Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2016–17 season was the 123rd season of competitive football by Celtic. They competed in the Scottish Premiership , Champions League , League Cup and Scottish Cup . They won all three domestic tournaments, completing a domestic treble (the 11th in Scottish football), while going undefeated in 47 domestic games.
Tricephalic head found at Roquepertuse, a major Celtic religious centre dated to the 3rd century BC The three faced Corleck Head, Irish, 1st century AD. Celtic stone idols are Northern European stone sculptures dated to the Iron Age, that are believed to represent Celtic gods. The majority contain one or more human heads, which may have one or ...
This page was last edited on 25 November 2024, at 02:25 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Paul Wilson (23 November 1950 – 18 September 2017) was a professional footballer, who played as a forward for Celtic, Motherwell and Partick Thistle.His football career peaked in season 1974–75 after being moved to play as a striker when he scored 29 goals for Celtic, including two in that season's Scottish Cup final win.
Celtic's first ever silverware was won in 1889 when they defeated Cowlairs 6–1 in the final of the North-Eastern Cup. [1] A year later they won the Glasgow Cup, before winning their first major national honour in 1892 by defeating Queen's Park 5–1 in the final of the Scottish Cup. [1] Celtic won their first league title in 1892–93. [1]
The Corleck Head is widely considered the finest of the Celtic stone idols, largely due to its contrasting simplicity of design and complexity of expression. [ 29 ] [ 3 ] In 1962 the archaeologist Thomas G. F. Paterson wrote that only the triple-head idol found in Cortynan, County Armagh , shares features drawn from such bare outlines.
Billy McNeill has made the most appearances for Celtic in major competitions, and also captained the side from 1963 up to his retirement from playing in 1975. McNeill went on to manage Celtic in two spells during the 1980s. Celtic Football Club (/ ˈ s ɛ l t ɪ k /) is a Scottish professional football club based in Parkhead, Glasgow.
The Bank of Scotland informed Celtic on 3 March 1994 that it was calling in receivers as a result of the club exceeding a £5 million overdraft. [1] Expatriate businessman Fergus McCann, however, wrested control of the club from the family dynasties which had controlled Celtic since its founding, [1] purchasing the club for a reported £9 million. [2]