ON TUESDAY 8 MAY 1888, the first ever game is played on this evening at Old Celtic Park.
Excitement has been growing in the East End of Glasgow for some time and an astonishing crowd of 5,000 turned up to see a game between Hibernian the “mother club” of Celtic, and Cowlairs, Celtic’s closest neighbours. No goals were scored, but the pitch played well and it was a tribute to the hard work that the volunteers have put in over the winter.
The first game involving the new Celtic team would be played around three weeks later when Celtic skelped a Rangers XI 5-2.
The Celtic support, as you can see from the photograph above, have never forgotten where we have come from or why the club was formed in the first place.
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