Before last Wednesday's match, the Celtic goal-keeper. R. Simpson, was struck by a stone thrown from the crowd and took no further part in the competition. The incident al most prompted Celtic to pull out of the match. There were fears that Saturday's decider would degenerate into a brawl—and the 75,000 crowd in the Centenario Stadium watched in amazement as players foresook their soccer skills to square off in private boxing matches. Play was marked by vicious tackles from the first whistle and violence finally erupted in the thirty-seventh minute when steel-helmeted Uruguyan troops raced on to the field to separate fighting players.