Celtic On This Day – 24th May – David Potter’s Celtic Diary

Celtic Historian David Potter each morning on The Celtic Star looks back at key Celtic events and matches on this day 24th May 1931. David’s latest bestseller The Celtic Rising ~ 1965: The Year Jock Stein Changed Everything is available now in print on Celtic Star Books.

SUNDAY 24th MAY 1931 – “the all-Irish Glasgow Celtics” beat the New York Giants 3:2 infront of 35k in New York with the Celtic goals coming from Jimmy McGrory (2) and Charlie Napier.  Celtic’s brilliant centre-forward McGrory came to Celtic’s rescue in the closing stages of this highly competitive tour match to give Celtic the win.

George Gillan scored

SATURDAY 24th MAY 1941 – The war is going badly for Britain and Celtic seem to have caught the mood of despair as they lose 1-2 in the Glasgow Charity Cup semi-final to Partick Thistle before a poor crowd of 7,180 fans at Celtic Park. George Gillan scores Celtic’s only goal.

SUNDAY 24th MAY 2015 –  Another Trophy Day at Paradise where Celtic take their revenge on Inverness Caley Thistle after that disgraceful Scottish Cup semi-final performance from the match officials that denied Ronny Deila a Treble in his first season as Celtic manager. This was an excellent Celtic performance with some outstanding play from the likes of Emilio Izaguirre and Nir Bitton, even Scepovic looked a decent player today, scoring twice with the other Celtic goals coming from Johansen, Griffiths and Commons.

David Potter

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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