In Celtic's earliest days, long before the days of sports photography, newspapers would have to rely on the skill of an artist to try and capture the excitement and thrill of a football match.

Illustrators were often also used to make a topical or satirical point about a game, a player or a club. The financial benefits to both sides of the Celtic and Rangers rivalry was a popular source of satire. In most cases this was harmless stuff but in some early drawings depicting Celtic fans and players their were clear racial overtones - the immigrant Irish Celt portrayed as a befuddled ape like figure next to the aryan features of the upstanding Rangers representative of establishment Scotland.

In this section are some examples of all these early forms of media coverage of Celtic along with some latter day examples of topical Celtic cartoons and drawings.


Celtic Games

• 1889 Scottish Cup Final
• 1892 Scottish Cup Final
• Cup "Treble" 1892
• Rangers v Celtic (October 1898 - Glasgow Cup)
• 1904 Scottish Cup Final (Quinn's hat-trick)
• 1925 Scottish Cup Final
• World Club Championship 1967

The "Old Firm"

• Patronise The Old Firm
• Parting At The Bank
• League title - In The Balance
• National Crisis

Characters and Controversies

• Moneybags Maley

Racist Portrayals (Apes and Aryans)

• Snooker (Championship Race)
• St Mungo

Other Events

• Roseberry International (Celtic Park 1900)
• Annual Celtic Sports

21st Century pictures

• Photoshop pictures and cartoons