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Billy McNeill: This Is How Football Should Be
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…
POLITICAL FOOTBALL NO.2 – CELTIC AND THE IRON CURTAIN
“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…
Celtic war hero commemorated by local community
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…
Celtic Snippets – An early football special! (1894)
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…
CELTIC SNIPPETS – THE CELTIC VIEW FROM YESTERYEAR
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…
The Cumbie Boys . . . “Parkheid is their new Jerusalem!”
Stumbled across a mention of this song in an old Celtic magazine about the infamous Gorbals gang, the Cumbie Boys (from Cumberland Street) in a 60s song made famous…
THE CELTIC METHOD
THE CELTIC METHOD: From Oscar Wilde and Porridge to DeNiro and the Game of Thrones ‘I think the more experience you have of life, the better it is for an…
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