A Celtic Act of Contrition
A curious thing will take place at Celtic Park this coming Saturday. Although it is Flag Day and the formal celebration of the club’s third Championship in succession, the flag…
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Achill Island CSC
One of the most publicised of Celtic banners of recent times when Zombies went into a fury online claiming that an ‘Achill Islam’ banner had been created by Celtic fans…
Henrik Larsson interview, 2014: “Celtic was a mystical club”
The King of Kings recently gave an interview in the German football magazine ’11 Freunde’. He had some very interesting, funny and moving things to say – about Celtic…
Tommy Burns and the Winch Mob
This great wee story about the legendary TB comes from former Kilmarnock player Alan Kerr in response to a post from Tommy’s daughter, Jenna. It features Colin ‘Melly’ Meldrum –…
The Timaloys of Paradise (The Celtic support – March 1961)
In the 1950s and 1960s, Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly was one of the biggest selling football magazines in the UK. The magazine’s coverage of the game in Scotland was sparse…
Icelandic Tales: “When the Celts go up, to lift the Polar Bear Cup . . .”
Celtic take on Icelandic opposition for only the second time tonight as the season formally gets under way and the club marks a new era as our new manager…
Celtic Snippets – JIMMY QUINN, THE OLD WARHORSE (Poem – August 1914)
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…
Celtic Stickers
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…
the shamrock 