Cup win was for Jimmy, says delighted Strachan

Celtic 3 Dunfermline 0
Cup win was for Jimmy, says delighted Strachan

The former Hoops winger died last Monday, aged 61, after a long battle with motor neurone disease. Johnstone’s death made a Celtic win at Hampden Park imperative to the thousands of fans who voted him the Parkhead club’s greatest ever player.

Celtic had to wait until just before the break for Maciej Zurawski to open the scoring against the Pars side before securing a comfortable 3-0 victory with late goals from Shaun Maloney and Dion Dublin.

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