Lisbon Lion and Celtic Ambassador Jim Craig provides The Celtic Star readers with a 365 day diary of all things Celtic, providing a remarkable and unique insight into our club from one of the players who won us The Celtic Star in Lisbon on 25 May 1967.
The Victory Cup was put up for competition to celebrate the end of World War 2 after the surrender of Japan and was played over a…
Having drawn the first leg of a European Cup semi-final tie 0-0 in the San Siro against Internazionale of Milan, we were quietly confident of beating…
Thanks to Celtic winning the all-British tournament – the Empire Exhibition Trophy – in 1938, supporters tend to over-glamorise the successes of the club in the…
By this time of year in season 1947-48, Celtic had just gone out of the Scottish Cup in the quarter-finals to Morton – 0-1 at Ibrox…
After a fairly successful decade of the 1890s, the years from 1900 to 1903 proved disappointing for Celtic, with only a Charity Cup win in 1903…
Celtic 2 Leeds United 1 This semi-final of the European Cup, played on this day in 1970, lived up to expectations for several reasons. Firstly, it…
If you go on to the internet and look up ‘World Football Derbies’, you will find that a Celtic v Rangers clash is right up there…
The last season of the decade of the 1890s – 1899/1900 – was a mixture of the disappointing and the successful. The league campaign had gone…
After relatively straightforward victories over Zurich and Nantes in the first two rounds, we found Vojvodina of Novisad in the then Yugoslovia (now Serbia) a much…
ON this day in 1925 Celtic defeated Dundee 2-1 in the Scottish Cup Final and Patsy Gallacher scored perhaps the greatest goal of them all… After…
With eight consecutive league titles already wrapped up, Celtic were in very good position for a ninth at the beginning of April in 1974. The club’s…
On this day in 1988, Celtic beat Hearts 2-1 in a semi-final of the Scottish Cup at Hampden in front of a crowd of 65,886. For…
Celtic were far from inspiring on Wednesday night against Dundee but, to be fair to the players, it can be difficult to get very worked up…
Donald MacLeod joined Celtic on 10 May 1902 and made his first –team debut against Third Lanark at Cathkin in a league match on 30 August…
In the Scottish Cup run of 1911-12, Celtic, by their usual standard, did not score many goals. A 1-0 over Dunfermline Athletic in round one was…
On this day in 1969, Celtic beat Hibs 6-2 in the League Cup final and I am delighted to say – “I was there” and on…
I suppose the draw between Dundee and Hearts at Dens Park last Sunday was a better result for the Edinburgh side. The one point gained kept…
ON this day in 1909, Celtic travelled down to Love Street in Paisley on league business and came away with a single goal victory. On the…
The Scottish First Division campaign of 1891-92, the second year of its existence, comprised twelve teams – Hearts, Rangers, Clyde, Renton, Abercorn, Dumbarton, St Mirren, Vale…
On this day in 1970, a Celtic eleven ran out at Elland Road to face Leeds United in the first leg of a semi-final tie in…
There are a number of sayings about the value of statistics, not always in favour of the science. There are though, times, when stats are crying…
On this day in 1905, Celtic beat Queen’s Park 2-1 at Celtic Park in an Inter-City league match. The Glasgow Inter-City league had been proposed as…
ON this day in 1963, there occurred one of the most memorable matches in the history of Celtic Football Club. Unfortunately, it was for all the…
On the Scottish Cup run of 1927, Celtic took two attempts to get past Queen of the South, in round one, a 0-0 draw at Palmerston…
LISBON LION Jim Craig writes his diary every day on The Celtic Star, a new website for Celtic supporters that has made quite an impact in…
On this day in 1964, Celtic played Clyde in the final of the Glasgow Cup. The whole club was in a state of excitement on that…
After the league matches on the second last week-end of March 1971, Celtic, whose fans were expecting to win a 6th consecutive League Championship, were not…
On this day in 1938, Bertie Auld was born in Maryhill, Glasgow. Just prior to the first round European Cup tie against Honved on 6 October 1988,…
On this day in 1958, a Celtic eleven ran down the tunnel at Celtic Park to face Airdrie in a league match. 15,000 fans were there…
CELTIC NEWS ROUND-UP 1. SCOTLAND CALL: Stevie Woods, the Celtic goalkeeping coach who is now part of the Scotland set-up, on Jack Hendry’s Scotland call up…
