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…
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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 Hazey Janes – Live In Glasgow
The Hazey Janes are the band behind Michael Marra’s excellent tribute song to Gil Heron, Celtic’s pioneering forward from the 1950s. The Dundee band are currently on tour in Scotland…
Celtic Book Review: ‘Paradise Road’ by Stephen O’Donnell
Football fiction is considered a mixed bag by most readers with few writers having the ability to capture the authenticity of the lives and stories of those who follow the…
Celtic Banners: Champions of Europe banner (on the pitch at Lisbon, 1967)
This home-made banner made it all the way from Scotland to the Estadio Nacional – then over the moat and on to the pitch in celebration of Celtic’s greatest victory.…
Ronny Deila – the Norwegian view (90 Minute Cynic podcast)
Norwegian blogger Christian Wulff joined the 90 Minute Cynic podcast to discuss the new Celtic manager with the resident Celtic fans. Christian provides a proper insight into Ronny’s record and…
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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