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title: "Celtic: Fans praise John Hartson’s long-range strike against Liverpool"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/celtic-fans-praise-john-hartsons-long-range-strike-against-liverpool/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Uways Nisar"
section: "SPFL News"
published: "2020-03-18T20:05:37Z"
modified: "2020-03-18T20:05:37Z"
---

# Celtic: Fans praise John Hartson’s long-range strike against Liverpool

**Celtic fans were praising a strike by former player John Hartson in the Hoops’ famous win over Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.**

Back during the 2002/2003 season, the Celtic Park outfit [defeated the Merseysiders 2-0](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/mar/20/minutebyminute.sport) in the second-leg of their European tie with the Welshman settling the game in fine fashion. After receiving the ball outside the box, the retired forward side-stepped Dietmar Hamann before unleashing an unstoppable strike into the top-right corner [(via EuropeanGoals)](https://twitter.com/ThrowbackUefa/status/1029510436343963648).

One fan labelled the strike a ‘peach’.

> Peach
>
> — Padro Pez (@padro\_pez) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/padro_pez/status/1240213184826482694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

It was just one goal during what proved to be a miserable season for the Glasgow outfit as they went on to finish as runners-up in three separate competitions. Having already [finished second in the league](https://stats.football.co.uk/league_tables/2002_2003/scottish_premier/index.shtml) to their arch-rivals and lost to them in the [Scottish League Cup final](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/john-hartson-goal-wrongly-disallowed-5559395), Celtic went on to lose against Porto in the final of [Europe’s second-tier competition](https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/3043029.stm). Supporters lauded the strike by one of their former players as they took to Twitter to react. Here are some tweets:

> Yaass brilliant… Check all the Celtic fans in home end behind goal bouncing up👏magic🍀
>
> — Run the show (@iRuntheshow1) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/iRuntheshow1/status/1240214097662263299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [@JohnHartson10](https://twitter.com/JohnHartson10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) you legend! Ones of my favourite goals of all time. Top 3 for sure.
>
> — Jord (@JD\_Hepe) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/JD_Hepe/status/1240223854557040640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> That rattled the net and 2 mins later we’ve booked a week in Portugal for the final. Knew we were going all the way….brilliant times, briliant memories!!
>
> — Gman 2112 (@Gman1424) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/Gman1424/status/1240219950582771713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [@DrifeFinlay](https://twitter.com/DrifeFinlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) glory days
>
> — rossloc40 (@rossloc40) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/rossloc40/status/1240219796412784641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> What a night that was, was that [@Carra23](https://twitter.com/Carra23?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) that bought big [@JohnHartson10](https://twitter.com/JohnHartson10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) dummy
>
> — Gary (@GaryD84) [March 18, 2020](https://twitter.com/GaryD84/status/1240217460793577472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Celtic fans, is this one of your all-time favourite goals? Join the discussion below!***