There was a scare for Celtic when 'keeper Rab Douglas dropped a corner kick but Stanislav Varga was on hand to hook the ball to safety.
Halliday's opener came in the 44th minute when the Glens man contorting himself superbly to hook the ball home after a frantic scramble in the Linfield six-yard box involving Willo McDonagh and Darren Lockhart.
Right from the start, Chelsea looked off key and when skipper John Terry failed to head away Paul Konchesky's cross, Gera was on hand to hook the ball in after Bobby Zamora had nodded it his way.
The new centre pairing combined delightfully off good line-out ball, Hook feinting passes to an array of dummy runners before popping the ball to fellow-Lion Bowe.
Katich reached his half century off 86 balls but the partnership came to an end when Symonds, on 20, tried to hook a short ball from Martin and edged to McCullum.
His superb whipped cross was inches away from Young's forehead at the near post, but Downing sprinted to the back post to hook in the ball in with the studs on his trusted left boot from a tight angle.
It was top scorer Patterson who put Coleraine into the lead when he latched on to Tommy McCallion's long ball to hook a great finish past the stranded Miskelly.
The goal left Cambridge stunned and Torquay almost had a second moments later, Dan Gleeson doing brilliantly to block Benyon's inviting ball and hook it out - with Danny Stevens lurking with intent.
Fly-half Biggar then chipped over the top of the visitors' defence, Hook gathering and seeing the ball quickly recycled.
They almost got it at the start of the second half when Hook broke and kicked the ball forward, only for Shane Horgan to get his hand to it first.
Lee Byrne was halted just short of the line after a fine run and the ball eventually came to Hook, who succeeded with his second attempt at a drop-goal.
But that didn't stop him hitting a hook shot 40 yards right, the ball rising 15 feet above the ground to sail through a small opening in the trees.
My father, bent over at the waist the way he was, looked like a crane there to either lift me up with its hook or wreck me with its heavy ball.
But having been rarely tempted to hook, he had a go at the 282nd ball he faced and was well caught by Oliver Newby running in at long-leg off Chapple.
If you are trying to hit the ball straight down the middle of the fairway and you hook it into the rough, you know that you did not execute successfully.
If using a stand mixer, attach the dough hook and beat on high speed just until the dough gathers into a ball, about 1 minute.
Moments later, the Squirrels were left off the hook after the goalkeeper clashed with his centre-back Adenon leaving the ball to sprawl but Yakubu failed to take advantage.
Henson sent a wide ball to Andrew Bishop, who offloaded to Walker to go over in the corner with Hook converting.
The one ploy remaining was the short ball, and Stuart Broad was entrusted with that, but the soft ball, slow pitch and dominance of the batsmen soon put an end to that, hook shots played down with rolled wrists and great control.
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