Sunday 8 June 2008

Celtic's 100 Greatest Games

Nostalgia TV programmes are all the rage, but the best ones have all been done and now the likes of Channel 5 are really scraping the barrel with things like '100 Greatest TV Weather Forecasts' and 'I Loved Last Week'.

Well, I say all the best ones have been done... except for the 100 greatest Celtic games, therefore I have drawn up the list.

I haven't actually put it on order, apart from the top two the rest are as they came from memory or in the order I found them in my if you know the history book (Leeds Utd games and Rangers 4-0 in '69 are just two that should be much higher).

Actually, a more appropriate title for this post would be 'Celtic's 100 Greatest Games according to a 30-something fan's memory and snippets he might have seen on TV or read about'.

I have a natural bias towards 1980 to the present, so comments would be welcome from fans with... ahem... longer memories.

1. Celtic 2-1 Inter Milan 25/05/67
2. Celtic 7-1 Rangers 19/10/57
3. Celtic 6-2 Rangers 27/08/00
4. Liverpool 0-2 Celtic 20/03/03
5. Blackburn 0-2 Celtic 14/11/02
6. Celtic 1-0 Manchester Utd 21/11/06
7. Celtic 2-1 AC Milan 03/10/07
8. Celtic 4-3 Juventus 31/10/01
9. Celtic 1-0 Barcelona 11/03/04
10. Barcelona 0-0 Celtic 25/03/04
11. Boavista 0-1 Celtic 24/04/03
12. Celtic 5-0 Sporting Lison 02/11/83
13. Celtic 3-0 FC Cologne 30/09/92
14. Celtic 6-3 FC Tirol Innsbruck 26/08/97
15. Ajax 1-3 Celtic 08/08/01
16. Ajax 1-2 Celtic 29/09/82
17. Celtic 2-0 Real Madrid 05/03/80
18. Celtic 1-0 Juventus 16/09/81
19. Celtic 2-1 Leeds Utd 15/04/70
20. Leeds Utd 0-1 Celtic 01/04/70
21. Real Madrid 0-1 Celtic 07/06/67 [Alfredo Di Stefano testimonial]
22. Celtic 3-0 Benfica 17/10/06
23. Celtic 3-0 Benfica 12/11/69
24. Celtic 3-0 Fiorentina 04/03/70
25. Celtic 5-1 Red Star Belgrade 13/11/68
26. Celtic 4-0 St. Ettiene 02/10/68
27. Celtic 2-0 Vojvodina 08/03/67
28. Dukla Prague 0-0 Celtic 25/04/67
29. Celtic 2-0 St.Johnstone 09/05/98
30. Celtic 2-1 Hearts 09/04/88
31. Celtic 2-1 Dundee Utd 14/05/88
32. Rangers 1-2 Celtic 20/03/88
33. St.Mirren 0-5 Celtic 03/05/86
34. Celtic 2-1 Dundee Utd 18/05/85
35. Rangers 0-3 Celtic 29/04/01
36. Celtic 3-0 Rangers 03/01/04
37. Celtic 1-0 Rangers 08/05/04 [Chris Sutton last minute winner completes whitewash]
38. Dundee Utd 1-2 Celtic 30/07/00 [MONs first league game, Henke's first start since his leg break and Sutton's first goal]
39. Celtic 6-1 Hearts 18/11/00
40. Celtic 5-1 Rangers 21/11/98
41. Celtic 4-2 Rangers 21/05/79
42. Celtic 11-0 Dundee 26/10/1895
43. Celtic 5-2 Rangers 28/05/1888
44. Celtic 1-0 Everton 10/06/38 [Empire Exhibition final]
45. Celtic 2-0 Hibernian 20/05/53 [Coronation Cup final]
46. Celtic 2-1 Manchester Utd 16/05/53
47. Celtic 1-0 Arsenal 11/05/53
48. Celtic 4-2 St.Johnstone 20/01/92 [tennent's sixes final!]
49. Rangers 2-4 Celtic 14/05/83
50. Celtic 7-0 Aberdeen 19/10/99
51. Celtic 5-1 Livingston 06/04/02
52. Celtic 1-0 Rangers 20/05/89
53. Celtic 2-0 Rangers 17/03/91
54. Celtic 3-0 Rangers 24/03/91
55. Celtic 2-0 Rangers 02/01/98
56. Celtic 2-0 Rangers 03/03/97
57. Celtic 2-1 Dundee Utd 10/03/96 [Scottish Cup - two goals in last minute]
58. Celtic 5-0 Aberdeen 01/04/96 [Cadete's debut]
59. Rangers 1-1 Celtic 30/04/94 [Collin's free-kick when Celtic fans banned from the Bigotdome]
60. Hamilton Accies 3-8 Celtic 03/01/87
61. Celtic 3-1 Rangers 12/11/89
62. Celtic 4-0 Rangers 26/04/69 [Scottish Cup Final]
63. Celtic 3-0 Motherwell 02/04/83 [my first game at Paradise]
64. Motherwell 0-1 Celtic 07/05/66 [clinched Celtic's first league title in umpteen years and qualification for the 1966/67 European Cup...]
65. Celtic 3-0 Rapid Vienna 07/11/84 [we destroyed the eventual runners up fairly and squarely although this result was tainted by subsequent cheating by the opposition]
66. Celtic 6-1 Clyde 01/05/71 [last time the 11 Lisbon Lions played together competitively]
67. Dunfermline 1-8 Celtic 19/02/06
68. Celtic 3-1 Dunfermline 22/05/04 [Henke's last competitive appearance]
69. Celtic 3-0 Hibernian 26/05/01
70. Celtic 2-1 Dundee Utd 16/05/04 [Henrik's last league game]
71. Porto 3-2 Celtic 21/05/03 [honourable defeat but the club's reputation enhanced]
72. Rangers 1-2 Celtic 27/04/03 [beachball Sunday]
73. Hearts 2-3 Celtic 01/01/06 [2 down and Hearts set to go within 1 point of us but instead Celtic go 7 points clear]
74. Celtic 2-1 Rangers 16/04/08
75. Celtic 3-2 Rangers 27/04/08
76. Celtic 1-0 Dundee Utd 22/05/08
77. Celtic 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk 28/11/07
78. Celtic 10-0 Hamilton Accies 11/09/68
79. Celtic 9-0 Airdrie 26/10/63
80. Celtic 3-2 Dunfermline 28/04/65 [Scottish Cup Final]
81. Celtic 1-1 Liverpool (Celtic win 4-2 on pens) 04/04/89 [Dubai Cup final between English and Scottish champions]
82. Celtic 1-1 Spartak Moscow (Celtic win 4-3 on pens)29/08/07 [Celtic's 1st ever European penalty shoot-out win]
83. Celtic 5-1 Queen's Park 09/04/1892 [Celtic's first ever trophy - Scottish Cup]
84. Celtic 3-1 Leith Athletic 09/05/1893 [Celtic clinch their first league title]
85. Celtic 2-1 Hamilton Accies 30/04/1909 [Celtic clinch the league having played their last 8 games in 11 days with no extension to the league programme asked for or given]
86. Celtic 2-0 Lyon 30/09/03
87. Celtic 3-1 Anderlecht 05/11/03
88. Celtic 4-0 Honved 05/10/88
89. Aberdeen 2-3 Celtic 10/09/95 [Celtic come back from 0-2 down in the 1st half]
90. Hearts 0-4 Celtic 23/09/95
91. Motherwell 1-7 Celtic 21/02/99
92. Hearts 2-5 Celtic (aet) 01/11/00
93. Hearts 1-4 Celtic 28/04/02 [Celtic's youth team hump Rangers Lite 4-1 in their own midden - scorers Maloney and Lynch 2 each]
94. Celtic 3-1 Dukla Prague 12/04/67
95. Celtic 3-0 Dinamo Kiev 12/01/66
96. Celtic 1-0 Liverpool 14/04/66
97. Celtic 3-0 MTK Budapest 15/04/64
98. Celtic 6-1 Hibernian 06/05/72 [Scottish Cup final]
99. Celtic 6-3 Hibernian 26/10/74 [League Cup final]
100.Celtic 2-1 Rangers 04/12/82 [League Cup final]

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