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…
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…
