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.
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.16… 2016/17 was one of the greatest in the history of the club, as the team, rightly called “the…
The long journey down the A9 will have been a little sweeter, one feels, thanks to Anthony Ralston! It was a goal that frankly did not…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.15… Ronny Deila was an unknown factor when he took over in summer 2014. When the first League Cup…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.14… The Celtic triumph in the Scottish League Cup of season 2008/09 was an unusual, although welcome one. It…
Celtic 1 Motherwell 0… This one was not very good for one’s nerves. Things were hardly helped by the dismal collapse of Hearts before most supporters…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No. 13… It was a strange season, was 2005/06! It was the first season of Gordon Strachan as manager, and…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.12… If Celtic were on their knees in spring 2000, they were certainly back on their feet and up fighting…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.11… The Scottish League Cup win of March 2000 was in some ways the most precious of them all. It…
Celtic 3 Real Betis 2… Considering that this was a game where the result didn’t really matter all that much – apart form the half a…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.10… Season 1997/98 was of course obsessed from the start with the obsessive desire, nay the absolute necessity, to stop Rangers…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.9… Celtic’s lack of love with the Scottish League Cup continued to manifest itself as the 1970s turned into the 1980s…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS No.8… The 1970s were reasonably successful for Celtic generally, but not as far as the Scottish League Cup was concerned. We have…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.6… In summer 1968 Celtic found themselves drawn with Rangers for the second year in a row in the League…
Some really splendid football on display at Tannadice today, as Celtic, even without several key players, showed the world just what Ange Postecoglou’s side could do.…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.5… The League Cup win of 1967/68 was one of the best – involving an incredibly dramatic qualification from the…
SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.4… Everyone knows that 1966/67 was the season in which Celtic won everything including the European Cup. And yet it…
HARRY HOOD, TWICE AS GOOD by Matt Corr… “You can keep your Colin Stein We don’t need your Alan Gilzean We’ve got someone twice as good…
This was a great game of football, but not really conducive to relaxation with the last quarter of an hour in particular seeming to take a…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.3… The term “the grand scheme of things” is sometimes overused, but in the overall picture, (observed, admittedly, with the…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS No. 2 “Piling On The Agony Putting On The Style That’s what Glasgow Celtic have been doing all this while! One, two, three, four, five,…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.1… The first ten years of the Scottish League Cup had been a decade of woeful under-achievement for Celtic…
ALLOA ATHLETIC IN THE SCOTTISH CUP… There is no great tradition of Celtic playing Alloa Athletic in the Scottish Cup. There have only been four games,…
I missed this one, and was dependent on the excellent coverage of Celtic TV with pearls of wisdom from Hartson, Petrov and Donnelly, and my house…
This one hurt! The hurt lay in the fact that many players did well, but we still lost, and the goals that we lost were all…
The weekend’s results in the Scottish League Cup semi finals probably made a lot of people very happy with the Sunday game almost as good as…
There was an awful long amount of injury time, and you are always afraid that something might happen, but in the end it was reasonably comfortable…
Saturday 16 January 1971 in Dundee was a fine day for the time of year. Dry and not too cold, and a 22,000 crowd there to…
Bertie Auld won five League Cup winners medals. The geekish and pedantic might well challenge that statement and say that he missed the first one of…
Bertie Auld’s International debut was an unusual one. Scotland actually beat Holland 2-1 in a friendly in Holland (not necessarily a result that one would expect…
The next story about Bertie goes back to his Birmingham City days, to 7 December 1961. Birmingham were playing in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup against…