October 19 1957: Celtic 7-1 Rangers

I wasn't actually at this match, but I include it among my favourites because of the TV farce and subsequent conspiracy theory it spawned.

Celtic, 7-1 winners, were a mere 2-0 up at half-time, before their second half rout did for Rangers. Around Britain, though, later that evening it was explained to perplexed viewers that none of Celtic's five second half goals could be shown, due to an editing cock-up at the BBC's Lime Grove in London. A producer had "left a lens cap on" and thus erased the second 45 minutes of the match.

A few suspicious Celtic fans have viewed the incident as yet another establishment crime against their club. Poor Billy McPhail, the young Celtic striker, never got to see again his second-half hat-trick.

*Some flickery footage did eventually reappear of this match.

November 6 1976: Aberdeen 2-1 Celtic

"Ally MacLeod," said Chris Anderson, the late Aberdeen director, "arrived at Pittodrie with something of the Barnum about him". This was one of MacLeod's best days with the Dons, and proof, as if we needed reminding, that Aberdeen did actually have some great times prior to the arrival of Alex Ferguson.

The match had the lot. Bobby Clark was in goal. A young Willie Miller could be seen taking the referee, John Paterson, to task. Jocky Scott, Joe Harper and Arthur Graham all played. And the Dons wore that funny vertical white stripe running down their left side.

Plus, even better, Davie Robb scored Aberdeen's winner.

December 9 1972: Hibernian 2-1 Celtic

"This is a tremendous game!" bellowed Arthur Montford. Try watching this match again (as I have) on the old reel-to-reel: it is one of the finest Scottish football finals, involving two of Scotland's greatest managers, and two teams strewn with skill.

Eddie Turnbull's great Hibs side came a cropper a few times against Celtic, but not in December 1972. With Pat Stanton imperious, and Alex Edwards floating lovely, wafting passes all over the park, the Edinburgh team won it thanks to goals from Stanton and Jim O'Rourke.

At the finish Stanton brought his Hibs players back onto the park and they charged over to the old covered Hampden terracing, where 30,000 Hibs fans awaited them.

I've said it before: played in 1972, this game resembles a match from at least 25 years later, with its brand of skill, pace and game-intelligence.

December 12 1979: Dundee United 3-0 Aberdeen

This replay win for Dundee United was memorable for many things. Jim McLean was still knitting together his best United side, but in Paul Hegarty, David Narey, Eamonn Bannon and Paul Sturrock, the future, great United team of the 1980s was there in the making.

Alex Ferguson, relatively new to the Aberdeen job, had greatness ahead of him, but a bulging Dens Park housed 29,000 fans and saw Willie Pettigrew strike twice as the Dons were put to the sword.

Afterwards, lifting the trophy filled with champagne live on television, the Brethren-reared McLean looked at the camera and said "look away now, mother" before taking a sip. A few months later McLean and Pettigrew were at loggerheads.

October 28 1984: Rangers 1-0 Dundee United

When you look at the quality of the Dundee United side that day at Hampden - all the names are there - this was an impressive victory for an unlauded Rangers team. Back under the watch of Jock Wallace, Iain Ferguson struck just before half-time for the game's solitary goal.

To this day I tease Craig Paterson about this. The Rangers captain that day - and now a BBC Scotland pundit - a mud-spattered Paterson clutched the trophy while being interviewed on TV and then departed his interviewer by saying: "Now, what the bears want, the bears are going to get…"

December 15 1973: Dundee 1-0 Celtic

A memorably miserable day, during a miserable time for disjointed Britain, just makes this game all the more nostalgic to recall.

Edward Heath was Prime Minister at the time, but his Industrial Relations Act of 1971 was proving calamitous, with power cuts and miners' strikes and three-day weeks going on everywhere. The game actually kicked-off at 1.30pm to make the most of the winter daylight and save the Hampden floodlight generators.

Photographs show the rain-lashed 27,000 crowd huddled under shelter beneath the old North Stand while the great Gordon Wallace struck Dundee's late winner.

October 23 1971: Partick Thistle 4-1 Celtic

Without doubt one of the most freakish matches in the history of Scottish football. Thistle had just come up from the Second Division, while Jock Stein's Celtic were everything that it said on the tin. Yet Thistle went 4-0 up inside 37 minutes on an afternoon when people were querying if the Grandstand teleprinter was functioning properly.

In fact, Thistle that day had players that went on to various greater things: Alan Rough, Alex Forsyth, Ronnie Glavin, Jimmy Bone and more. Evan Williams, the Celtic goalie who seemed somewhat static for at least two of Thistle's goals, received his customary blast from the critics.

March 17 2013: St Mirren 3-2 Heart of Midlothian

This game ranks among the best, simply because human decency decrees it: who doesn't have a heart for the long-suffering 'Buddies' who support their Paisley bianconeri through thin and thin?

The St Mirren players saw off Hearts and then appeared to go on a 24-hour carousel around the town, with Steven Thompson leading the way with his guitar. As can only happen in football, calamity and opprobrium soon followed for Danny Lennon and Tommy Craig.

November 24 1996: Rangers 4-3 Heart of Midlothian

This was a great game, and a funny memory, due to something Walter Smith said. Rangers, replete with Paul Gascoigne and Brian Laudrup, were cruising at 2-0 before Hearts pegged it back to 2-2, with Neil McCann a dervish on the wing.

Gascoigne scored two goals in two minutes to make it 4-2 before Davie Weir got a late third for Hearts.

The match was played at Celtic Park, due to Hampden's reconstruction, and Smith arrived after the game to be met - according to him - by a somewhat sombre press crew. "Has someone died?" the Rangers manager whispered as he entered the room.

November 27 1994: Raith Rovers 2-2 Celtic (Raith win 6-5 on pens)

Never to be forgotten. Grown men from Kirkcaldy were greetin' in the Ibrox stands…and one or two even in the pressbox.

Charlie Nicholas had put Celtic 2-1 ahead with six minutes remaining before Gordon 'Dazzler' Dalziel stole an unlikely equaliser two minutes later. The subsequent penalty shoot-out was a disaster for Paul McStay and duly immortalised Jimmy Nicholl and Raith Rovers.