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.
1997 had certainly seen some sort of improvement in Celtic since the truly awful days of the early 1990s. The Scottish Cup had been won in…
Putting Them Out Of The Scottish Cup – Quinn Comes Back to Haunt Rangers… There could be little doubt about who was the most-talked about man in…
This semi-final was a really rather remarkable occasion, the one-sidedness of the game and the total humiliation of the other team being something that was rather…
A Paradise Anthology by John C Traynor is an excellent addition to any Celtic supporters’ bookshelf. It is 191 pages of original Celtic poetry for every…
Well, this week was always going to be about next week anyway, if you get my meaning, but today we saw a lot of what we’ve…
I suppose I used to read too many of these Second World War comics but the phrases “cut off from my unit” and “behind enemy lines”…
Willie Maley was in a quandary. In front of him was his centre-forward Alec Bennett, more or less in tears and very upset. Alec was being…
Sandy McMahon, a Celtic hero! “Our Bhoys Have The Cup!” was the cry throughout the east end of Glasgow… SATURDAY 9 APRIL 1892 and “Our Bhoys…
Scottish Cup quarter-final, Celtic Park – 21 February 1970…Putting Them Out of The Scottish Cup – “Players summoned to SFA, Police headquarters and Glasgow Corporation to…
Putting Them Out of the Scottish Cup… Scottish Cup semi-final, 21 March 1925 Celtic: Shaw, W McStay and Hilley; Wilson, J McStay and McFarlane; Connolly, Thomson,…
There was little doubt that the early success of the Celtic Football Club in three and a half years had been little short of phenomenal… In…
This astonishing game at Celtic Park is remembered for the four players sent off, but it is a shame that this is how it is recalled,…
For the purpose of this discussion, let us talk about Rangers 1873 and theRangers 2012 combined to look at Celtic’s record against the club that have…
Well, it was good to get this one out of the way, and I am the first to admit that I was angry, frustrated and extremely…
“We’ll forgive everything, Cellic everything, if ye’s jist win the day!” – so bawled a leather voiced man with a scar down one side of his…
On this day in 2017 Celtic travelled to Tynecastle with a smaller than usual away support as the home side had restricted us to half a…
We are still no nearer to knowing who the new boss will be. A new one seems to be brought out every day and rejected by…
A few days in the life of Willie Fernie… We all know, I think what Willie Fernie was doing on 19 October 1957 as he orchestrated…
Celtic’s Empire Exhibition Cup Joy and Jimmy Delaney, ‘the best player of pure football that Celtic had ever had’… “In 38 there was a show Glasgow…
Celtic 1937-38 Champions – David Potter on our ‘devastating forward line’ of Jimmy Delaney, MacDonald, Crum, Divers and Murphy… In 1937 Celtic failed to repeat their…
Scotland’s (and Glasgow’s in particular) love of the game of football surprised even its own devotees in spring 1937. A world record crowd was set up…
Jimmy Delaney is one of the many Celtic players of whom one must occasionally ask the question “Could this all possibly be true?” His career needs to…
As we prepare to say goodbye to Scott Brown at the end of the season (it would be nice to say good bye to him with…
So, it is Falkirk at Celtic Park sometime on the weekend of 3/4 April. From what the commentator said on the radio, Falkirk were a little…
A disappointment in a way, but enough to give us a little hope for the Scottish Cup. We fell down in the predictable ways of not…
The arrival of a TV in people’s houses in the late 1950s and early 1960s opened new horizons. Football was very rarely allowed on TV, but…
We have read on The Celtic Star how Celtic won the Scottish League at Motherwell in 1966. They did the same 50 years earlier at the…
Twenty Things You May Know Or May Not Know About Willie Maley by Celtic Historian David Potter… 1. He was born in Newry, Ireland, on this…
Jock Stein’s transfer market dealings examined by Celtic historian David Potter… ON THIS DAY in 1965 Jock Stein was appointed as Celtic manager. Tonight Celtic Historian David…
This is a dark, dark day in our history. And there can be little doubt that we brought it all on ourselves. Indeed, there was something…