A Celtic fans' group defied a club appeal and held aloft Palestinian flags before Wednesday's Champions League match on 25th Oct 2023.

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#OTD in 1967 – Celtic Football Club become the first Scottish and northern European team to win the European Cup, beating Inter 2-1 in the Estádio Nacional, in Lisbon, Portugal.

An estimated crowd of 70,000 crammed into the Estádio Nacional near Lisbon, Portugal to witness the Glasgow side lift the greatest prize in club football, defeating Inter Milan 2–1. As the final whistle blew, euphoric Celtic fans poured onto the pitch to celebrate their team’s victory, many whooping with joy and waving banners. Jock Stein, said: “There is not a prouder man on God’s Earth than me…

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2023/24 SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP MATCH DAY 31

Rangers 3-3 Celtic 7th April 2024 Ibrox Stadium

Tavernier (55' pen), Sima (86'), Matondo (90+3') Maeda (1'), O'Riley (34' pen), Idah (87')

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Today we take time out to remember the trasgic events of January 2nd 1971, when 66 supporters were killed and more than 200 injuries.on stairway 13 at Ibrox Stadium Glasgow.

There is still a commonly held myth that many in the home support had left the ground after Celtic had taken the lead and the ensuing disaster unfolded when fans tried to get back in after Rangers had levelled. This was proven to be completely untrue in the accident enquiry that followed, which showed that the victims had all been going in the one direction, out the ground - possibly home to their friends and families, when the crush began.

What was never conclusively established was the trigger although some reports at the time claimed that the crush began when a child who was being carried on his father’s shoulders fell, sparking a fatal chain reaction.

Every modern fan can relate to that moment. Everyone has stood in a crowd, trying to get in or out of a ground and feeling others push and squeeze behind you.

It is difficult, however, to imagine just how those fans would have felt that day when they realised that something was wrong, something was different. That people were trapped and that those angry shouts for space were turning into ones of panic and terror.

When the crowd eventually did disperse, police and ambulance services found bodies piled six feet high.

Soon, injured victims were being carried onto the pitch where medical staff and management from both Celtic and Rangers joined the desperate efforts to try and save them. The youngest victim that day in 1971 was nine-year-old Neil Pickup who had travelled up from Liverpool for the game.

Also listed below the statue to mark the fateful day at Ibrox are the names Peter Easton, Martin Paton, Mason Phillips, Brian Todd and Douglas Morrison, five boys aged between 13 and 15, all from the same village in Fife who never returned home.

Celtic Football Club 1997-99 by Leonardo Secondo

The whole stadium Class act from Celtic fans

Fans of Scotland's Celtic Football Club display Palestine flags before their UEFA Champions League match against Atletico Madrid at Celtic Park, Glasgow, UK on October 25, 2023 [Hargi/Al Jazeera]

Cross Border Cups With Scotland

How about Saudi Arabia fund a cross border club trophy with teams from Saudi Arabia, Scotland, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France, North America, Africa and other European nations? Saudi Arabia has wealth, but Scotland has intense passionate supporters. Clubs like Glasgow Celtic, Aberdeen, Glasgow Rangers, Motherwell, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Dundee, and Dundee United could bring passionate games and lore to Saudi soccer.How about cross border cups for Scottish football. I say a good way for Scottish football to improve is to have cross border trophies on top of domestic and European football.There are an entire host of ideas that could happen. Bring back the Anglo Scottish Cup.Change the Scottish Premiership to a 16 team 30 game league. Then have extra cross border cups.Ideas could include a North Atlantic League Cup. With the top four to 8 SPFL clubs playing a group stage trophy with teams from Europe, Asia, or Africa, or North America, or Saudi Arabia.The Scottish allow Welsh and Northern Ireland club sides in the Scottish Challenge Cup.The Scottish and Welsh Rugby clubs travel to places like South Africa, and Italy. And UEFA soccer has seen Scottish sides travel to Central Asia. So football clubs could travel 5 or 8 times a year to the USA, or Africa. In UEFA trophies Scottish and Welsh sides have been to Central Asia.Other ideas could include having all Scottish Premiership sides not in Europe, plus selected Welsh Cymru Premier club sides, and perhaps Belgian, and North West French sides in the Football League Trophy. There could easily be 16 teams added to the EFL Trophy with a little reorganisation of the trophy to add the new sides.Perhaps all Scots Championsip sides, Welsh Cymru Premier sides, and some North Western French sides in the non-league FA Trophy.

Or a Celtic Nations Club Cup of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Ulster, Cornish, Cumbria, Brittany, Isle of Man and Yorkshire club sides.Perhaps leading Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, Belgian or German sides invited as guests into the Engliah FA Cup, or English League Cup.I do not support merging the British leagues, as people would wrongly think Scotland was part of England. And all the Scottish trophies in history would be relegated to the status of lower tier trophies. While all the English trophies would be seen as forerunners of the British trophies. So Scottish clubs would be seen to be reset as having won ZERO trophies. Also 30 trips into England a year might be too much bit 5 to 8 times a year would keep it a novelty and highlight of the season.We need Pan-Great Britain Cups on top of domestic and European football.If we had a British League a club like Dundee could make 25 trips year of up to 800 miles. That would be too tough. It has to be at a manageable number of games.

just out of curiosity, is there any historical reason (other than… the obvious) why irish [catholics] really like celtic? i'm asking because they're not even an irish football team, they're scottish, so i was wondering why they have such big supporters outside of scotland (and i guess the same for protestants and the scottish rangers)

i remember one day celtic was playing in my country and i saw many irish (and palestinians<3) flags everywhere

It's complicated but to put it simply Glasgow's religious divide is pretty much as bad as NI's and Celtic is typically the Catholic team and Rangers in the Protestant one. this gets as extreme as 'which club do you support' in that area sometimes actually meaning 'which religion are you.' obviously there are people who like those groups for more innocuous reasons but generally if someone is really really obsessed with one of them it's another religious thing

#OTD in 1887 – Celtic Football Club was born in Glasgow.

A meeting in the church hall of St Mary’s parish in East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton, Glasgow, established by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, and while those present would have harboured well-intentioned ambitions for the new sporting organisation, none of them could ever have imagined that Celtic would go on to become one of the most famous names in world football. Brother Walfrid of…

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2023/24 SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP MATCH DAY 36

Celtic 2-1 Rangers 11th May 2024 Celtic Park

O'Riley (35'), Lundstram (38' OG) Dessers (40'), Lundstram (45+2' sent off)

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Love Unites | Celtic x adidas football

Inspired by football. Standing for Pride, the adidas Celtic Love collection is part of a House of Tiro x Pride collection, in collaboration with Sydney-based artist Kris Andrew Small, featuring vibrant colours and prints from his iconic, protest art-inspired designs.

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Where Celtic and Rangers rank in the top 10 most successful clubs in world football - Football Scotland

The Glasgow rivals hold the joint record the most decorated clubs in Europe with 118 trophies each — Read on www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/gallery/celtic-rangers-rank-top-10-29246863

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