Very occasionally, football headlines can be works of art. Scottish Sun readers were treated to such a masterpiece when flipping to the back page on the freezing, grey morning of February 9, 2000: “Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious!”
The -inspired quip – at best ‘borrowed’ from one that had appeared in in the 1970s about winger Ian Callaghan’s bravura display against QPR – related to a result so stunning, it remains one of the Scottish Cup’s biggest upsets. Second-tier Inverness Caledonian Thistle, founded just six years earlier, toppled the mighty Celtic 3-1 in the third round, in their own back yard.
