Celtic Historian David Potter each morning on The Celtic Star looks back at key Celtic events and matches on this day starting on 28th April 1909. David’s latest bestseller The Celtic Rising ~ 1965: The Year Jock Stein Changed Everything is available now in print on Celtic Star Books, and also on Amazon kindle, links below…
WEDNESDAY 28th APRIL 1909 – Celtic are now within one victory of the Scottish League Championship. Today at Cathkin Park (Hampden still lies in ruins after the riot) Celtic beat Queen’s Park 5-0 with a hat-trick from Jimmy Quinn and two goals from Davie McLean. Celtic supporters celebrate in the rain (which came on near the end) as if the League is already theirs, but there were still two games to go, one at Easter Road and the other at Douglas Park, Hamilton. The Glasgow Herald, unashamedly pro-Queen’s Park, has to admit that Celtic are good.
MONDAY 28th APRIL 1919 – A very tight game at Tynecastle this Edinburgh Holiday Monday, but the result puts Celtic to the top of the League with only one game to go – at Somerset Park a week come Saturday after the Victory International this weekend. Snow has been cleared off the pitch, and the pitch is in good condition. Celtic look on easy street with a 3-0 lead, (two from Jimmy McColl and one from Andy McAtee) but then Andy Wilson, a Scottish Internationalist, scores twice for Hearts in the latter stages, and Shaw, McNair and Dodds have to defend desperately. In spite of the Spanish flu pandemic, a crowd of 15,000 see a good game.
WEDNESDAY 28th APRIL 1965 – Normally a 1-5 defeat would lead to anguish and gnashing of teeth, but not this one. It came on the back of the Scottish Cup victory and it was on the ground of the same opponents, Dunfermline Athletic. The Pars clearly had a point to prove, and duly did so, but Jock Stein, who always retained a soft spot for Dunfermline, was wholesome in his congratulations. John Hughes scored Celtic’s only goal in this irrelevant fixture.
SATURDAY 28th APRIL 1973 – Celtic win the Scottish League Championship for the eighth year in a row by beating Hibs 3-0 at Easter Road before a packed crowd of 45,453. Rangers have fought hard this year and Celtic have a difficult final fixture, but they rise magnificently to the occasion with a goal from Dixie Deans in the first half, then Kenny Dalglish and Dixie Deans again in the second half. It is a great triumph for Jock Stein after the bad midwinter that the team suffered, and the team is now virtually unrecognisable from the team that won the first championship in the sequence back in 1966. Only Billy McNeill, Bobby Murdoch and Jimmy Johnstone remain from 1966.
50 years ago today, Celtic win 3:0 at Easter Road to make it 8 In A Row.🏆
Dixie Deans double and Dalglish. @kennethdalglish pic.twitter.com/mrLNBkcOYU
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) April 27, 2023
SUNDAY 28th APRIL 2002 – The League has been well won weeks ago, but Celtic beat Hearts 4-1 at Tynecastle. Youngsters Shaun Maloney and Simon Lynch score two each. The game ends with an undignified squabble about who is to take a last minute penalty which would give either Maloney or Lynch a hat-trick. Maloney wins the argument, but them misses the penalty to general hilarity.
28th April 2002, Hearts 1:4 Celtic.
Maloney(2) and Lynch(2).
Best remembered for those 2 arguing over a penalty in the last minute which Maloney would then miss.😂 pic.twitter.com/CippqDnReo
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) April 27, 2023
David Potter
110 years ago, Celtic and Rangers play out a friendly in Inverness.https://t.co/NpU3TGfdN9 pic.twitter.com/6qILKSgyka
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) April 27, 2023
28 April 1945. Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini (aged 61), and his mistress, Clara Petacci (aged 33), were executed by Italian partisans. Their corpses were the humiliatingly hung upside down from the roof of a petrol station. pic.twitter.com/1IejM1F2JA
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) April 28, 2023
28th April 1969, Celtic parade the Treble completed a few days previous.https://t.co/44Kt2RMRfB pic.twitter.com/K2DSsnxd6U
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) April 27, 2023
28th April 1970, Celtic played Fraserburgh FC in aid of the 1970 Fraserburgh Lifeboat Disaster Fund.
A week before travelling to Milan for the European Cup final.https://t.co/k3kjZaqwEE @ntvceltichttps://t.co/eB6HWH6awl @TheCelticWiki pic.twitter.com/QTYcW61BTI
— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) April 27, 2023
