Tom Duff – The Unholy Goalie
It was deadly silent in the Celtic changing room on New Year’s Day 1892. The players did not know where to look. Five goals down to Dumbarton at half-time without…
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BOOK REVIEW: A VERY DIFFERENT PARADISE
Review: ‘A Very Different Paradise’ by Tom Campbell ‘And if you know your history’ goes the most famous of the Celtic songs. How about, knowing that history better than most,…
‘A Very Different PARADISE’ BY TOM CAMPBELL – buy it here
The latest book by acclaimed Celtic writer and historian Tom Campbell is a dramatic re-imagining of a ‘sliding doors’ moment in the fascinating history of Celtic Football Club . .…
Will Quinn – Celtic’s Medicine Man
Will Quinn was a fixture at Celtic Park for almost three decades. Employed as both trainer and also groundsman under Willie Maley from 1912 through to the late 1930s,…
TELEGRAM TAM: Dundee Harp and the Honest Mistake
You may have heard of a football club called Dundee Harp. It is less likely that you have heard of a player called Tom O’Kane. Yet if it hadn’t…
Issue 5 of The Shamrock – out now
Issue 5 of the Celtic retro fanzine The Shamrock is now on sale. Read all about Celtic’s furthest ever away day (Argentina and Uruguay), The Parson of Parkhead, The Sorrowful Mystery that was…
The Shamrockers Rebel Ink Company
T-SHIRTS AND OTHER MERCH Celebrating all things Celtic. Click on the graphic below to visit our new online t-shirt store: The Shamrockers Rebel Ink Company. If you’d like to…
On a wing and a prayer – the 1931 Scottish Cup Final
In 1931 Celtic were hoping to win the oldest trophy in world football for the thirteenth time. For Motherwell, two years older than their Glasgow counterparts, it was their first-ever…
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