David was a distinguished Celtic author and historian and writer for The Celtic Star. He lived in Kirkcaldy and followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. He was a retired teacher and his other interests were cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns. David Potter passed away on 29 July 2023 after a short illness. He was posthumously awarded a Special Recognition award by Celtic FC at the club's Player of the Year awards in May 2024. David's widow Rosemary accepted the award to huge applause from the Celtic Supporters in the Hydro.
Month 3, Day 25 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
It is the custom in quite a few Celtic families (well it is in mine, anyway!) for a grandparent to cradle a newly born child in…
Month 3, Day 24 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
The Celtic Rising: The League Cup final on this day in 1965… Part 3: Winners and losers The full-time whistle came, the Cup was presented amidst…
The Celtic Rising: The League Cup final on this day in 1965… Part 2: Yogi on the spot twice as Celtic triumph The precedents were hardly…
The Celtic Rising: The League Cup final on this day in 1965… Part 1: This was possibly the most significant Celtic v Rangers game of them…
Month 3, Day 23 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
It is a shame that such a game as this one – a credit to both teams, incidentally – has to be dominated by VAR. One…
Month 3, Day 22 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Month 3, Day 21 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Seldom have Celtic been better served than they way they were by Bobby Hogg who played something like 538 times for the club – a figure…
Month 3, Day 20 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Not really an awful lot about this game that we didn’t know before, other than that our team played superbly, and that there wasn’t a poor…
Month 3, Day 19 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
It was a totally different matter on Saturday when Hearts came to town. The events of Saturday, 24 April 1965 had effectively caused Celtic and Hearts…
Month 3, Day 18 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
The year 2020 will go down as one of the horror years of world history, as the press,TV and politicians combine to plunge us into the…
The following story is likely to strain the belief of anyone, but I am assured by one of the characters that it did happen. It really…
It was a sign of how far Celtic had slipped that they failed to win a League and Cup double in any of the years between…
Willie Lyon was anything but a Celt in background, ethnicity or even (in his early days) inclination. He was an Englishman whose family had moved to…
Month 3, Day 17 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Month 3, Day 16 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
A splendid day all round, and it just shows how good Celtic can be if we take our chances! The play was of a sparking nature…
Month 3, Day 15 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Month 3, Day 14 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Month 3, Day 13 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
Last night was by no means a highlight of anyone’s life, but at least one good thing has come out of it, and it concerns the…
This was a painful one to take, mainly because it all boiled down to not taking chances, in particular that one in the first minute, and…
Month 3, Day 12 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key…
It is now over 60 years ago since I saw an old man shake his head after a narrow defeat from Dundee and say “Tak yer…