The M&S Celtic v Aberdeen encounter

Andrew H on the history making game against Aberdeen

An M&S-style footballing skirmish awaits us in the east end of Glasgow tomorrow afternoon. All because - cue a jazzy, loungey, mellifluous slice of music - this is no ordinary Celtic v Aberdeen league game in the offing.

The two clubs have slugged it out for titles in the past, sharing all but one of those dished out in the first half of the 1980s. And in the last decade, Aberdeen were Celtic’s closest - though, in truth, mostly not very close - challenger through finishing top flight runners-up across four consecutive seasons as their Glasgow rivals raced towards a second nine-in-a-row.

Never, though, have the two clubs met with a fifth of the championship contested, and the pair boasting 100% records as a consequence of winning their first six league games. To put pole position on the line, no less. A very similar situation did emerge in 2015-16. Then the teams met around this point, with Aberdeen on a run of five straight victories and Celtic having won five and drew one of what was a six-game stretch. Only for Aberdeen to record a 2-1 win over Ronnie Deila’s side, and then set a club record for straight victories from the start of a top flight campaign by racking up another two. Before they took the most almighty tumble as a result of claiming only one point from the 15 up for grabs in the five games that followed.