CELTIC suffered the most humiliating result in the club’s history in this month 26 years ago when they lost 3-1 to Inverness Caley Thistle at Parkhead.

In another CQN EXCLUSIVE series, we look at the fall-out of the inexplicable Scottish Cup exit and examine the games that led up to the catastrophic result – and the welcome transformation that propelled Celtic into a new era.

Here is Part Three of edited extracts from Celtic author Alex Gordon’s tribute book, ‘The Winds of Change‘, which was published by CQN in 2015.

Please enjoy.

A TRULY astounding crowd of 60,253 turned out at Parkhead to witness the 3-0 victory over a St Johnstone team that had managed to beat Celtic three times the previous season.

Statisticians claimed it was the biggest attendance for a league fixture in a decade. The average football fan’s thirst for entertainment was always unquenchable and Barnes’ outfit were by far the biggest draw in town.

Once more, the game was just about done and dusted in the first half-hour. Johan Mjallby claimed a rare goal in only six minutes and Mark Viduka hit the second. Morten Wieghorst joined in with the third only...