I am Celtic author and historian and write for The Celtic Star. I live in Kirkcaldy and have followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. I am a retired teacher and my other interests are cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns.
The time has come for a biography to be written about one of Celtic’s greatest ever players. I refer to Alec McNair who played for over…
Relying, perforce, on the BBC – radio at the time, TV afterwards – for this one, we are sometimes unduly influenced by what the commentators say…
Perhaps one of the lesser-known Celtic players of the early years, there are those who were of the opinion that Jimmy Blessington was one of the…
It’s a fair bet that 2020 will go down as one of the horror years of world history, as the press,TV and politicians combine to plunge us…
I enjoyed the article about Celtic in 1961 from Matt Corr that was published on The Celtic Star earlier today (you can read that below). Read…
It wouldn’t really matter whether it was the 1st XI, the 2nd XI, or simply 11 guys picked up off the streets, there is the permanent…
Earlier today in our latest extract from Walfrid & The Bould Bhoys, Liam Kelly told the story of David Meikleham the Shoemaker, who was a prominent…
Well, there was certainly no lack of Celtic players on view at Hampden tonight – but, oh dear, that funny, familiar, forgotten feeling of depression after…
This evening we look at another incredible character from Celtic’s early history, a player who is featured in David Potter’s Early Stars section in Walfrid &…
Better! A lot better, in fact. Although I had my apprehensions when I saw an unchanged team, and even more apprehensions after these first 40 sleepy…
The news of the death of Pat McCluskey was greeted with sadness in the Celtic community this morning. He was a man who played his own…
It nearly two years ago come Boxing Day when I found myself at Pittodrie with tickets for the Aberdeen end. Celtic won the game, which made…
The commentators called this one correctly, I think, when they said that they “had seen this movie before” at Kilmarnock v Celtic and Livingston v Rangers.…
I read with interest the entertaining and informative article by Paddy McMenamin concerning Irish Rebel Songs sung at Celtic Park. Before I go any further, I…
Champions League Qualifier (1st Round) Celtic 6 KR Reykjavik 0 This was a solid result. The opposition was poor, it has to be said, but Celtic still…
Happy Birthday, John Fallon! John Fallon is some ways typifies Celtic supporters. He attends virtually every game, he talks loudly and volubly about the club, he…
Billy Price was one of the many Celtic players in the early 1960s who might be described as “good enough”. He would probably have done a…
Fergus McCann v David Murray – How Celtic Turned The Tables On Their Glasgow Rivals by Stephen O’Donnell and published by Pitch Publishing… I was privileged…
This was poor! It was feckless, lacking in imagination and generally low-key with so many players simply not delivering today – Forrest, McGregor and particularly Edouard…
Well, Sky Sports 1 Celtic TV 0 was the first score of the day once I realised that the action on my laptop was about a…
Adam McLean, not to be confused with Davie who was slightly older, was one of the most unsung Celtic heroes of all time, yet he had…
I enjoyed my visit to “Parkheed” to-day. It was surprisingly easy to log in (I expected trouble) and it was nice to hear the dulcet Welsh…
NOT many of the crowd who make their way to see Celtic play the French Champions PSG in at the Parc des Princes in Paris on…
Charlie Shaw is deservedly looked upon as one of the greatest of all the old Celts. Certainly he was one of our best ever goalkeepers, and…
Seldom have Celtic been better served than they way they were by Bobby Hogg who played something like 538 times for the club – a figure…
In Ancient Athens it was said of a woman that “her greatest virtue is never to be spoken about either for good or ill”. Such prejudiced,…
Continuing a mini-series about great Celtic left backs, we come to the man who was arguably the best of them all. We are talking about Carluke’s…
PAT WOODS and Tom Campbell, those most eminent of Celtic historians borrow from Charles Dickens to describe this year – “it was the best of times,…
Adams, McNair and Orr… is the start of one of the best Celtic teams of them all, and Willie Orr was their captain and leader, yet…
The era from 1945-1951 is not much cherished or loved by Celtic supporters. In a word, Celtic were poor, even thought they had some really good…
