It was a Saturday afternoon and there was a crowd of 73,000 at Hampden Park on this day in 1953 for the Scotland/England clash of Celtic…
Monthly Archives: May, 2018
The dreadful weather conditions in Scotland in early 1979 decimated the football card, to the extent that Celtic would play only two competitive games by the…
SINCE Dark Arts Master Craig Levein laid down the challenge the would be hard men of Scottish football have been lying in wait for a chance…
IF the celebrations were in danger of being just a little bit flat on Sunday after the 1-0 loss to Aberdeen, Kieran Tierney was determined to…
We’ve been looking back at this day in 1982 when Celtic won the league by defeating St Mirren 3-0 at Celtic Park. It was one of…
ON THIS DAY in 1982 Celtic ‘won the league for Doyle’ at an emotional Celtic Park after a dramatic afternoon. We wrote about this game this…
The summer of 1978 was a time of huge change at Celtic Park. As predicted, the legend who was Jock Stein was replaced as the manager…
SATURDAY 15 MAY 1982 was a tense but ultimately joyful day at Celtic Park as Celtic before 39,669 fans clinch their second League Championship in a…
JACK HENDRY is cup-tied so won’t play any part in Celtic’s defence of the Scottish Cup at Hampden on Saturday, but we seemed to cope fine…
We lost Tommy Burns ten years ago today. Tommy was perhaps the most loved Celtic player of all time – it would have been great if…
CELTIC concluded the 1992-93 season on this day in 1993 with a 2-0 victory over Dundee in a game that will be remembered as the Jungle’s…
Having beaten Rangers 6-1 in the semi-final, a Celtic eleven ran out at Ibrox on this day in 1896 day to face Queen’s Park in the…
THE video of Neil Lennon re-creating his aeroplane celebrations in an Edinburgh pub this evening is doing the rounds on social media and has been picked…
WHEN you are in hospital so missing the game, it’s nice to know the your daughter is thinking about you. Well Cathy certainly proved that she…
Next up for our very popular Fan Of The Week on The Celtic Star is a Celtic supporter from the world of politics, it’s Tommy Sheridan.…
KRISTOFFER AJER has today signed a new four-year contract which will see him remain at the club until at least the summer of 2022. This follows…
Musing through my Sky Sports Year Book for 2017/18, as one does now and again, I noticed that on page 767 it says that Celtic have…
CHARLY MUSONDA has deleted all mentions of Celtic from his Intragram account again. Yesterday his girlfriend stated that she’s glad that she’ll not have to go…
“Celtic have had it their own way for far too long,” Steven Gerrard reckons. He was speaking about his new job while in Dubai at a…
For many years, Celtic had been the only team in Britain whose players were not numbered to make identification easier for the spectators. The idea had…
SHAY LOGAN assaulted Mikael Lustig at the final whistle at Celtic Park today. I saw it happen as did many others in the ground but not…
Yes, yes, I know it doesn’t really matter, but I am still depressed about this result. The team started well, but gradually fell away as the…
CELTIC lost a home match in domestic competition for the first time since Brendan Rodgers took over as manager as Aberdeen stole the three points to…
BRENDAN RODGERS has selected the strongest side possible for today’s game against Aberdeen and it could well be the starting eleven for the Scottish Cup Final…
DAVIE PROVAN, in his newspaper column today, has a pop at Brendan Rodgers for his comments about the length of the grass at Tynecaste last Sunday.…
MIKAEL LUSTIG has spoken out against the articifical surfaces at Kilmarnock and Hamilton and reckons that Scottish football needs to firm up on its rule book…
BRENDAN RODGERS insists that Jock Stein remains the greatest manager of them all. On Saturday at Hampden Rodgers has the chance to achieve something that Stein…
On this day in 1982, Celtic beat Rangers 2-1 in the final of the Glasgow Cup at Ibrox. It was an evening match and the Celtic…
SCOTT BROWN was on the BBC earlier and gave the biggest hint yet that Celtic are big admirers of John McGinn. The Celtic captain named the…
LAST Saturday I was in Tenerife and took the opportunity to travel on a Supporters bus to see CD Tenerife play Almeria in La Liga 2.…