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
