Celtic v Dunfermline: Scottish Cup final – live | Scottish Cup

82 min: In scenes that no Scotland fan wants to see this close to the World Cup, Tierney receives treatment and then limps to the touchline. He returns to action but is about to be replaced. I’m not sure what’s wrong with him.

Dunfermline pull a goal back. Seconds after coming on as a substitute for Andrew Tod, Josh Cooper sweeps home from close range after a shot was blocked his way off … I think, Kieran Tierney. I think that was his first touch!

76 min: Celtic double-substitutions: Sebastien Tounekti and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replace Nygren and Yang.

Celtic extend their lead! Following a shout for handball in the Dunfermline box, Iheanacho does a soft-shoe shuffle that sends Pars skipper Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen into the Hampden car-park. Showing remarkabnle close control, Iheanacho then jinks past Robbie Fraser, takes the ball around goalkeeperAston Oxborough and prods into the empty net. That is a superb goal.

72 min: AListair Johnson pulls a ball back into the Dunfermline penalty area from the byline but it’s cannons off a defender and out of danger.

70 min: There’s a short break in play so Dunfermline striker Chris Kane can receive treatment on a bloodied nose.

69 min: Having weathered the Dunfermline storm for 15 minutes of this second hgalf, Celtic are reasserting themselves. They’ve had a habit of letting games drift away from them for long periods throughout this season but they seem to have got away without being punished on this occasion.

66 min: Kelechi Iheanacho taps home a squared ball from Yang to put the game beyond Dunfermline but the flag goes up. Was Yang offside? Was Iheanacho? I think it was Yang and the VAR officials agree.

64 min: “Dunfermline goalkeeper Aston Oxborough must feel like Iain Pearson’s da on his worst night of wooing long ago,” writes Justin Kavanagh. “Caught out of position for the first and just hopelessly out of step with the play for the second.”

62 min: Amade controls a pass just outside the Celtic penalty and sends a dipping shot bouncing just wide of the upright. Sinisalo had it covered but it’s another shot across the Celtic bows.

61 min: Andy Tod tries to stand the ball up at the Celtic far post, forcing VIljami sinisalo to slap it away. Dunfermline are unrecognisable from the side that played the first half.

59 min: Dunfermline substitution: Alfons Amade on for Abdulai in midfield. Celtic substitution: Kelechi Iheanacho on for James Forrest. One presumes he’ll play as a striker, with Maeda moving out wide.

57 min: Both Dunfermline substitute strikers are bald and both are playing like men possessed. With Liam Scales dawdling on the ball surveying his options Chris Kane clatters into him.

55 min: Martin O’Neill is looking pensive on the touchline, with Dunfermline giving the Celtic manager plenty to think about. They’ve set up in a 4-3-3 in this ghalf, having played with five across the back in the first.

53 min: Auston Trusty gets booked for dragging Kane to the ground as the two players tussled while chasing a long ball down the left wing. There was six of one and half-a-dozen of the other in that challenge and the Celtic defender was probably unlucky to get a yellow card.

51 min: Dunfermline are doing an excellent job of keeping Celtic penned back in their own half. If they could score av goal, this final would become a lot more interesting.

49 min: Neil Lennon has replaced both his strikers and brought on a right wing-back in Shea Kearney. On the BBC coverage, Scott Brown describes the changes as “brave”. It’s working so far, as Dunfermline have posed more threat in the opening four minutes of this half than they did in the entire first.

47 min: It’s a positive start to the second half for Dunfermline, who win their first corner of the match. Nothing comes of it.

46 min: Play resumes and Dunferlmline make three changes. Shea Kearney, Zak Rudden and Chris Kane are on for John Tod, Morrison and Oakley-Booth.

An email: “So after all that, Celtic are going to win the double, Askou’s away to Toulouse and St Mirren are probably going to hoof their way past Thistle tomorrow and continue stinking up the Premiership,” writes James Humphries. “Reminds me of the punchline to that old joke about the guy’s first day in hell: ‘Right lads, teabreak’s over – back on your heads’.”

An email: “Are we allowed to call this the Jock Stein Derby?” asks Iain Pearson. “The great man cut his managerial teeth at Dunfermline including some great European nights. My mum was a regular at East End Park and it took her decades to forgive my dad for missing one of the great nights: Fairs Cup 1961-62. They were dating.

“Dunfermline had beaten Everton in the first round, then lost by four goals to Valencia in Spain. It was a dreich night and my mum was about to marry up … which meant my dad was a rugby man. He convinced her to go to the movies at The Palace, instead of a wet and ‘pointless’ football match. The manager at The Palace, projected the scores as the goals came in. By the time The Pars had scored their fourth, my dad was no longer getting his goodnight cuddle. Jock Stein, doing an early massive European night out.”

And they say romance is dead. A story fit to grace any Scottish Cup final minute-by-minute report.

The sides troop off with Celtic enjoying a commanding lead courtesay of an extremely dominant performance. They had to survive an early scare following a mix-up between Alistair Johnson and VIljami Sinisalo before going ahead courtesy of fine strikes from Daizen Maeda and Arne Engels.

45+1 min: Yang curls a very inviting low cross through the Dunfermline penalty area but James Forrest is unable to get on the end of it. It’s half-time.

45 min: Half-time approaches as the chances of a major upset disappear over the horizon. Celtic are two goals up and in toital charge of this game. Neil Lennon has a big job on his hands to try to rally his players during the break. If they can score the next goal, they’ll have a chance.

42 min: Dunfermline’s Charlie Gilmour has been booked for some indiscretion or other, apologies – I didn’t see what. He was also at fault for the Engels goal, making little or no effort to close down the Belgian as he shaped to shoot. Watching it again, it’s obvious that Oxborough the Dunfermline goalkeeper was also caught completely flat-footed.

40 min: It was an excellent strike from Engels, who ran on to a short pass from Callum McGregor to send his long-range dipper past Oxborough, whose view was impaired by some of his own teammates. Celtic had acres of space to operate in outside the Dunfermline penalty area.

Celtic double their lead! Arne Engels beats Oxborough with a dipping shot from about 30 yards out. The goalkeeper saw it late but possibly should have done better.

35 min: Maeda runs on to a quickly-taken free-kick and pokes it goalwards before Oxborough can clear his lines. His effort is too gentle and Ngwenya is able to clear.

33 min: Another ball in behind from Celtic, which forces Aston Oxborough to the very edge of his penalty area to head clear under pressure from Maeda and Yang. The Dunfermline goalkeeper wasn’t taking any chances.

32 min: Yang and Engels combine down the left wing only for the Belgian to run into a stout wall of red resistance in the form of Pars skipper Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen. Good defending.