"Bedraggled" is how former player Ian McCall described Dunfermline Athletic in the first half of this Scottish Cup final. The Championship side were "pulled all over the shop" by a hungry Celtic in the opening 45 minutes and went into the interval two goals down and with their Hampden hopes already all but gone. There was a genuine fear things could get ugly for Neil Lennon and his side but a half-time cajoling - rather than a scolding - and a bold triple substitution paved the route for an unforeseen response and respectable showing.
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