CELTIC have posted a series of pictures to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their famous huddle.

The first ever Celtic huddle took place on July 23 1995 when the Hoops went up against Kickers Emden in a pre-season friendly in Germany.

Tony Mowbray skippered the side that day in the absence of the injured Paul McStay, and he came up with the idea as an indication of togetherness by the players.

Speaking previously about his creation, Mowbray said: he said: “Every player likes to leave something that people can remember them by and maybe the Huddle is mine at Celtic.

“I’m delighted to see it’s still going strong, because it’s a brilliant way of uniting the players and the fans. It’s in the fabric of Celtic now.”

The huddle has become an integral part of Celtic’s identity and teams of all ages at the club complete the tradition before every match.

Celtic posted a number of pictures of the famous ritual on their Twitter and fans were quick to hail the post.

One wrote: "Blows my mind a bit, that. Feel like it's always been there. That said, I was 9 so."

Another posted: "Hail hail for the huddle."

A third said: "Respect to Tony Mowbray for creating it."

And a fourth tweeted: "Happy birthday Mr Huddle."