SATURDAY 10 MAY 1980 is the day that got drinking banned from football matches in Scotland and on the supporters buses going to games. In a…
Monthly Archives: May, 2019
GO to Ibrox and play like Champions, that’s the message that Neil Lennon is sending out to his Celtic stars ahead of Sunday’s penultimate league match…
STEVEN GERRARD today confirmed what we have all known anyway, that around the various clubs that have operated out of Ibrox, honour is in very short…
Celtic went on another long unbeaten run – 11 games. For those of you used to 20 plus games unbeaten and the Invincibles, 11 games back…
1996-97 season brought Paolo to the heady mix of Pierre and Cadette and a move from the temporary stand into section 111 in the corner between…
The 1997/98 season was one fraught with stress and tension all the way from the new bhoy Larsson’s poor pass in the very first game until…
THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL WRITERS ASSOCIATION Player of the Year shortlists have been revealed but perhaps they should have a sub-category within the main award? That would…
THE reports this morning that both Mikael Lustig and Kieran Tierney are likely to be available for Sunday’s trip to Govan is of course positive but…
ONE Celtic supporter wrote, 104 goals and 13 trophies…’and counting,’ replied Leigh Griffiths, ending his self imposed ban on Twitter by doing so. Those two words…
KIERAN TIERNEY returned to action at Pittodrie on Saturday to help get Celtic over the line in the Scottish Premiership and is now likely to rest…
THREE in a row was won remarkably earlier – on 26 March 2014 when Celtic travelled across the city to play in the big Glasgow Derby…
THE CELTIC STAR readers were first to vote James Forrest as our Player of the Year. On Sunday night his fellow professionals went one further when…
EARLIER today we looked back to the 1977 Scottish Cup Final which Celtic won 1-0 thanks to a controversial penalty which was converted by Andy Lynch…
CELTIC PARK will be ready for tomorrow’s final visit from Lisbon Lion Stevie Chalmers. Hail Cesar around The Celtic Star above the front door have been…
NEIL LENNON has spoken to Emilio Izaguirre about extending his stay in Scotland and the player himself has confirmed that the club have now offered him…
It will be a shame if Rangers decide not to do a Guard Of Honour on Sunday, but then again that is their decision. On Saturday…
STEVE CLARKE richly deserved the recognition he got on Sunday night when he was named the PFA Scotland Manager of the Year. The job he has…
THERE’S always a laugh to be had concerning Scottish football and this group of Celtic supporters have certainly provided that this morning as they ponder the…
IMAGINE a Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Rangers, where 70,000 tickets are sold but only 54,000 fans actually bother to show up! That’s exactly what…
THE papers are saying that the Rangers will not give Scotland’s newly crowned Champions a Guard of Honour at Ibrox on Sunday. It is a tradition…
No great lover of English football (well, I support Newcastle United but don’t tell anyone!) I nevertheless have been enthralled with this year’s title race, and…
NEIL LENNON’S second title in a row was won against Inverness Caley Thistle in the first match after the split at Celtic Park on 21 April…
BRENDAN RODGERS suddenly wants to talk about his great love for Celtic. He has been doing an interview in the Leicester City dressing room with the…
PETER LAWWELL this morning delivered a message of thanks to Neil Lennon, John Kennedy and the rest of the backroom staff, the players and supporters and…
YESTERDAY’S curve-ball story from Italy that Celtic had made an offer to Jose Mourinho probably has something in it. Had Neil Lennon failed to lead Celtic…
GIANLUCA Di MARZIO, Sky Italy’s top football reporter, has today reported that Celtic have made an offer to Jose Mourinho. It is a curveball that the…
MIKAEL LUSTIG is hopeful that his season is not over after he pulled up in the 90th minute in yesterday’s title win at Pittodrie. He spoke…
SCOTT BROWN accepts that the current achievements of this generation of Celtic players comes nowhere near what the class of 67 achieved, after securing the 8th…
How delighted I am to say that my pessimistic forebodings were unfounded, and that Celtic duly delivered at Pittodrie yesterday, doing so incidentally in a way…
Honorary ratings first. Actual ratings bracketed (). BANE – 8IAR/10 (9) A shining star. Showing yet again an inscrutable yet vicious focus. The save with his…