{"id":13680,"date":"2026-04-23T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:09:32","slug":"james-forrest-signs-on-for-18th-season-at-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13680","title":{"rendered":"James Forrest signs on for 18th season at Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forrest has spent more than two decades of his 34 years on Celtic&#8217;s books, with the Parkhead club having beaten rivals Rangers to his signature as a youth player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has gone on to become Celtic&#8217;s most decorated player with 26 trophies, which is one more than Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox and two clear of current captain Callum McGregor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been plenty of goals alongside the silverware and Forrest has netted in all 17 seasons so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incredible streak began in May 2010 when the winger &#8211; then a fresh-faced 20-year-old &#8211; marked his Celtic debut by flicking in the third goal of a 4-0 win over Motherwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His latest goal came 15-and-a-half years later with a sidefoot finish to complete a 3-1 victory over Aberdeen last December as Wilfried Nancy got what would be the first of only two wins during his shambolic reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was the 110th goal of Forrest&#8217;s Celtic career and his impressive, game-changing Scottish Cup semi-final cameo against St Mirren last weekend was his 564th appearance for the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In setting up Kelechi Iheanacho&#8217;s extra-time effort, Forrest took his assists haul to 112.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scotland international has started 369 Celtic games and appeared as a substitute 195 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forrest&#8217;s most fruitful scoring seasons came in consecutive treble-winning campaigns, netting 17 goals in both 2017-18 and 2018-19. He almost made it three in a row, scoring 16 times the following campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His strike this season moved him above Paul McStay and Jimmy McGrory (both 16) and level with Bobby Lennox on 17 successive seasons of scoring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only player in Celtic history with a better record is Jimmy McMenemy, who netted in 18 straight campaigns from 1902. Forrest will have that target in his sights next term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrest has spent more than two decades of his 34 years on Celtic&#8217;s books, with the Parkhead club having beaten rivals Rangers to his signature as a youth player. He has gone on to become Celtic&#8217;s most decorated player with 26 trophies, which is one more than Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox and two clear of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}