Putting Them Out of the Scottish Cup… Scottish Cup semi-final, 21 March 1925 Celtic: Shaw, W McStay and Hilley; Wilson, J McStay and McFarlane; Connolly, Thomson,…
Author David Potter
There was little doubt that the early success of the Celtic Football Club in three and a half years had been little short of phenomenal… In…
This astonishing game at Celtic Park is remembered for the four players sent off, but it is a shame that this is how it is recalled,…
For the purpose of this discussion, let us talk about Rangers 1873 and theRangers 2012 combined to look at Celtic’s record against the club that have…
Well, it was good to get this one out of the way, and I am the first to admit that I was angry, frustrated and extremely…
“We’ll forgive everything, Cellic everything, if ye’s jist win the day!” – so bawled a leather voiced man with a scar down one side of his…
On this day in 2017 Celtic travelled to Tynecastle with a smaller than usual away support as the home side had restricted us to half a…
We are still no nearer to knowing who the new boss will be. A new one seems to be brought out every day and rejected by…
A few days in the life of Willie Fernie… We all know, I think what Willie Fernie was doing on 19 October 1957 as he orchestrated…
Celtic’s Empire Exhibition Cup Joy and Jimmy Delaney, ‘the best player of pure football that Celtic had ever had’… “In 38 there was a show Glasgow…
Celtic 1937-38 Champions – David Potter on our ‘devastating forward line’ of Jimmy Delaney, MacDonald, Crum, Divers and Murphy… In 1937 Celtic failed to repeat their…
Scotland’s (and Glasgow’s in particular) love of the game of football surprised even its own devotees in spring 1937. A world record crowd was set up…
Jimmy Delaney is one of the many Celtic players of whom one must occasionally ask the question “Could this all possibly be true?” His career needs to…
As we prepare to say goodbye to Scott Brown at the end of the season (it would be nice to say good bye to him with…
So, it is Falkirk at Celtic Park sometime on the weekend of 3/4 April. From what the commentator said on the radio, Falkirk were a little…
A disappointment in a way, but enough to give us a little hope for the Scottish Cup. We fell down in the predictable ways of not…
The arrival of a TV in people’s houses in the late 1950s and early 1960s opened new horizons. Football was very rarely allowed on TV, but…
We have read on The Celtic Star how Celtic won the Scottish League at Motherwell in 1966. They did the same 50 years earlier at the…
Twenty Things You May Know Or May Not Know About Willie Maley by Celtic Historian David Potter… 1. He was born in Newry, Ireland, on this…
Jock Stein’s transfer market dealings examined by Celtic historian David Potter… ON THIS DAY in 1965 Jock Stein was appointed as Celtic manager. Tonight Celtic Historian David…
This is a dark, dark day in our history. And there can be little doubt that we brought it all on ourselves. Indeed, there was something…
Jimmy McMenemy: The Napoleon who never met his Waterloo. On World Book Day, an Extract from David Potter’s Early Stars section in our best-seller Walfrid &…
Celtic for the Scottish Cup! And so, in a classic case of common sense, the SFA (bless them!) have decided there will be a Scottish Cup…
We just about threw this one away! But it was a win, and we would have settled for this after the traumatic events of this week.…
Much has been the discussion of late of who the next Manager will be. The choice, one assumes, has already been made by those who make…
The news that Neil Lennon has now resigned is no great shock. It has been expected for months, and it was probably the League Cup exit…
And this was awful! Just what on earth was all this about, Celtic? No-one can possibly defend that performance, and it seems now that these five…
It was just by chance the other day that I discovered that Eddie Connachan had died in South Africa at the end of January. He was…
Another win for Celtic. Somewhat uninspired and a little pedestrian, but a win is still a win, and there were some quite outstanding individual performances -…
Early on in his Celtic managerial career, Jock Stein realised that he would have to win the propaganda battle over Rangers, and anything that he could…