Tom Boyd finally arrived at Celtic Park in a swap move as Tony Cascarino headed back south to Chelsea, with the Scotland internationalist arguably one of the real steals of Celtic’s history.

Boyd went onto to captain the club with his era spanning the dark and lean years in the mid-90s to the Treble winning days of Martin O’Neill’s era at the club when he became only the second Celtic skipper to achieve that feat.

Still at Celtic in an ambassadorial role, Boyd won three league titles with Celtic, three League Cups and two Scottish Cups. He made 364 appearances in total for the Parkhead side and was one of a rare breed who was afforded the opportunity to play for the club he supported.

Celtic 2 Airdrie 0, February 1992.

I consider myself fortunate to have played in some amazing games for Celtic but I have to say that one of the biggest thrills I ever had in my professional career was pulling on the Hoops professionally for the first time.

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I made my debut at Celtic Park against Airdrie in a game that was fairly uneventful – I think Gerry Creaney scored twice to give us a routine 2-0 win – but it was just an amazing feeling to know that I had finally made it to Celtic Park.

All I ever wanted growing up was to be a football and play for Celtic. Running out that day with my family in friends in the stand, being in the dressing room among players that I knew and I really did feel as though I settled in immediately.

I had waited a long time to get to Celtic and the high of performing at Celtic Park was an amazing feeling. It was never a classic game or anything like that and I would go on to know some terrible lows as well as some amazing highs but that day is something that I always cherish.

My family were so proud to see me out there and it just felt very special. I actually don’t remember too much about the game itself apart from one run down the flank and a cross that could have led to Gerry getting a hat-trick but I do recall feeling that it was a long way to run back!

Celtic 2 St Johnstone 0, May 1998.

One of the real special times for me as a Celtic player was winning the 1995 Scottish Cup final because it was the first trophy we had won for such a long time and it was Paul McStay’s first as captain. But I don’t think anything eclipses winning the title in 1998 on the last day of the season and stopping ten-in-a-row.

It was such a unique season and the pressure was absolutely huge. Having been at the club throughout many of the Rangers’ 9-in-a-row years, I always felt a particular pressure and that season seemed to see-saw in favour of one of the other throughout the campaign. When we finally managed to cross the line and win the title, the first for a decade, the feeling was honestly indescribable. There was so much emotion.

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There was joy and relief and I knew what it meant not just to us as players but to our supporters because I had lived through every season of disappointment. I don’t think you can overplay just how vital that season was to the history of the club and we all felt a sense of responsibility that we had to stop Rangers winning a tenth consecutive title.

There was lots going on around the club at the time and Wim Jansen left almost immediately but for that moment and that day, there was nothing to beat it. Getting my hands on that trophy for the first time and lifting it felt sensational.

Celtic 2 Rangers 0, January 1998

I enjoyed a lot of games against Rangers and in many ways I think you could list any game you came out of that on the winning side as one of your favourites.

But to be honest that game is a real stand out to me. If we had lost going into it then Rangers would have opened up a seven point lead and we knew that we just couldn’t afford for that to happen. The goals were special – Craig Burley scored and Paul Lambert scored his first goal for us with an absolute peach – but the whole performance told me that we were going to win the league.

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For so long and for so many seasons I had been at Celtic when we were trailing in Rangers’ wake with the Ibrox side always a step ahead in the transfer market and always spending money. We had beat them in one off games and in finals but that day at Celtic Park it felt very different.

There was just a belief about us that we were better and that we were capable of going out and proving it. Psychologically I would say it was arguably one of the most important games I was ever part of for Celtic because it was key to us going on and winning the league that year.

That victory was obviously crucial to that but it was the performance itself than showed us a team that we were going all the way. Rangers still had Brian Laudrup and Paul Gascoigne in there, players with real quality, but just sensed that we had the edge and being able to turn in on a fixture like when under real pressure gave us a real edge.