Even closer if we'd been Beech boys

BY RYAN MCDONALD

- KYLE MCAVOY

KYLE MCAVOY is still pinching himself after heroic Auchinleck Talbot ran Celtic close in the Scottish Cup.

But the striker can't help but wonder what might have been had the David-v-Goliath tie been played at their Beechwood ground.

The Juniors were forced to move the biggest game in the club's history away from their home to Rugby Park on police instructions.

And a bumper crowd of over 10,000 packed inside Kilmarnock's stadium as Celts emerged 2-0 winners.

Talbot kept the 42-times Scottish Cup winners at bay until Johnny Kenny broke the deadlock on the 33th minute before Sebastian Tounekti settled nerves in the dying embers.