So Celtic, I am informed, could have two games to play on Wednesday. Clyde in the Scottish Cup, if Sunday’s game is called off due to Storm Ciara and moved to Wednesday as Celtic’s SLO John Paul Taylor has suggested may happen according to The Celtic Star.
Fixture Info: If Sunday's match was to be postponed the rescheduled date is Wednesday, Feb 12.
— Celtic FC SLO (@CelticFCSLO) February 7, 2020
That of course is the night when the league’s bottom side Hearts are the visitors at Celtic Park and that game will therefore be postponed, although Celtic playing two games in one day is not unheard of. Indeed it happened in early July 2018 over in Austria but there’s a more famous example so I hope no-one goes around saying that this unprecedented and cruel to players or anything like that! It maybe a little hard on the players – but then the life of a professional football player is not, as some people think, a bed of roses. It can be a wee bit tough, now and again.
But then what about 1916 when life was a wee bit tougher? War-time regulations obliged Celtic to play two games on the one day on Saturday 15 April – v Raith Rovers at Celtic Park at 3.15pm and Motherwell at Fir Park at 6.00 (or basically as soon as Celtic could get there in their charabanc).
Celtic won them both 6-0 and 3-1, with only one change in personnel, Joe Cassidy replacing Joe O’Kane for the second game. So glory be to Shaw, McNair and McGregor; Young, Dodds and McMaster; McAtee, Gallacher, O’Kane/Cassidy, McMenemy and Browning! Oh, and by the way, they won the Scottish League in so doing!
They said that Sunny Jim was going about Glasgow that night looking for a third team to play!
And observe the date. 15 April 1916. The following Monday 24 April saw famous events in Dublin. I bet James Connolly, Scottish and probably a Hibs supporters but not unsympathetic to the Celtic, knew all about the two games in a day!
So two games in a day! Nae bother for the Celts!
David Potter
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