THERE were times when what seemed to guide Jock Stein was his obsession with driving Rangers off the back pages and putting Celtic there in their…
Monthly Archives: March, 2018
This game on 9 March 1907 was all about Jimmy Quinn. Celtic’s goal scoring hero was the talk of Scotland in early 1907 for he had…
BROONY ON OUR NOISY NEIGHBOURS ‘Yeah they’ve managed to talk quite a lot this week. We’ll just do our usual job and turn up. In the…
Two days to go to the big match and the players will be well aware that the pressure is on. I am often told that players…
On this day in 1965, Jimmy McGrory was relieved of his post as manager of Celtic. He had assumed the role in July 1945, replacing Jimmy…
Earlier today I met up with former Celtic player Dougie McGuire. Dougie played for Celtic in the 1980s, although he only managed four competitive games for…
CELTIC paid £3 million for him in 2013 and there have been a right few bad signings over the years, but Derk Boerrigter takes the biscuit…
SINCE 1921, Ibrox on New Year’s Day had been a bogey. Some draws, and a few wins when the New Year fixture was played on the…
IN The Celtic Star Podcast Extra Kevin Graham had a very interesting chat with Alan Morrison, the man behind Celtic by Numbers. Alan provided a statistical…
I was born into an east end of Glasgow in Shettleston, into a Catholic, Celtic supporting family on 22 February 1947. My earliest Celtic memory was…
ODDLY enough, although Ibrox may be the home of our greatest rivals, we have had some great games there. Our very first Scottish Cup win was…
A week is a long time in politics, it’s been said, though a week must seem a helluva lot longer when you are the victim of…
THEY have a name for it, on their forums. It’s something that is often discussed after they have suffered another defeat from Celtic or have watched…
STAN COLLYMORE hasn’t always been a Celtic man but has discovered Celtic on life’s journey and the more he learnt about the ethos of our club…
BRENDAN RODGERS has heard it all before. The background noise ahead of a big game is something that he doesn’t encourage in his own squad as…
KRISTOFFER AJER is looking forward to playing at Ibrox on Sunday lunchtime and plans to keep the league’s top scorer so far this season quiet. The…
On 5 March 1994, Celtic had beaten St Johnstone 1-0 in Perth in a Premier Division match. It was first game of what would be called…
THE squad that I joined was full of die-hard Celts – Paul McStay, Peter Grant, Roy Aitken, Pat Bonner, Tommy Burns – and they showed me…
Being in the army meant that my dad travelled around a fair bit in the sixties and seventies, and I was born in Oswestry as a…
Next up for The Celtic Star’s hugely popular Fan Of The Week is Ian O’Neill. Ian is from Irvine and he’s married to the lovely Julie.…
On this day in 1966, there took place one of the most exciting and tense matches I ever played in. It was a third round Scottish…
ODSONNE EDOUARD TALKS CELTIC The young striker, on-loan from PSG for the season – Celtic have an option to buy at the end of the season…
BELGIUM manager Roberto Martinez has told Celtic supporters that Charly Musonda is a player we will fall in love with once he’s settled into the club…
TOM CAMPBELL, co-author of The Glory and The Dream and numerous other fine Celtic books including most recently Bobby Evans, Celtic’s Forgotten Hero, today joins The…
CELTIC have been drawn to play Rangers at Hampden in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden next month. The draw was made today at Ibrox after…
Not always an easy watch, this one, but the job was done, and Celtic are in the semi-finals of our favourite competition, the Scottish Cup. The…
BRENDAN PILES ON THE PRESSURE AHEAD IBROX VISIT “We can’t wait for that game. I have really, really enjoyed those games home and away, and our…
“The war is over, the rebels have won” – March 4th, 1994. Fergus McCann paid the banks and took over Celtic, overthrowing a century of the…
In the months following the European Cup win in 1967, when I was still living with my parents in Cardonald on the south side of the…
THE final result at Celtic Park on Saturday makes it look easy but in the first half in particular, the Morton players showed why their away…