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Month 2, Day 18 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key Celtic-related events relevant to each day, today covering 18 September…

SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1897

Alec King scored for Celtic

The infant Celtic club (still not ten years old) cannot afford another awful season like last season, and seem this year to be making a good start. Today Johnny Campbell and Alec King score the two goals at Parkhead which are enough to beat Clyde 2-1 and to put Celtic into the next round of the Glasgow Cup. A good crowd of 10,000 enjoy this Glasgow derby.

MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1922

Without the ageing but still effective Alec McNair, Celtic go down 0-1 to Hibs in the Edinburgh Holiday fixture at Easter Road. Willie Crilly is playing in the centre forward position, but does not impress. He had been brilliant for Alloa last year helping them to win the Second Division, but seems incapable of making the step up to the First Division.

SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1965

A disappointing day at Ibrox for Jock Stein’s Celtic as they go down 1-2 in a narrow defeat. Billy McNeill was injured and that seemed to have a major effect on Celtic for substitutes were still not allowed. John Hughes with a penalty scored Celtic’s solitary counter. 76,000 attended and the Celtic end in particular was dangerously over-crowded with many supporters climbing over the wall to get in. Big changes come after this. John Fallon loses his place in favour of Ronnie Simpson, and John Divers never plays again.

SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1982

Celtic turn on a really scintillating performance today at Fir Park, Motherwell with a 7-0 defeat of the home side, graphically described in the Press as a “massacre” and “carnage”. The hero of it all is Charlie Nicholas who scores a hat-trick while Roy Aitken scores two and Frank McGarvey and Murdo MacLeod one each. Motherwell’s manager is no less a man than Jock Wallace one time manager of Rangers. Celtic fans sing the praises of another Motherwell manager, Wallace’s predecessor, Davie Hay.

Roy Aitken scored twice

TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2007

Shakhtar Donetsk’s Olexandr Kucher closes down Shunsuke Nakamura

In another example of Celtic’s inability to play away from home in Europe, the team goes down 0-2 to Shakhtar Donetsk in the first game of the sectional stage of the European Champions League. They lose two early goals and never really look like getting back into the game. It makes for dismal television viewing and for the very few fans who have actually gone to the Ukraine. Manager Gordon Strachan expresses his disappointment.

David Potter

David Potter’s new book, Willie Fernie – Putting on the Style is featured in the new edition of the Celtic View which is out now and available from the Celtic Stores. You can also pick up the Willie Fernie book there too or order direct from Celtic Star Books, link below…

Willie Fernie - Putting on the Style

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About Author

David was a distinguished Celtic author and historian and writer for The Celtic Star. He lived in Kirkcaldy and followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. He was a retired teacher and his other interests were cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns. David Potter passed away on 29 July 2023 after a short illness. He was posthumously awarded a Special Recognition award by Celtic FC at the club's Player of the Year awards in May 2024. David's widow Rosemary accepted the award to huge applause from the Celtic Supporters in the Hydro.

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