On this day 61 years ago just shy of his 90th birthday, the “Greatest ever Celt” was taken from us. “A man must be a Celt…
RED RUM won the Grand National at Aintree for the third time and Champions-Elect Celtic won 3-0 at Tynecastle to effectively relegate Hearts for the first…
ENGLAND’S finest were drawn against Celtic in the semi-final of the European Cup in 1970 and over 13,000 Hoops supporters travelled to Leeds from all corners…
ON Wednesday 25 March 1970 Celtic were at home to Aberdeen in the league. Jock Stein picked this team to take on the Dons, Williams, Craig,…
CELTIC travelled to Hampden to play in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Clyde on this day in 1956, Clyde were full of confidence having put eight…
TONY MOWBRAY’S short reign as Celtic manager was effectively brought to an end by a comprehensive and humiliating 0-4 defeat at St.Mirren Park, on this day…
ON Sunday 23 March 2008 Celtic beat Gretna 3-0 not at Gretna, nor Motherwell where Gretna played most home games that season but at Almondvale, Livingston.…
Twenty one years ago, in the maternity ward listening to Aberdeen v Celtic on a smuggled in transistor radio… SATURDAY 21 March 1891 was the day…
On Sunday 20 March 1988 league leaders Celtic travelled across the city to play current Champions Rangers in a vital leave match. A win would go…
IT had been a miserable season for Celtic and Rangers arrived at Celtic Park on this day in 1993 on a 44 game run since their…
ODSONNE EDOUARD’S stunning goal at Dens Park on Sunday all but wrapped up the title for Celtic and it bares a remarkable similarity to a goal…
ON 18 March 2001, very impressively, Celtic, wearing their yellow change strip, took their first step to a domestic treble by beating Kilmarnock 3-0 in the Scottish…
ON this day in 1910 Celtic took another step towards their sixth League Championship in a row with a 2-0 win over Third Lanark at Parkhead…
ON this day in 1971, Celtic travelled to Central Park, Cowdenbeath to beat the home side 5-1 with two goals from Harry Hood (one of them…
ON THIS DAY IN 1938 Celtic went to Firhill to beat Partick Thistle 6-1 with goals from Johnny Crum, Johnny Divers, Frank Murphy, Chic Geatons and…
CELTIC beat an in form Barcelona side 1-0 in the UEFA Cup at Celtic Park on this day in 2004. Rather unusually the key moment in…
ALAN McINALLY, affectionately known as Big Rambo, scored the only goal of the game at Firhill in this Glasgow Cup semi-final in front of a crowd…
CELTIC on this day in 2002 had the ball in the net in the early stages but it was ruled out INCORRECTLY for offside by guess…
BIG JOHN HARTSON scored the only goal of the game against Rangers at Celtic Park on this day in 2003 and it seemed to be a…
WHEN you think about the batterings that Celtic took in the Champions League under Brendan Rodgers to Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain – neither of whom…
IT had been 92 years since Rangers had last defeated Celtic in a Scottish Cup tie at Celtic Park and Tommy Burns was determined that record…
CELTIC played a ‘home’ SPL match against Aberdeen on this day in 1995 in front of a crowd of just 20,623. A 2-0 win for the…
“The war is over, the rebels have won” – 4 March, 1994. Fergus McCann paid the banks and took over Celtic, overthrowing a century of the…
CELTIC were beaten 1-0 in the Nou Camp by Barcelona in the knock-out stages of the Champions League on this day in 2008. Afterwards Celtic manager…
HEARTS were the visitors to Celtic Park on this day in 1996. The new stadium was very much a work in progress as Celtic piled on…
RAFAEL SHEIDT made his debut for Celtic on this day in 2000 in a 6-2 win over Dundee at Celtic Park. John Barnes and Kenny Dalglish…
ON THIS DAY in 2009 Celtic thrashed St Mirren in the SPL by seven goals to nil at Celtic Park then managed to go out of…
JOCK STEIN promised to attack Basel in Switzerland in this first leg of the European Cup Quarter Final and selected the following team: Williams, McGrain, Brogan,…
ON THIS DAY in 2004 Czech Republic’s FK Teplice were the visitors to Celtic Park for the UEFA Cup tie, having knocked out Feyenoord and Kaiserslautern…
ON THIS DAY in 2018 Celtic travelled to Pittodrie to face the so-called title challengers Aberdeen. Here are five things that The Celtic Star learned from…
