Back from the pub where the Tommy Gemmell CSC have been leading me astray and there’s four things that this Rangers supporter wants to get off…
Monthly Archives: April, 2018
Well, we all knew we were better than they were, but we didn’t really imagine we were that much better. This was simply no contest, and…
THE CHEERING, now a distant memory, long since died out and replaced by utter despair, a broken club’s problems ruthlessly exposed. Scott Brown stood up to…
CRAIG GORDON returns for Celtic today for the Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers. The back four is as expected – Lustig, Ajer, Boyata and Tierney. The…
“We cover for everything and penalties are something you can’t discount,” Brendan Rodgers admitted. “Even though it’s hard to recreate that situation, I think you can…
PADDY ROBERTS ON THAT MORELOS SITTER ON BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY “No, I can’t have sympathy for him, but I can relate to it. Rangers were delighted when…
Celtic 2 Leeds United 1 This semi-final of the European Cup, played on this day in 1970, lived up to expectations for several reasons. Firstly, it…
WE asked our contributors, or at least the ones sober enough to respond, for their predictions for the Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers at Hampden. DAVID…
APPALLING defending from Hampden bottlers Aberdeen in today’s first Scottish Cup semi-final means that Motherwell will be in the final next month. Motherwell were gifted two…
BRENDAN RODGERS takes his Celtic squad to Hampden tomorrow in a pretty much unique position in his second season in charge – he has an almost…
If you go on to the internet and look up ‘World Football Derbies’, you will find that a Celtic v Rangers clash is right up there…
The last season of the decade of the 1890s – 1899/1900 – was a mixture of the disappointing and the successful. The league campaign had gone…
SUNDAY could be Brendan Rodgers’ big first ten in a row as Celtic manager – ten games against Rangers without defeat. Yesterday at his press conference…
WHAT CHANCE do Rangers have on Sunday? Rangers supporter Jim Whyte asked Martin O’Neill on TalkSport. “Well you’re asking an ex-Celtic manager so of course I…
THEIR fear of the Celtic captain Scott Brown is perfectly summed up by this post on one of their forums tonight. We’ll amend the actual text…
MIKAEL LUSTIG and his manager Brendan Rodgers both referred to the celebrations within the Ibrox dressing room and among their support when they were drawn against…
BRENDAN RODGERS cleverly heaped the pressure on Rangers by reminding them that Sunday’s semi-final is the game that they were cheering for when the two semi-finals…
BRENDAN’S HAMPDEN MESSAGE: “The history is not weighing on us. We just have to do our job. We set our targets and goals and one of…
In a small parish hall in Glasgow’s east end, Brother Walfrid has a vision to bring despair to an end. Some have left their home land,…
On this day in 1963, Celtic met Raith Rovers at Ibrox in a semi-final of the Scottish Cup. To be honest, everyone in the football community…
NEIL DONCASTER, the Chief Executive of the SPFL, seems to lurch from crisis to scandal and back again to crisis, and of course we’ve been asked…
I suppose I used to read too many of these Second World War comics but the phrases “cut off from my unit” and “behind enemy lines”…
WILLIE WALLACE made his European debut for Celtic 51 years ago tonight and certainly made his mark by scoring two fabulous second half goals that would…
When I went to Celtic Park for the first-leg of that European Cup semi-final on 12 April 1967 it was for a radio commentary, with George…
DECLAN McCONVILLE has been taking us on a very enjoyable month by month journey back to the Invincible Season. The 18 year old Celtic fanatic looks…
BRENDAN RODGERS likes Callum McGregor and on Sunday is likely to rely on players who have enjoyed considerable personal successes in playing against Rangers – and…
PADDY ROBERTS will start for Celtic on Sunday as Brendan Rodgers looks to the on loan Manchester City winger to exploit the weaknesses in the Rangers…
WHY is it only called a ‘Title Decider” if we play THEM? No-one is calling the game against Hibs a “Title Decider” this morning but if…
After relatively straightforward victories over Zurich and Nantes in the first two rounds, we found Vojvodina of Novisad in the then Yugoslovia (now Serbia) a much…
“Only a fool would forecast the result of a football match” is one of the many sayings attributed to Willie Maley, and certainly it is amazing…