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Recent Scottish Cup visits to Celtic Park from Greenock Morton and Buckie Thistle…

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Leigh Griffiths celebrates. Celtic 4-0 Motherwell. 21 January 2015. Photo Geo at Big Lens

21 January 2015

Celtic 4-0 Motherwell. A minute’s applause was held prior to the game in memory of Martin ‘Kano’ Kane from the Kano Foundation who had sadly passed away. The convincing victory for Ronny Deila’s men reasserted Celtic in the title race moving one point ahead of Aberdeen with a game in hand. Van Dijk, Griffiths and a rare Lustig brace were on hand to seal the Hoops a much-needed three points. Worryingly for Motherwell, relegation looked a serious threat. Indeed, the 2015-2016 Scottish Premiership relegation playoff would provide much hilarity for both Celtic and the Steelmen (please note date in video below is incorrect).

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21 January 2023

Celtic v Greenock Morton – Aaron Mooy celebrates scoring Celtic’s fifth goal during the Scottish Cup fourth round match at Celtic Park, Saturday January 21, 2023. Photo Jane Barlow

Celtic 5-0 Greenock Morton. Kyogo’s double saw the Japanese forward hit the 20-goal mark across all competitions for season 2022/2023. Aaron Mooy also netted a double with David Turnbull scoring spectacularly. The opening goal in the game came courtesy of an incredibly harsh penalty decision against former Hoops defender Efe Ambrose. VAR in Scotland could not quite get to grips with the handball law since its introduction in the Scottish game since October. That same weekend, Darvel produced the biggest upset in 149 years of the Scottish Cup as the sixth-tier outfit defeated Aberdeen 1-0 in Ayrshire.

21 January 2024

Kyogo Furuhashi celebrates scoring his team’s third goal during the the Celtic v Buckie Thistle – Scottish Cup match at Celtic Park on January 21, 2024. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Celtic 5-0 Buckie Thistle. Brendan Rodgers maintained his 100% record in the Scottish Cup with his easiest win as Celtic manager over his two spells. The Highland League side travelled to Celtic Park from the north-east in their numbers with 2500 cheering their local team on. They held the reigning Scottish Cup holders out for 25 minutes before the floodgates opened. Paulo Bernardo, Odin Thiago Holm and Kyogo made it three before the interval. It was Holm’s first and only ever goal in a Celtic jersey. Luis Palma and Rocco Vata scored number four and five in the second-half. Post-match Brendan Rodgers said, “it was good for both teams. The players continued where they left off before the break. The intensity was good. We scored some very good goals and just were offside in a few more.”

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The late, great Celtic Historian David Potter’s Celtic Diary each morning on The Celtic Star looked back at key Celtic events and matches on this day starting on 21st January 1922…

Tommy McInally scored

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 1922 – Celtic have a good win today at Celtic Park when they beat Aberdeen 2-0 with a degree of ease, the goals coming in the first half from Tommy McInally and “Jean” McFarlane. Rangers could only draw at Hamilton, so Celtic and Rangers are now tied at the top. In the meantime, concern is expressed about the condition of Pope Benedict XV, and the other item in the news is the arrival of Michael Collins in London to negotiate the transfer of power from Whitehall to the Irish Free State.

Hugh O’Donnell scored a hat-trick

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 1933 – In the Scottish Cup travel to East End Park, Dunfermline to dish out a 7-1 hammering to the Second Division Pars who already in 1933 “enjoy” that nickname, which is apparently short for “paralytics”. Jimmy McGrory and Hugh O’Donnell both score hat-tricks and Bertie Thomson scores the other.

Malky MacDonald scored a hat-trick

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 1939 – Kirkton Park, Burntisland is the unlikely venue for Celtic in the Scottish Cup, for they play against Burntisland Shipyard. Celtic, in the middle of a terrible run in which they have lost four of their last five League games, struggle as the amateurs match them goal for goal until with the score at 4-3 Celtic at long last take a grip on proceedings and finish the game 8-3 winners. Malky MacDonald scores a hat-trick, Johnny Crum two, and John Watters, Jimmy Delaney and Frank Murphy one each. The game is much enjoyed and much remembered in Fife.

Willie Wallace scored

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 1967 – “Efficient rather than spectacular” was the way that this one was described as Celtic beat Hibs 2-0 at Parkhead with goals from Steve Chalmers and Willie Wallace. Willie Wallace’s goal was a brilliant one, and this result over a team that could have been a challenger for the League title means that Celtic are now five points clear of Rangers, although the Ibrox men have a game in hand.

SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 1995 – Poor Celtic simply cannot get out of the bit these days. Today sees their fourth goalless draw of the season as, even with new signing Pierre van Hooijdonk on board, they cannot score against Partick Thistle at Firhill before a crowd of 11,000. Disorientated by not having a home (Parkhead is being rebuilt) and still recovering from their dreadful League Cup final loss to Raith Rovers, Celtic are going through a very dark time in their history.

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