As 2024 comes to a close it is clearly a year that every Celtic supporter will look back on fondly.
All three domestic trophies were won over a 12 month period with the most recent success, in the League Cup Final hammering another nail into the toxic ‘Old Firm’ branding that legacy media outlets cling hopelessly onto.
Head to head comparisons between the two Glasgow clubs are becoming something of a rarity, the crutch that Ibrox fans clung onto was booted away at Hampden a fortnight ago, comparisons now are just too painful.
But not on social media, oh no. After a generation of nonsense over the self declared Most Successful Club in the World that and other claims are being thrown back with interest. No Celtic fan would dream of claiming that they are the most successful club in the world but they know which Scottish club has won the most trophies.
Only in the last few years has the trophy total since 1888 been on interest, a counter was never required previously but if the new-starts at Ibrox want to get mouthy there is only one way to reply.
Choose any metric you like and Celtic are superior to the combined efforts of both Ibrox clubs.
The one that fielded ineligible players for over a decade prior to liquidation followed by the 2012 Tribute Act unable to live up to the ill-gotten gains of their inspiration and now drowning under the wholly unrealistic demands and expectations of their deluded support.
It is FACTS! whatever way you wish to count them
The biggest most successful club in the country at every level.🍀 pic.twitter.com/YelTfG170s
— Billyballoonhead (@Billyballoonhe2) December 28, 2024
You could add the 1938 Empire Exhibition Trophy and 1953 Coronation Cup to that list, two officially sanctioned cross border competitions competed for by the top teams in Scotland and England.
Whichever way you look at it Celtic are by far the dominant force.
From the moment that Jock Stein took over as manager in 1965 to Daizen Maeda tucking away the decisive penalty in the recent League Cup Final Celtic have dominated every decade with the exception of the nineties, or The Asterisk Years as they are correctly referred to.
Ian Crocker and Sky Sports can dress up the derby match with the same tired cliches that they’ve been using for more than 20 years but there is no getting away from the FACTS above.
A generation of school children has grown up knowing nothing but Celtic success and domination, with every passing year that banner about Grandchildren gets closer to reality.
This season crowds are tumbling at Ibrox, parents are loathe to introduce their kids to the miseries of booing players off the park and trying to pretend that Connor Barron and Ross McCausland are the successors to Paul Gascoigne and Brian Laudrup.
The excitement of the journey to the top flight has been met by thumping disappointment, since 2016 Celtic have won 20 out of the 25 domestic trophies up for grabs.
Until 2001 Celtic fans had just three trebles to celebrate, the current generation of fans have had five in eight years to compare against, there is a better than 50-50 shout that a ninth treble will be celebrated at Hampden in May.
Brendan Rodgers is the architect of the current run of success, a manager with a 90% strike rate at winning trophies.
While he will be very satisfied by his contribution to the list above it is the next match, the next win and trophy that inspires him rather than the past. 2025 has all of the hallmarks of becoming yet another memorable year in the history of Scotland’s Most Successful Club.
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by TicToc
It’s been another great year for us Celtic supporters and I really enjoyed reading that article. Thank you.
For me though, the TRUTH of what really happened in 2012 when Rangers FC went into Liquidation and the FACT they’d cheated for years by playing ineligible players has to be addressed. It’s only what SHOULD have happened and what WOULD have happened had it been us that conned Scottish football with EBTs and the like with the nodding dogs at the SFA shepherding it all through with crass lies like “imperfect but eligible” used when ‘they’ should have been forfeiting all games played by a 0-3 official (by the laws of the game) scoreline. NEVER LET THEM FORGET THAT! FN SCUM!
On another note I’d like to wish yourself a very Happy New Year with many thanks for all you provide here and ‘in another place’ and to wish ALL Tims the world over the same.
Hail! Hail! The Glasgow Celtic, one special club for 136 years and (unlike a Glasgow rival) still going strong.