The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic Diary each morning on The Celtic Star looks back at key Celtic events and matches on this day starting on 28th April 1909…
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WEDNESDAY 28th APRIL 1909 – Celtic are now within one victory of the Scottish League Championship. Today at Cathkin Park (Hampden still lies in ruins after the riot) Celtic beat Queen’s Park 5-0 with a hat-trick from Jimmy Quinn and two goals from Davie McLean. Celtic supporters celebrate in the rain (which came on near the end) as if the League is already theirs, but there were still two games to go, one at Easter Road and the other at Douglas Park, Hamilton.
MONDAY 28th APRIL 1919 – A very tight game at Tynecastle this Edinburgh Holiday Monday, but the result puts Celtic to the top of the League with only one game to go – at Somerset Park a week come Saturday after the Victory International this weekend. Snow has been cleared off the pitch, and the pitch is in good condition. Celtic look on easy street with a 3-0 lead, (two from Jimmy McColl and one from Andy McAtee) but then Andy Wilson, a Scottish Internationalist, scores twice for Hearts in the latter stages, and Shaw, McNair and Dodds have to defend desperately. In spite of the Spanish flu pandemic, a crowd of 15,000 see a good game.
WEDNESDAY 28th APRIL 1965 – Normally a 1-5 defeat would lead to anguish and gnashing of teeth, but not this one. It came on the back of the Scottish Cup victory and it was on the ground of the same opponents,
