6. CELTIC 1-3 INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE – 8 February 2000
Inspiring a still famous newspaper headline, this match proved to the death knell for John Barnes’ time in charge of the club. Celtic’s home draw against Inverness was expected to be a standard victory for the Bhoys. The first sign of problems came when the original game was postponed owing to high winds and stadium problems.
The replayed match was held midweek in front of a less than capacity crowd. Things started badly – ICT lead after 16 minutes – but that seemed to wake up Celtic who equalised a minute later through Burchill. But seven minutes later, a Moravick own goal made it 2-1 to the visitors, the same story at half-time.
Any hopes of the second half bringing improvement were forlorn. Unbeknown to the fans, a half-time fight meant Mark Viduka refused to play in the second half. And when Inverness went 3-1 ahead on 57 minutes, the writing seemed to be on the wall. And so it was for Celtic’s Scottish Cup hopes – and Barnes’ time at the club.
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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.