3. DUNDEE 5-1 CELTIC – 19 April 1980
Not just a scary game, more a scary ending to the season. Celtic finished one point behind Aberdeen in the title race, having failed to win half of their final eight games, including three defeats. Playing against a Dundee team that would eventually be relegated, Celtic were confident of a win to get the title quest back on track. Instead, it was a disaster at Dens Park.
It all started so well. Roy Aitken put the Hoops ahead after only seven minutes. Surely the expected easy victory would now happen? Instead, by half-time, Dundee had rallied and led 3-1. And with twenty minutes still to go, it was 5-1 to the Dark Blues and game (and ultimately title hopes) was over. Before the game, a 5-1 score might have been predicted. But the team who lost wouldn’t have been! And so this stands as another very bad day for the Celts.
Continued on the next page…Where more Celtic horrors await!
5-1 defeat at Ibrox in 1988. We went there as champions and took the lead then Andrews decided to become Dracula. The match started there 9 in a row. Can’t get any worse than that.
4-0 at St Mirren in March 2010. Tony Mowbray’s last game. Watching him sitting on the bench, totally passive and unable to do anything about what was happening, you knew it was the end for him, and you got the feeling that he knew it too. A good man, but the job was just too big for him.
Losing to the new Ibrox club in the Scottish Cup semi final of 2016 was one of the most horrible days of my supporting life and I’ve been attending since 1973. However, 2 plus points came out of it. Like the ICT defeat in 2000, the board got their finger out and gave us Brendan for the first time. The other was it allowed the David Gray last minute winner in the cup final. I’ve never celebrated or laughed so much at a non Celtic/Roma/Italy goal in my life.