AND IN THE BIG BAD WORLD...
On this day in 1938, Chester Carlson
made the first xerographic image
(Xerox copy to you and me) in his lab in
Astoria, Queens, in New York City - so,
was this the original, or a copy?
ONE of the great Celtic legends of modern times was born on this day
in 1964 when Paul Michael Lyons McStay took his first breath, McStay
came from a family lineage that was etched in green and white in the
club history books thanks to great uncles Jimmy and Willie, who served
the club with honour from just after the First World War through to
the '40s and beyond. Older brother Willie was already toddling about
with a ball at his feet by the time Paul arrived and both would go on to
join the Celts with younger brother Raymond also signing on for the
Hoops. It was Paul, though, who was to become known as the Maestro
and, after bursting on to the scene as a teenager, he would emerge
to be one of the significant figures of the 1980s and the captain who
held the team together in the early '90s, Paul McStay was a true Celtic
legend and his 72 goals in 677 games only tell half the story of a player
who is second only to Billy McNeill in the number of appearances for
the Hoops - and, like Cesar, a one-club man,
ON this day in 1975 in Oporto, Celtic, wearing their change strip
of yellow with green trims and shorts, drew 0-0 with Boavista in
what was the precursor to the side having, thanks to a UEFA edict,
a number on the Hoops for the very first time, An injury to Kenny
Dalglish dictated a defensive display from the Celts in front of a
25,000 crown in Portugal, but the 0-0 draw was enough to tee them
up for a 3-1 win with numbers on the Hoops in the next leg to put
them through to the European Cup-Winners' Cup quarter-finals,
THE aforementioned Paul McStay didn't have
the best of 27th birthdays when the side fell
to their worst ever European result as they
took on Swiss unknowns Neuchatel Xamax, All
Celtic had to show for their efforts was a Brian
O'Neil goal in a 5-1 defeat that shocked everyone
connected with the club. After disposing
Germinal Ekeren of Belgium 3-1 on aggregate in
the previous round of the UEFA Cup, a similar
scoreline shouldn't have been too much to ask
against the Swiss but everything wasn't alright
on the night, There was genuine belief that
Celtic could overturn the scoreline in the return
leg, but a missed early penalty sucked the breath
from any hope and a Joe Miller goal was the only
counter of the game,
Celtic's most recent action on this day came four
years ago in Europe when they faced Bundesliga
side Hamburg in the UEFA Europa League,
Marcus Berg scored the only goal of the game
on 63 minutes to give the Germans a 1-0 victory,
Scott Brown started that game while Georgios
Samaras came on as a substitute just after the
hour mark, The only other player from that team
still at Celtic is Lukasz Zaluska, who was on the
bench that night,
1964
1975
1991
