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…
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…
the shamrock 