A Celtic Retrospective
In 1914, speculation that Celtic’s heroic striker, Jimmy Quinn from Croy, was to retire from football was rife. The ‘Glasgow Observer’ published this poem in honour of The Equator which…
One of the most public aspects of the ultra movement in football is the preponderance of stickers around the club’s ground and city. Celtic is no exception and in recent…
He had given Celtic the precious single-goal lead to take to Argentina in the away leg of the World Club Championship in 1967. He watched on as he and his…
“That week was an experience I’ll never forget. I saw Soviet tanks smash down arcades on the main square and bury several people in the rubble. I saw a tank…
Peter Johnstone, former miner and famed Celtic player who died in World War 1, is finally being commemorated in his local community in Fife – thanks to the local Celtic…
The Bear has been busy in the Celtic archives and come up with these details of how the Celtic players and fans travelled together to Edinburgh for an important…
The Shamrock’s esteemed Johnstone correspondent, The Bear, has been sent into the Celtic salt mines, our god-forsaken archives, to dig up snippets which give an insight into the club’s early…
