After a few years in charge of the reserve team at Celtic Park, Jock Stein moved across the country to become manager of Dunfermline, where he…
For many years, Celtic had been the only team in Britain whose players were not numbered to make identification easier for the spectators. The idea had…
On this day in 1982, Celtic beat Rangers 2-1 in the final of the Glasgow Cup at Ibrox. It was an evening match and the Celtic…
In the first match of the 1971 Scottish Cup final between the old Glasgow rivals, held the previous Saturday, a crowd of 120,092 had turned up…
On this day in 1953, the first evening of the Coronation Cup tournament, Celtic met Arsenal at Hampden. Their performance that night was a very rare…
The Date …9 May 1998. The Occasion…….Celtic’s final league match of the 1997/98 season and a chance to win the title. The Opponents….St Johnstone. The Venue…Celtic…
After a career embracing Dunipace Juniors, Morton and Middlesbrough, Neilly Mochan joined Celtic on this day in 1953. 24 hours later, Neilly was in the team…
On this day in 1970, Ronnie Simpson finally retired as a player at the age of 39 years and 7 months after an astonishing career –…
Just over 12 hours late with Jim Craig’s diary this morning – it’s been one of those days but at least we made it back from…
In the early rounds of the Scottish Cup in season 1974-75, Celtic had beaten Hibs 2-0 at Easter Road in Round One, Clydebank 4-1 at home…
On this day in 1891, in the first season of the Scottish League, Celtic travelled to Ibrox to face Rangers in the second clash of the…
On this day in 1957, nineteen-year-old Bertie Auld ran out at Ibrox for his first team debut. It was a tie against Rangers in the Glasgow…
On the same afternoon, Rangers had lost 2-3 to Aberdeen in their final league match of the season. That put Celtic and its fans in a…
On this day at Hampden Park back in 1967, we ran out to face Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final. By that time, the League Cup…
This match from the past we are covering today was a defeat for Celtic but the heaviness of the thrashing and the circumstances surrounding the dates…
On this day in 2008, there was a crowd of 56,662 at Celtic Park for this league meeting of Glasgow’s Big Two. The teams were –…
On this day in 1969, a crowd of 132,870 was at Hampden Park for a Celtic v Rangers clash in the Scottish Cup Final. The teams…
On this day in 1868, Willie Maley was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, the son of a sergeant in the British Army. His family eventually…
Three years after winning Celtic’s first Scottish Cup since 1937, the team reached the final again, after beating Falkirk ( A; 2-1; 20,000); Stirling Albion (…
Alec Thomson was born in 1901. As a young man, he rose up the football ranks, eventually signing for Wellesley Juniors in Fife – the same…
A crowd of 59,298 was present at Celtic Park on this day in 2001 to see the team presented with the League Championship trophy after the…
In season 1950-51, Celtic attracted some good crowds as they progressed through the earlier rounds of the Scottish Cup – 27/01/51 East Fife (A) 2-2 attendance…
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…
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…