The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic diary highlights key Celtic-related events relevant to each day, today covering 23 October…
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 1915
A combination of war time problems and injury mean that Celtic have to take the field to-day without Andy McAtee or Jimmy McMenemy and go down to an unlucky defeat at home to St Mirren before 6,000 fans. They lose 0-2 but the second goal was a fluke on full time with Charlie Shaw well out of his goal pressing forward for an equaliser.
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 1926
Jimmy McGrory scores five as the black and golds of Aberdeen are beaten 6-2 at Parkhead. Adam McLean scores the other goal, but the talk of the 10,000 crowd is of no-one other than James McGrory.
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 1965
Celtic win their 3rd Scottish League Cup in a tough encounter against Rangers before a crowd of 107,609, a record for the tournament. The game is not quite as bad as it has been described by some commentators, but the occasion is marred by the invasion of Rangers fans at the end as Celtic were on their lap of honour. Celtic’s hero is John Hughes who slots away two first half penalties, but praise is also heaped upon goalkeeper Ronnie Simpson for the way that he radiated confidence and reassurance during that frenetic second-half. Indeed the whole team deserve praise for the way they worked hard for each other to prove that the Scottish Cup victory of April 1965 is no isolated occurrence and that Celtic were indeed here to stay. Including the Glasgow Cup, there are now three pieces of silver bedecked in green and white ribbons.
23rd October 1965, Celtic win the League Cup beating Rangers 2:1.
Yogi Hughes double. pic.twitter.com/5j5B1JJYZc
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 1971
A real Celtic horror story as one of Scottish football’s remarkable days unfolds. Celtic go down 1-4 to Partick Thistle in the League Cup Final. Billy McNeill is out injured but there seems to be no real excuse for losing four goals before half-time other than sheer complacency. Kenny Dalglish scores Celtic’s only goal. Stein is furious, but he must take his share of the blame. Big changes are forthcoming. Tommy Gemmell, for example, plays only one more game for Celtic, and Dixie Deans is bought from Motherwell.
WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2001
Why can’t Celtic play away from home in Europe? This question is frequently asked but never more so than tonight when they cannot even get a draw against Rosenborg, a team who are in no way Celtic’s superiors? It is a truly awful performance and things are not helped by the realisation that both Rosenborg goals were scored by Harald Brattbakk, a man who had his moments when he was with Celtic, but was scarcely in the category of Jimmy McGrory!
David Potter
23rd October 1982, Morton 1:2 Celtic.
McGarvey and Nicholas. @CharNicholas10 pic.twitter.com/8EtPQoWxy3
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2005, Kilmarnock 0:1 Celtic.
Petrov winner. @StanPetrov19 pic.twitter.com/xZjAr5wM0Q
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2011, Celtic 2:1 Aberdeen.
Ki and Mulgrew. @charlie_mulgrew pic.twitter.com/ejLZM26t3R
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2012, Barcelona 2:1 Celtic.
Samaras opens the scoring but we lose it in the final seconds. pic.twitter.com/VZsNgrmdK6
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2014, Celtic 2:1 Astra.
Scepovic and Johansen. @stefanjohansen pic.twitter.com/u5ksFKPQcp
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2016, Celtic beat Rangers 1:0 in the League Cup semi-final.
Dembele with the late winner. @MDembele_10 pic.twitter.com/saZddIsBxk
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
23rd October 2021, Celtic 2:0 St Johnstone.
Giakoumakis and Juranovic. pic.twitter.com/NWBqhQGkXe
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe785) October 22, 2023
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