Celtic FC · Oct 12, 2021

Let there be light as Paradise emerges from the dark ages

It was on this day (or night to be precise), 62 years ago on October 12, 1959 that modern-day floodlights were used at Celtic Park for the first occasion just in time to hansel the club’s continental age of enlightenment the following decade. It’s amazing now to think that such an iconic part of Celtic’s history and an endearing embodiment of classic European nights were actually only around for about 35 years before the old stadium was brought crashing to ground...