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.
A competent rather than a spectacular win for Celtic tonight with the bonus of a clean sheet. The news from Perth was depressing but we are…
OK, let’s forget for a moment about 12 trophies in a row and quadruple trebles. We have now won 40 Scottish Cups while the next best…
Scottish Cup Final, 21 April 1956 Hampden Park – Hearts 3 Celtic 1 The 1950s and early 1960s are rich in horror stories. This was one…
Scottish Cup Final, April 20 1907 Hampden Park Celtic 3 Hearts 0 Until this year, no team had achieved the League and Cup Double in Scotland.…
Scottish Cup Final – 6 April 1901 Ibrox Stadium – Hearts 4 Celtic 3 There are quite a few “hard luck” stories in our Scottish Cup…
It is nor often that insomnia can be brought on by laughter and happiness, but that’s what happened, I imagine, to quite a few of us…
IF I can count correctly, Celtic have met Hearts 32 times in the Scottish Cup, have won 20 of them, drawn 5 and lost 7. There…
I always knew this ground as Recreation Park, and I want to keep it like this! Alloa won the Second Division Championship in 1922, and Willie…
The Scottish League is not yet dead and buried as far as we are concerned…but it is pretty close to it. In real terms, (if we…
As in 2020, white Christmases were not common, but in 1909 there was rain with loads of mud, but that sort of thing did not stop…
So, has the corner been turned? Dare we hope so? Today was a really good performance. There should have been more goals and the victory should…
Ian Young was one of my heroes. He had played one or two games in season 1962/63 but it was season 1963 that he became a…
Merrier Christmases for Celtic – Like 1935… It was indeed the bleak midwinter. 21 December 1935 was frosty and foggy, so much so that many other…
Better! Encouraging! But let’s not go any further than that. I heard Stephen Craigan using words like “terrific” and “vibrant”. That was maybe going a little…
Things were happening in December 2000. Celtic had narrowly gone out of the UEFA Cup to Bordeaux, but everything else was good – more or less.…
Christmas need not be a time of sadness and depression as this one clearly is. There have been many far better Christmases than this one. Take…
Celtic is a concept that does not give itself to easy comprehension. We are suffering at the moment, and it has to be said that unless…
More disappointment for Celtic, I’m afraid to say. This time there was slightly more commitment and the defence was marginally better than it had been of…
Chris Sutton asked early in the second half which Celtic was going to turn up, and I think we got an answer. But yet, there was…
Tom Maley, the son of a soldier by the same name, was born in Portsmouth in 1864 and is thus four years older than Willie. He…
FOUR STRAIGHT HOME DEFEATS FOR CELTIC…here’s what happened the last time Celtic lost four games on the bounce at Celtic Park… Score: Celtic 2 Partick Thistle…
It hurts to say it, but now I must join those who say that our Manager has to go. There can now be no possible excuse…
There was something so predictable about this. The game turned on two key moments. The first was when Kristoffer Ajer refused to go when that ball…
I had often been told by people who should have known better that Rangers = Scotland = blue as distinct from Celtic = Ireland = green,…
Not a good day for Celtic! A draw was probably a fair result, for Celtic deserved something for their belated fight back, but we really could…
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…
“Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding…” – so begins the stirring song of Hugh O’Donnell, the “dauntless red Hugh” of the 16th century who…
Patsy Gallacher was born in Milford Poor House, County Donegal in 1891. He spent his early years in Ramelton before his parents decided to join the…
I was always told that the first Celtic team to wear the green and white horizontal stripes (they weren’t called the Hoops until decades later!) was…
John Deans’ career was going nowhere fast in autumn 1971. He was playing for Motherwell, or rather he wasn’t, for he was in the middle of…