Celtic FC On This Day

David Potter

Description

Celtic On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Parkhead club.From humble and noble origins of trying to feed the poor of Glasgow's East End, the club has risen to be a world institution with followers in all parts of the globe, such has been the lasting impact of the Scottish and Irish diaspora. Featuring the European exploits, the many triumphs on the Scottish scene and the one-off glories of the all British victories of 1902, 1938 and 1953. With individual entries for each day of the year, and multiple entries for busier times, this book not only cover the ups but also the downs.Key features- Part of the popular and successful On This Day series which features a number of football, cricket and sports clubs- Includes contemporary and historic images of club legends and from the key events and matches from the club's colourful history- Written by veteran football author and historian David Potter, author of a number of football titles

Informations

• Publié par: Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781909178212
• Langue: English

Extrait

CELTIC FC
On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
All statistics, facts and figures are correct as of 31st July 2012
David Potter
David Potter has asserted his rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
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First published 2012
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This book is dedicated to all members, past, present and future of the Joseph Rafferty Celtic Supporters’ Bus from Kirkcaldy with whom I have shared “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” for well over a decade, and of whom I am honoured to be the chairman. Our banner is seen at most Celtic games, and if anyone deserves success, it is certainly the guys who follow the club every week. “Football without fans is nothing,” said Jock Stein.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My grateful thanks go to all who have ever written about Celtic and whose works I have consulted. In particular, thanks are due to the late Eugene MacBride who researched every single game that Celtic have ever played, and who bequeathed me his “fascicles” as he loved to call them. In addition, I must thank the staff at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library and the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh who have always been very helpful.
Oral tradition is also very important and in this regard I owe a great debt of gratitude to my late father Angus Potter whose love of Celtic was total and his recall impeccable. In this respect also, Tom Campbell and George Sheridan have been very helpful, as well as the countless people that I have ever spoken to about Celtic. My loving wife Rosemary has also been very supportive, knowing always when the time is ripe to “leave him alone” when “he” has been engaged on some knotty but fascinating problem of Celtic history.
INTRODUCTION
Celtic FC On This Day has been a fascinating book to research and to write. The history of Celtic and all the great men who have been associated with this mighty institution has been written many times, but it still continues to fascinate. The club means so much to so many people throughout the world, and has ever since that day on 1888 when the first game was played. It would, therefore, be remiss of me not to produce this “diary” type book, so that on any day of the year, a supporter can find out at least one event that affected Celtic in the past.
This club’s history is like no other in that width of experiences that the author has at his disposal. There are the heady days of Lisbon, for example, to be balanced by many heartbreaks in Europe, many triumphs in the three Scottish tournaments to be offset against the horrors that have happened against Arthurlie, Inverness and Clyde. Games against Rangers are always special with their own particular brand of triumph and disaster, but the mistake must never be made of thinking that they are the only important games. As Jock Stein once said: “The two points you get for beating St Johnstone and Falkirk are just as important.”
Great characters abound: Sandy McMahon, Dan McArthur, Jimmy Quinn, Patsy Gallacher, Jimmy McGrory, Jimmy Delaney, Charlie Tully, Bobby Murdoch, Jimmy Johnstone, Dixie Deans and Henrik Larsson, but these men, great as they were, would have been nothing without the other men in the team and indeed the support of all those throughout the ages who have stood on terracings and sat in stands to support the men who wear the green.
It is important to realise that supporting Celtic is a continuum. It has gone on since 1888, and will continue for ever, perhaps – on every day of the year. This is why this book is written.
David Potter
THURSDAY 1st JANUARY 1914
Celtic begin the last year of peace with an excellent 4-0 over Rangers at Parkhead before 75,000. Johnny Browning scores twice, Sunny Jim Young another but the highlight is the tremendous goal scored from long distance by Jimmy McMenemy.
SATURDAY 1st JANUARY 1921
70,000 see Joe Cassidy score twice at Ibrox as Celtic defeat Rangers 2-0. The second is a dummy by Tommy McInally whose cry of “Joe!” is heard even in the stand as he jumps over the ball. Contemporary reports give vivid accounts of the Celtic Brake Clubs returning home from Ibrox with colours flying, bugles blowing and songs being sung.
SATURDAY 1st JANUARY 1983
The new Ibrox stadium is very impressive, but Celtic retain the edge over their rivals this season with a 2-1 win, the goals by Paul McStay and Charlie Nicholas with Nicholas’s as he transferred the ball from one foot to the other before crashing home looking particularly spectacular.
SATURDAY 2nd JANUARY 1909
Yesterday’s 3-1 win over Rangers at Ibrox is welcome but comes at a cost with injuries, not least to goalkeeper Davie Adams. Sunny Jim Young suggests to Maley that rather than try to find a new goalkeeper on New Year’s Night, he (Sunny Jim) could take over, for he was unable to play in his normal position of right-half because of a leg injury. Rather against his better judgement, Maley agrees to this for today’s game at Kilmarnock, and Celtic duly lose 3-1, their goal coming from Willie Loney. Perhaps the celebrations of yesterday’s New Year Day victory were a trifle over-zealous.
SATURDAY 2nd JANUARY 1971
This is one of Scottish football’s saddest days as 66 Rangers supporters die in the immediate aftermath of the Old Firm game at Ibrox. Celtic and Rangers supporters are united in grief for this terrible tragedy caused by crushing on the infamous Stairway 13 at Ibrox. The game had been good with Jimmy Johnstone scoring Celtic’s goal in the 1-1 draw.
SATURDAY 2nd JANUARY 1988
Celtic begin their Centenary Year in style with a 2-0 win over Rangers at Parkhead. Frank McAvennie scores the goals which give Celtic the edge in the race for the championship. 60,800 applaud a stylish Celtic performance.
MONDAY 3rd JANUARY 1955
30,000 are at Celtic Park to see Celtic beat Raith Rovers 4-1 with goals by Bobby Evans, Bobby Collins, Jimmy Walsh and Charlie Tully, a fine “bounce-back” after a disappointing performance at Ibrox on New Year’s Day.
MONDAY 3rd JANUARY 1966
If there were the slightest doubt that the Glasgow pendulum were beginning to tilt towards Celtic, it is dispelled as Celtic put Rangers to the sword in a 5-1 thrashing on a bone hard pitch as the mist begins to descend over Celtic Park. Rangers score first through Davie Wilson but in the second half, Steve Chalmers scores a hat-trick and Charlie Gallagher and Bobby Murdoch one each to record an emphatic victory.
SATURDAY 4th JANUARY 1964
Celtic, frustrated by their narrow defeat to Rangers on New Year’s Day and their feckless “hangover” draw with Third Lanark at Cathkin the day after, take it out on Falkirk whom they hammer 7-0 with a hat-trick from Steve Chalmers, two from John Divers and one each from Jimmy Johnstone and John Hughes.
SATURDAY 5th JANUARY 1963
Following New Year’s Day’s 4-0 defeat at Ibrox, wholesale changes are made and the bullet is bitten in the dropping of Pat Crerand, the man held to be largely responsible for the defeat. In addition Dunky Mackay and Jim Kennedy are dropped, in come youngsters Ian Young and Tommy Gemmell, and Billy McNeill is made captain. These changes work a treat, and Celtic win 5-1 at Aberdeen with a hat-trick from John Hughes and two from Bobby Craig. The Celtic fans, small in numbers but extremely vocal in the 16,000 crowd and as always on good terms with the Aberdeen fans, roar their support for the team.
SATURDAY 6th JANUARY 2007
Dumbarton make one of their rare visits to Parkhead on Scottish Cup business but are beaten 4-0 by a strong Celtic side before 18,685 fans. Maciej Zurawski scores twice in the first ten minutes, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink adds another before half-time, then in a pedestrian second half, in which some Celtic fans are even heard encouraging the Sons of the Rock, Derek Riordan adds another.
SATURDAY 7th JANUARY 1905
Only 2,500 are at Celtic Park on a miserable day to see Celtic beat Port Glasgow 3-0. Davie Hamilton scores twice and the other goal is an own goal. Celtic remain on course for the league championship, but another five games are still to be played.
SUNDAY 8th JANUARY 2006
It is one of Celtic’s saddest days in recent years when they go down 2-1 to First Division side Clyde at Broadwood in front of TV cameras and a 7,589 crowd. The only explanation is the old one of taking them too lightly, and Gordon Strachan making a tactical blunder of playing two debutants, Roy Keane and Du Wei, on the same day. The Chinaman Du Wei in particular looks out of place on the difficult pitch against fast running Scottish forwards. Two down at half-time, Celtic do attempt to rally in the second half, but Zurawski’s goal comes too late, and Celtic exit the Scottish Cup (which they won last year) at the first time of asking.
SATURDAY 9th JANUARY 1897
Celtic go out of the Scottish Cup in a 4-2 defeat to Arthurlie at Dunterlie Park, Barrhead. It is a result that will haunt Celtic and their supporters for the next hundred years or more, and it is all caused by internal bick