The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic Diary each morning on The Celtic Star looks back at key Celtic events and matches on this day 28th May 1888…
MONDAY 28th MAY 1888 – Celtic, founded last November, play their first game. They beat Rangers 5-2, but the Rangers team contains a few of their “swifts” or reserves. Old Celtic Park looks neat and trim for the game and a crowd of about 2,000 attend. After the game, both teams adjourn to the St.Mary’s Hall for refreshments and a soiree of entertainment “of the most sociable nature”.
28th May 1888, Celtic play their first ever game beating Rangers 5:2.https://t.co/B0mSVBaYUDhttps://t.co/2UtaRNo3Xk pic.twitter.com/7CbHWYkstJ
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) May 27, 2024
🗓 On This Day 28th May 1888 :
Celtic Football Club played their First ever match 🍀
Winning 5-2 against the now liquidated Rangers 👏🏼
Tom Maley grabbed a hattrick, James Kelly also scored but Neil McCallum had the honour of scoring our First ever goal ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/HROXLaIZ5E
— Celtic Curio (@Celticcurio) May 28, 2024
THURSDAY 28th MAY 1987 – Billy McNeill returns as manager of Celtic for the second time, famously agreeing in a car park in Clydebank. Celtic fans, having suffered a shocking season, are given a tremendous lift by this news.
SATURDAY 28th MAY 2005 – 50,385 are at Hampden to see an unusual and lacklustre Scottish Cup Final on a miserable rainy, misty day more like November than May. Celtic supporters remained depressed, for their team managed to throw away the SPL at Motherwell the previous Sunday in what has become known as Black Sunday, and in midweek, it was announced that Martin O’Neill was to stand down to look after his ill wife. But Alan Thompson scores in 10 minutes and Celtic hold on to that lead for the rest of the game. Chris Sutton misses a penalty, and Celtic are lucky when Gary Kenneth almost equalizes with a rising shot in added-on time. It is a nice touch to allow Martin O’Neill to collect the Scottish Cup at the end. It is Celtic’s 33rd success in this trophy.
28th May 2005, Celtic beat Dundee Utd 1:0 to win the Scottish Cup.
Thommo winner in Martin O’Neill’s last game in charge of Celtic. @Alantommo8
MoN slagging Suttons penalty.😂 @chris_sutton73 pic.twitter.com/dCNq8hp2mX
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) May 27, 2024
David Potter
28th May 2017, Henrik’s Heroes played Lubo’s Legends in a charity game at Celtic Park.@maccageezer @martin_compston @enrico6 @StanPetrov19 @SimonDonnelly13 @Jackie_Mc4 @TomBoyd02 pic.twitter.com/M4vBxikILP
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) May 27, 2024
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