Danny McGrain, David Potter & Willie Fernie – what a combination!
Celtic in the Eighties by David Potter. Out now, order your copy at Celticstarbooks.com
We’re certainly Putting on the Style with the new promotion from Celtic Star Books. David Potter’s final book – Celtic in the Eighties – has been selling wonderfully well since its launch earlier this month. It is by far our fastest-ever seller.
Our launch promotion involved a copy of David’s book signed by Celtic’s fabulous captain for most of that remarkable decade – the equally remarkable Daniel Fergus McGrain – plus a complimentary copy of David Potter’s excellent biography of another legendary Hoops full-back, Alec McNair – Celtic’s Icicle.
That deal proved to be hugely popular, to the extent that we had to ask Danny, who also wrote the foreword in Celtic in the Eighties, to sign another batch of books to satisfy the huge demand, which he kindly agreed to do.
Celtic in the Eighties and Willie Fernie – Putting on the Style both by David Potter. Photo The Celtic Star
The good news – or bad news if you missed out – is that all the copies signed by Danny plus all remaining copies of Celtic’s Icicle sold out very quickly.
However, the even better news is that Danny has now agreed to sign the final batch of Celtic in the Eighties this evening, and for this new promotion we are going to include another of David Potter’s wonderful Celtic biographies as a free gift with each order, whilst the remaining stocks last. This time it will be Willie Fernie – Putting on the Style, a brilliant read.
Celtic 3-0 St Mirren, Scottish Premier League, Celtic Park, 15 May 1982.
Celtic captain Danny McGrain collects the championship trophy as Roy Aitken looks on. Photo The Celtic Wiki
Ordering is simple, just place your order for Celtic in the Eighties at celticstarbooks.com/shop and we’ll do the rest, ensuring your copy is signed by Danny and a complimentary Willie Fernie book dispatched by the next working day, whilst stocks last, from Wednesday of this week after Danny does the honours tonight on his signing duties.
Danny McGrain signing copies of Celtic in the Eighties by David Potter. Photo: Celtic Star Books
No need to Pile on the Agony…get not one but two fantastic Celtic books by the one and only David Potter for just £20 plus postage by ordering today and Celtic legend Danny McGrain will sign you book!
Please note that stocks are now running very low indeed and the book will NOT be reprinted. Click on the image below to order…
Matt Corr
Celtic in the Eighties by David Potter. Out now on Celtic Star Books. Click on image above to order.
Arne Engles could solve Celtic’s midfield frustrations……..
By handing in a transfer request.
The midfields needing fresh input .it’s stale slow and hard to watch Hatate just gives the ball away a shadow of the player he was under Ange ,Ingles seems to be everyones new whipping boy and fk knows why the petulant one hasn’t gave him a full run in the team
we have the players ,we also have a useless manager who plays the one way never changes the system never has a plan b ,we’ve went back the way , every manager has his number even jim Goodwin had it
yet still folk think he’s Elite
On Thursday, it remains unclear as to who will be given the starting position for Hatate.
McCowan still doesn’t seem to be trusted in the bigger games as such, especially at European level.
Calmac would be the natural choice imo, but he remains unmovable in his role, not unless a game is won easily.
So potentially Paulo would be favourite, even if I think it actually might work better for ourselves, if calmac and Paulo swapped roles imo?
The midfield areas haven’t functioned as well as I would like for considerable amount of time.
Especially with a 3 who can be man marked to easily, especially against the back to the wall teams. So in turn having to rely on the full backs, to try and create the overloads from deeper with less space to operate within.
As much as I wouldn’t complain about having 2 options available now, for each role within the midfield areas. Still not convinced that it function as well within the structure of our team set up, and style of play so focused upon a possession game imo?
It’s common enough nowadays to have a 5/5 split between defensive and attacking main roles within a team.
Dont believe we need to be set up in such a way, within so many of our SPFL matches imo.
We still don’t seem to interested in getting runners from our midfield areas, along with getting shots on target from distance, to try and draw a defensive set up, out of position more so, than able to block shots to easily.
As we don’t offer to much differently, then a high decency is relied upon scoring the first goal to try and change the course of a game. Hardly helped by ourselves still quite venerable from set plays.
So the structure of our team, along with the game plans involved, will determine who actually gets the starting position. To predictable for my liking, that stems beyond just the midfield areas also imo.
Still have a look about ourselves, that we are still searching for the right combinations within the team at present, which I would say was a waste of a pre season, when you would expect the likes to have been in operation better than what we have seen to date.
Moreso in the midfield areas, where the blame of the transfer window wasn’t in existence, and still not functioning as well as expected either imo