Celtic Football Club - The History

  THE BIRTH OF CELTIC

ON THE 6TH OF NOVEMBER 1887 AT A MEETING IN ST MARYS HALL
IN THE CALTON ,CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB WAS BORN.
THE MARIST BROTHER WALFRID FOUGHT HARD TO HAVE THE
THE NEW CLUB CALLED CELTIC.AGAINST THE COMMITTEE
WHO FAVOURED THE NAME GLASGOW HIBERNIANS
THANK GOD HE PREVAILED.

AFTER MONTHS OF HARD WORK,THE 16 MAN COMMITTEE HEADED
BY PRESIDENT JOHN GLASS, HON. PRESIDENT DR JOHN CONWAY,
TREASURER HUGH DARROCH, SECRETARY JOHN OHARA, AND
MATCH SECRETARY WILLIE MALEY, AND A HUGE VOLOUNTEER
WORKFORCE HAD EVERYTHING IN PLACE , AND SO IT WAS THAT
ON MONDAY 28TH MAY 1888 THE CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB
FORMED TO RAISE FUNDS TO HELP FEED THE CHILDREN OF THE
POOR IRISH CATHOLIC IMMIGRANTS WHO FLED FAMINE IN IRELAND
AND SETTLED IN THE EAST END OF GLASGOW TOOK THE FIELD
FOR ITS FIRST EVER MATCH.AS IT WAS THEY GUBBED THE R-----S
5 – 2 (SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE) THE REST AS THEY SAY
IS HISTORY

IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS WE WILL HIGHLIGHT THAT HISTORY
THROUGH THE YEARS UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY.
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RELIVING THE ACHIEVMENTS OF THE MOST FAMOUS FOOTBALL
CLUB IN THE WORLD