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The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic diary highlights key Celtic-related events relevant to each day, today covering 7th October…

 

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 1905

Peter Somers scored For Celtic

Celtic supporters in the 25,000 crowd go home happy from Hampden, having seen their team beat Third Lanark 3-0 to win the Glasgow Cup. Jimmy Quinn, Peter Somers and Jimmy McMenemy are the scorers in what turns out to be an easy victory over last year’s Scottish Cup winners.

 

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 1916

Celtic win the Glasgow Cup for the second year running when they beat Clyde 3-2 in the final played at Celtic Park. The game is in fact easier for Celtic than it sounds, for Clyde’s second goal comes in the 89th minute. Peter Johnstone and Johnny McMaster are both playing for Celtic, on leave from the forces and listed as “Private Johnstone” and “Private McMaster”. Celtic’s goals come from Johnny Browning , Joe O’Kane and Joe Dodds. The popularity of wartime football is shown by the large crowd of 30,000.

Joe Dodds scored
Johnny Browning scored
Joe O’Kane scored

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 1922

‘Jean’ McFarlane scored
Joe Cassidy scored

 A thrilling Glasgow Derby today at Celtic Park as Celtic beat Partick Thistle 4-3 with two goals from Patsy Gallacher, one from “Jean” McFarlane and one from Joe Cassidy. Possibly Thistle deserved a draw, for Celtic were indebted to Patsy Gallacher’s late penalty for their victory. Many fans were plunged into grief today with the news of the death of Marie Lloyd, the famous singer who was known as “the Queen of the Music Hall”.

SATURDAY  7 OCTOBER 1939

Today’s trip to Hampden was like no other. The country had been at war for over a month, and football had been suspended. It had now started again, albeit on a more limited and restricted basis. Today was a Glasgow Cup game against Queen’s Park. It was a replay following last week’s 2-2 draw at Parkhead. In a surreal atmosphere before a limited crowd of 7,000, Celtic play very poorly and lose 0-1.

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 1964

Things have taken a turn for the better of late, and Celtic are now in the Scottish League Cup final. Tonight a competent performance at Parkhead sees a 3-0 win over Portuguese side Leixoes whom they drew with a fortnight ago in Portugal. They have thus qualified for the next round of the Inter Cities Fairs Cup thanks to two good goals from Steve Chalmers and a penalty from Bobby Murdoch.

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER 2007

Scott McDonald prods the ball home to snatch all three points in injury time

No-one would ever have believed that Celtic could beat both AC Milan and Gretna in the space of four days with both winners coming late from Scott McDonald. One of the lesser spotted Celts of this period Chris Killen scores Celtic’s other goal against Gretna today, but in fact it is a poor performance from Gordon Strachan’s side, and once could argue that Gretna played better than AC Milan did. This game is actually played at Fir Park Motherwell because Raydale Park, Gretna was not considered suitable for Premier League football.

David Potter

Join The Celtic Star at the Kerrydale on Thursday 19 October when we celebrate the launch of Matt Corr’s new book Majic, Stan and the King of Japan which tells the story of Gordon Strachan’s first season as Celtic manager. We’ll have the trophies that the Celtic team won that season plus well delighted welcome our special guests John Hartson and Stephen McManus, both stars of that Celtic team.

And we have other guests to be announced later this week plus there’s live music from the wonderful Boolavogue. Tickets are selling fast for what is sure to be a wonderful night of Celtic conversation and music and you can order below…

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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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