THE BOOK OF CELTIC QUOTES
You don’t play for Celtic, you live for Celtic. Tommy Burns John Greig hit me once. I got up and then a moment later I was down again. Then seconds…
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Book Review: Celtic In The Black and White Era
It is rare that you feel genuine excitement at the release of a Celtic photo book nowadays given the familiarity with so many club pictures through over-exposure online. Yet when…
HUGH MURPHY – A Monumental Celt
When a crowd of 15,000 assembled at Celtic Park for a league fixture against Third Lanark at on 29th August 1903 they were surprised when the players ran out to…
Issue 6 of The Shamrock
Issue 6 of the Celtic retro fanzine The Shamrock is now on sale. This is a Charlie Tully special with features on the Irishman’s glittering career, his ‘olimpico’ goals and the phenomenon…
Book Review: Take Me to Your Paradise
This book is sub-titled ‘A History of Celtic-related Incidents and Events’ and even that doesn’t seem to capture the huge range of stories which are contained in over 370…
LAZIO, AGAIN by Tom Campbell
During World War Two (and for some years afterwards) a popular song by Vera Lynn contained these words: “We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, Don’t know when … but I know…
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…
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,…
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