CELTIC’S glorious history is packed with dramatic, historic, memorable triumphs.
There is the ground-breaking European Cup Final success in Lisbon on May 25 1967, for a start, but, in another CQN EXCLUSIVE SERIES, we are looking through the annuals of fame for other vitally-important outcomes.
This is the first of ten classic results that have been crucial to the club.
Please enjoy!
HIBS 0 CELTIC 3 April 17 1954
JOCK STEIN was Celtic’s centre-half on the afternoon the team were acclaimed as Scotland’s champions following a comprehensive three-goal triumph at Easter Road.
The victory was crucial to the club in so many ways, not least that it brought to a halt the team’s sixteen agonising years in the championship wilderness with the previous success back in 1938.
Admittedly, seven seasons had been wiped out during the war years, the league campaigns between 1939/40 and 1945/46, but, even taking that into consideration, Celtic had been cast among the also-rans for far too long.
CAPITAL PERFORMANCE…Neilly Mochan (half-hidden) fires one of his double to leave Hibs keeper Tommy Younger helpless as Celtic seal the 1954 title, their first in 16 years.
Stein, ungainly but effective, kept the Hibs forwards in check while club stalwart Neilly Mochan fired in a double and John Higgins, who had made his debut only six months earlier, claimed the other goal.
The redoubtable Sean Fallon was another hero on the day Celtic returned to the domestic pinnacle.
Remarkably, it would be exactly twelve years and twenty days before Stein, Fallon and Mochan would get their hands on the trophy again.
*TOMORROW: Don’t miss CLASSIC CELTIC: Part Two – only in your champion CQN.
