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February
| 1st | 1913: Celtic defeated Third Lanark 2-0, and completed the set to have defeated all five Glasgow rivals over the past month and not conceded a goal!
1940: Willie Maley officially retires as manager of Celtic and is replaced by Jimmy McStay. 2010: Irish international striker Robbie Keane signs for Celtic on a 6-month loan deal from Tottenham Hotspur. 2011: Reamonn Gormley, a young Celtic supporter who went to Thailand to help the Good Child Foundation/Thai Tims, is attacked and killed after watching a Celtic game in Blantyre. RIP 2015: Celtic 2-0 TheRangers, League Cup, first ever meeting between the two clubs. Griffiths & Commons score winners. |
| 2nd | 1889: Celtic 0-3 Third Lanark, Scottish Cup Final in their first season. It was voided & then replayed after protests by Third Lanark!
1928: Billy McPhail born in Glasgow. 1977: Celtic 5-0 Airdrie, Scottish Cup; Joe Craig becomes one of a select band of Celtic players to have scored 4 goals in one game. 2020: World Palindrome Day: 02 02 2020: Appropriately Celtic debutant Stephen Welsh is 20 and was born in 2000, and Celtic’s number 2 scored the 2nd goal for Celtic who increased their lead over Sevco in the league title race by 2 more points! |
| 3rd | 1909: Celtic Park hosts an Australia v England rugby league match in what was a pioneering tour for the Australian side. Celtic attempt to sign Australia’s legendary dual rugby code player HH Messenger after this game to no avail.
1917: Celtic 5-0 Raith Rovers; Number 53 in Celtic’s unbeaten run is a nap hand win over the Fifers at Parkhead before 16,000 spectators. 1963: Pat Crerand transferred to Manchester United for £56,000 |
| 4th | 1952: Third Lanark 2-1 Celtic, Scottish Cup Replay: Defending Cup Champions out at the first hurdle; tie went into extra-time.
2012: Inverness CT 0-2 Celtic, Scottish Cup; Theme for the day was the “impending” doom for the Huns (expected closure, admin etc etc due to the tax case) |
| 5th | 1889: Meeting held to discuss the protest about the previous Saturday’s Scottish Cup Final. Final to be replayed on the 9th Feb.
2017: St Johnstone 2-5 Celtic, SP; Celtic 27pts ahead in first spot, note second place Aberdeen are closer in pts to Inv Ct at bottom of the league than to Celtic. |
| 6th | 1915: James Stokes was a recipient of the Victoria Cross given after a heroic wartime action, but he sadly finally fell riddled with bullets only 20 yards from the objective.
1954: Having fought back from a two goal deficit Celtic fall to a late Hearts winner as the Edinburgh club win a thrilling league clash 3-2 in front of 47,519 at Tynecastle 2011: Rangers 2-2 Celtic, Scottish Cup Birth of the ‘Broony’! A contentious match but less remembered is that this was the first Celtic match ever broadcast in 3D! A short lived experiment. |
| 7th | 1973: Andy Lynch is signed from Hearts for a fee of £35,000
1987: Celtic 3-0 St Mirren, League; Sunday Mail: “A slip of a lad called Mark Smith stole the show at Parkhead”. 2004: Hearts 0-3 Celtic, Scottish Cup; Future Celtic players Steven Pressley and Paul Hartley lined up for Hearts. Hartley was sent off. 2016: Celtic defeat East Kilbride FC in the Scottish Cup! |
| 8th | 1975: Arbroath 2-2 Celtic, League; Gate give way under pressure and a fan, Ian Hosie, is paralysed from the chest down.
1992: Celtic 2-0 Airdrieonians, League; Tom Boyd made his Celtic debut after joining from Chelsea in a swap deal for Tony Cascarino. 2000: Celtic crash to a 3-1 Scottish Cup defeat at home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle. |
| 9th | 1889: Celtic lose 1-2 Third Lanark in the Scottish Cup Final Replay, in their first season
1905: Early Celtic great Barney Battles dies at the age of 30 with pneumonia. 1987: Aberdeen 0-1 Celtic, Scottish Cup 3rd Rd 2nd Replay; played at neutral venue – Dens Park Dundee. 2018: Ex-Celt Liam Miller dies prematurely from cancer. Minute silence held next day for him at Celtic 3-2 victory v Partick. |
| 10th | 2000: John Barnes sacked as Celtic manager after less than a season in charge.
2008: Aberdeen 1-5 Celtic, League; Debut game for Barry Robson, who scored with his first touch |
| 11th | Japanese National day.
1978: Celtic reveal that Danny McGrain has diabetes |
| 12th | 1927: John Thomson plays his first game for Celtic at Dens Park. Celtic are 2-1 winners. |
| 13th | 1960: Celtic draw 1-1 in the Scottish Cup in front of 37,000 fans at St Mirren |
| 14th | 1891: Celtic 4-0 Third Lanark, Celtic win the Glasgow Cup, the club’s first major trophy. |
| 15th | 1950: Jock Weir scores for the Bhoys as Celtic draw 1-1 at Thrid Lanark in Second Round of Scottish Cup. |
| 16th | Lithuanian National Day: The small community in Scotland has given Celtic such notable names as Billy McNeill & John Jack, and Matt Busby to Man Utd.
1931: Bobby Collins born in Govanhill, Glasgow. |
| 17th | 1948: Celtic sign Jock Weir from Blackburn Rovers for a fee of £7,000 |
| 18th | 1967: Celtic demolish Elgin City 7-0 in the second round of the Scottish Cup. |
| 19th | 1940: Ex-Celtic captain Jimmy McStay announced as the new Celtic manager, taking over from Willie Maley after 50 years in charge.
2006: Maciej Zurawski hits four goals as Celtic thrash Dunfermline 8-1 at East End Park to create a then new SPL record. |
| 20th | 2011: Celtic 3-0 Rangers, SPL; Birth of “Let’s all do the Broony“ |
| 21st | 1953: Charlie Tully scores direct from a corner in the Scottish Cup tie at Falkirk. The ref orders him to retake it and Tully scores again. Celtic win 3-2. |
| 22nd | 2014: Hearts 0-2 Celtic, SP; Fraser Forster breaks record for longest spell in Scottish league history without conceding a goal. |
| 23rd | 1924: Celtic defeat an Irish Free State select side 3-0 in a friendly before a crowd of 22,000 at Dalymount Park, Dublin |
| 24th | 1960: Celtic fightback from 3-1 down at half-time to draw 4-4 with St Mirren (aet) in a Scottish Cup Second Round replay at Parkhead. |
| 25th | 1891: Celtic presented with the Glasgow Cup, after their victory over Third Lanark on 14th February 1891 |
| 26th | 2019: Brendan Rodgers walks out on Celtic! |
| 27th | 1961: John Hughes hits a double as Celtic come from a goal behind to thrash Clyde 6-1 in a league tie at Parkhead.
1965: Steve Chalmers and John Hughes are on target as Celtic defeat Kilmarnock 2-0 in a league match at Parkhead. |
| 28th | 2001: Neil Lennon is verbally abused and booed by his own supporters as he makes his first appearance for Northern Ireland since signing for Celtic. |
| 29th | Celtic have rarely ever played on this date (unsurprisingly) but have scored 5 goals on this date a few times: 2004 (Livingston), 1964 (East Stirlingshire), 1960 (St Mirren)
1896: Celtic defeat Third Lanark 2-1 away in the league, first time Celtic played on this rare date. 2004: Celtic thrash St Johnstone 5-1 to go 16 points clear at the top of the SPL. |
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