McGrory the Dug – unsung hero of the Ben Nevis Huddle 2014!
Hoopy the Huddle Hound wasn’t the only dug to make it up Ben Nevis in support of the Celtic FC Foundation. This substantially smaller hound, named after Celtic’s legendary striker…
Ben Nevis Charity Huddle 2014! Support required
Tomorrow almost 200 hundred Celtic fans will get up ridiculously early to scale the biggest mountain in Britain, the 1,344 metre high Ben Nevis near Fort William. It’s summer time…
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…
Win Broony/ VvD match boots! Fundraising raffle, £5 per ticket
Celtic Graves Society has 2 excellent prizes up for grabs in this fundraising raffle. All funds raised split between CGS and Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice which cared for Wee Oscar.…
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…
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