115 Scotland’s Most Successful club
Soccer Football - Scottish Cup Final - Celtic v Inverness Caledonian Thistle - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - June 3, 2023 Celtic fans celebrate after winning the Scottish Cup Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
With their eighth domestic treble completed Celtic became Scotland’s most successful club.
115 trophies won against the odds with almost as many denied by honest mistakes with today’s match officials trying their best to avoid being involved in the record breaking.
Twice in the build up to the second goal Celtic played on or took a quickly taken free kick following acts of brutality by Inverness Caley Thistle players.
For no obvious reason Steven McLean spent two minutes trying to find a reason to disallow Liel Abada’s front post strike- unlike in 2015 he had to admit defeat with the goal standing.
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— Steve (@QuestFor10IAR) June 3, 2023
A fifth treble in seven years saw Celtic edge one past the old Rangers club that went into liquidation on 2012- never to add to their ill-gotten gains.
The SFA and SPL refused to apply justice retrospectively for over a decade of fielding ineligible players. When Queens Park tried that in this season’s Scottish Cup their 2-0 victory was changed to 0-3 in the record books.
Celtic’s 100th honour was when they won the 2016 League Cup against Aberdeen, with 115 reached today the next milestone will be 120 with only a fool likely to bet against Callum McGregor having the armband that day.