Celtic’s first of 41 trophies this Century opened the floodgates

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·19 March 2025

Celtic’s first of 41 trophies this Century opened the floodgates

The first trophy of a staggering honour tally this century was started a quarter of a century ago today. We are without a doubt Scotland’s premier club. No other club, dead or alive, comes close…

Jackie McNamara and Johan Mjällby lift the League Cup 25 years ago today to proclaim Celtic’s first 21st Century triumph. Photo The Celtic Wiki

How time flies

How time flies! 25 years ago today Celtic lifted the League Cup at Hampden Park following a 2-0 victory over Aberdeen thanks to goals from Vidar Riseth and Tommy Johnson.

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It was a frustrating season of mostly doom, gloom and constant uncertainty due to the diabolical reign of John Barnes who was dismissed the month prior when the disastrous Scottish Cup home defeat to Inverness Caley Thistle proved to be the tipping point in his short unconvincing spell in charge.

Barnes’ mentor and Celtic legend Kenny Dalglish took temporary charge and steered the Hoops to this Hampden success and at least gave us something to celebrate in an otherwise bleak campaign.

Morten Wierhorst jumps on Tom Boyd as Kenny Dalglish looks on after the League Cup win 25 years ago today to proclaim Celtic’s first 21st Century triumph. Photo The Celtic Wiki

Celtic’s first honour of the 21st century

It was the club’s first honour of the new century, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. That trophy would prove to be the first of a staggering 41 honours won by the club this century. A century that’s only in its first quarter. Nine championships in a row, six trebles, four in succession, are just some of the impressive feats achieved by our ‘fairytale’ football club.

Achieved with cheating, dodgy tax schemes, hidden side letters and stiffing creditors

Apologies in advance, we're about to try and thread all the EBT Bubblegum cards, so that we can show the scale of the cheating carried out by Rangers and ignored by the SFA.
– Sunday, 25 March 2018

‘Over 60 players managers directors and ex managers getting tax free money to gain a sporting advantage over every other member team and no one wants to know about it. Disgraceful attitude from any governing body not to want this looked into.’

We are the peepaul Ally McCoist defended the fraudulent ebt remuneration scam. He let Rangers football klub and company die. https://t.co/M2EEJr7i8a
– Saturday, 15 June 2024

It was all achieved without resorting to dodgy side-letters with unaffordable players, crooked boardroom antics, unlawful tax scams and stiffing creditors for up to £100m from a face-painter and the local newsagent to HMRC.

And had Scottish football authorities followed their own rules Celtic’s trophy haul would have been higher along with numerous other clubs cheated by Rangers FC, now liquidated. It’s remarkable that they still regard themselves as Rangers FC but want nothing to do with those unpaid debts.

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Henrik Larsson scores for Celtic in Seville. Photo Celtic FC

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