We were at Hampden on Sunday 19 March 2000 for the League Cup Final against Aberdeen. Following a disastrous season which has seen a Scottish Cup…
Monthly Archives: March, 2018
A certain feeling of disappointment about this one, but a more leisurely reflection might lead one to feel that there was more good than bad in…
THE evening of 5 March 1980 turned out to be a wonderful one for every Celtic fan. The best-known name in European football – the mighty Real…
So it finished Motherwell 0 Celtic 0. I have been playing organised football, that is, 11-a-side team matches, since I was 8 years of age but…
PADDY ROBERTS spoke to Celtic TV after making his come-back as a second half substitute in the goalless draw at Fir Park yesterday. Here’s what he…
Today’s piece on The Celtic Star with memories of this day in 2001 brought many glorious thoughts flooding back. When Martin O’Neill was appointed manager I…
BRENDAN’S THOUGHTS ON THIS AFTERNOON’S 0-0 DRAW AT MOTHERWELL “I thought it was pretty even in the first period of the game. Scott Bain had to…
WHAT were the main talking point after today’s goalless draw at an absolutely bitterly cold Fir Park? 1. THE BOTTOM LINE. Okay we didn’t win and…
SCOTT BAIN 7- Three decent first half saves when it was 11 v 11. Little to do after the Kipre red card but looks like an…
ON 18 March 2001, very impressively, Celtic, wearing their yellow change strip, took their first step to a domestic treble by beating Kilmarnock 3-0 in the Scottish…
KIERAN TIERNEY is OUT of today’s Premiership match at Motherwell where Celtic can increase their lead at the top of the table to 12 points with…
DECLAN McConville travelled home and away, getting his teenage kicks from Celtic as they completed an Invincible season, winning the treble and setting all sorts of…
On this day in 1961, a Celtic eleven of – Haffey, MacKay, Kennedy, Crerand, McNeill, Clark, Gallagher, Fernie, Hughes, Chalmers, Byrne – ran out at Firhill…
After the result of last Sunday’s match at Ibrox, this would have been a very happy – if not euphoric – week of training for the…
STUART ARMSTONG made his first appearance of the year for Celtic when he came on for the last five minutes on Beautiful Sunday. A troublesome hernia…
A great result on Sunday, and a gritty performance in a curate’s egg of a game. Tremendous tension throughout in Ottawa’s James Street Pub; one of…
A few weeks before the Glasgow Derby on 12 March 2017 I had decided I wouldn’t go to the game, instead I would fly over to…
ON this day in 1991 Celtic beat Rangers 2-0 at Celtic Park in the Quarter Final of the Scottish Cup – but that is only half…
“I can’t deny we are on the final straight. We have nine league games to go, and it’s been a long season with lots of games,…
BRENDAN ON BARRY AND BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY “Listen, Barry Ferguson is someone I don’t know. I’ve never met him so I can’t comment on him. I only…
We have read this week on The Celtic Star how Celtic won the Scottish League at Motherwell in 1966. They did the same 50 years earlier…
Happy St Patrick’s Day!…and it seems the perfect occasion to recall the first-team debut of an Irishman in the colours of Celtic. This young man was…
I wanted to let the dust really settle before putting my thoughts down for The Celtic Star. Leading up to Sunday’s match at Ibrox I was…
ANTHONY Ralston today joined Dundee United on an emergency loan until the end of this season. The 19-year-old right back has just recovered from injury and…
THE CELTIC STAR mentioned this morning that Brendan Rodgers had found a safe pair of hands in Scott Bain. Now Brendan has said that Scott Bain’s…
JACK HENDRY provided one of the funny moments from Beautiful Sunday. When the £10Million striker misses that open goal in the closes stages,the look on the…
ON this day in 1910 Celtic took another step towards their sixth League Championship in a row with a 2-0 win over Third Lanark at Parkhead…
APPARENTLY Brendan Rodgers is facing a ‘Battle’ to keep hold of Scott Bain who after his outstanding debut on Sunday – and you read about that…
ODSONNE EDUARD in an interview with France Football praised his French team-mates at Celtic and thanked manager Brendan Rodgers and coach Kolo Toure for the help…
On this day in 2013, the players of Aberdeen arrived at Celtic Park for a league match, probably well aware from the pre-match press coverage that…