The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic diary highlights key Celtic-related events relevant to each day, today covering 5th October…
🗓 On this Day – 5th November 2005 :
The Brother Walfrid Statue outside the entrance to Celtic Park was unveiled 🍀 pic.twitter.com/7pmhRyEu1f
— Celtic Curio (@Celticcurio) November 5, 2023
Happy Birthday Greg Taylor. pic.twitter.com/ffEpYWzlcz
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 1929
Celtic really turn it on today to hammer hapless Falkirk 7-0 at Celtic Park today. The crowd is 10,000 and they see Celtic at their best. Jimmy McGrory scores a hat-trick, Paddy Connolly has two and Alec Thomson and Peter Scarff score the others.
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 1946
The form of the team has been absolutely terrible with only one win since the start of the season, but the support stays loyal, and they are there in huge numbers to see an honourable (and even unlucky) 2-2 draw at Douglas Park, Hamilton today. Tommy Kiernan, an honest journeyman rather than a superstar, scores the two goals.
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 1963
The paltry 17,000 crowd tells its own story about how awful this season has been, but today there is at least some fight in a 2-2 draw against Jock Stein’s Dunfermline at Celtic Park. Frank Haffey was injured and John Fallon was given a game in goal, and Bobby Murdoch and Frank Brogan scored the goals. But Jock Stein must have looked at the shambles that was Celtic in autumn 1963… and wondered.
WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1966
Celtic take their first step to Lisbon by beating F.C.Zurich 3-0 (5-0 on aggregate) in Zurich with two goals from Tommy Gemmell and one from Steve Chalmers. The Swiss had been bad losers after the first leg, but tonight they are simply well beaten by a superior side.
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 1991
You simply could not make this one up! Tony Cascarino had, frankly, underperformed at Celtic Park, a disappointment after what he had done elsewhere. In particular, he simply could not score a goal. But today against Hearts he was brought on as a substitute, scored a goal (at last) and then was sent off! Neither Tony nor Celtic knew whether to laugh or cry. For the record Celtic won the game 3-1 with Mark McNally and Charlie Nicholas the other scorers.
David Potter
5th November 1975, Celtic 3:1 Boavista.
Dalglish, Edvaldsson and Deans.
First time Celtic wore numbers on the back of the hoops. pic.twitter.com/uDssdCCR15
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
40 years ago today, Rangers 1:2 Celtic.
McGarvey and Burns.
Great scenes in the crowd at the end.👋 pic.twitter.com/WR2VW6Ma8W
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
5th November 1988, Celtic beat Hamilton 8 (EIGHT) nil.
McAvennie(3), McGhee(3), Stark and Miller. @MaccaFrank pic.twitter.com/hCdSKqkz4n
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
5th November 1994, Dundee Utd 2:2 Celtic.
Collins double. pic.twitter.com/XcnxDT8fyZ
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
5th November 2000, Kilmarnock 0:1 Celtic.
Thommo. @Alantommo8 pic.twitter.com/lZ4XcWMYgR
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
20 years ago today, Celtic 3:1 Anderlecht.
Larsson, Miller and Sutton. @chris_sutton73 pic.twitter.com/sQOoh2jsEW
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
15 years ago today, Celtic 1:1 Man Utd.
Great goal from McDonald. @ScottyMcD83 pic.twitter.com/jBBD3dWZDf
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
5th November 2016, Celtic 3:0 ICT.
Sinclair, Griffiths and Rogic. @Scotty_Sinclair @Tom_Rogic pic.twitter.com/fXipGyDMIq
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
A year ago today, Celtic 4:2 Dundee Utd.
2 goals in the last minute to win it.
Haksabanovic(2), Kyogo and Abada. @Kyogo_Furuhashi pic.twitter.com/sF3WSWIPkW
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe785) November 5, 2023
Matt Corr’s new book Majic, Stan and the King of Japan is out now and Neil Lennon, the Celtic captain that season, has written the foreword for us.
You can get a signed copy of the hardback version direct from Celtic Star Books by clicking on the image below. It’s also available an an e-book via Amazon Kindle and please note that all colour photographs that appear in the beautifully presented printed hardback book are also available in the Kindle version of Majic, Stan and the King of Japan…
