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.
Jimmy McMenemy: The Napoleon who never met his Waterloo. On World Book Day, an Extract from David Potter’s Early Stars section in our best-seller Walfrid &…
Celtic for the Scottish Cup! And so, in a classic case of common sense, the SFA (bless them!) have decided there will be a Scottish Cup…
We just about threw this one away! But it was a win, and we would have settled for this after the traumatic events of this week.…
Much has been the discussion of late of who the next Manager will be. The choice, one assumes, has already been made by those who make…
The news that Neil Lennon has now resigned is no great shock. It has been expected for months, and it was probably the League Cup exit…
And this was awful! Just what on earth was all this about, Celtic? No-one can possibly defend that performance, and it seems now that these five…
It was just by chance the other day that I discovered that Eddie Connachan had died in South Africa at the end of January. He was…
Another win for Celtic. Somewhat uninspired and a little pedestrian, but a win is still a win, and there were some quite outstanding individual performances -…
Early on in his Celtic managerial career, Jock Stein realised that he would have to win the propaganda battle over Rangers, and anything that he could…
It is sometimes said that a poor game of football is like watching paint drying. This one was distinctly inferior to watching snow melting. The snow…
A 4-0 win away from home sounds good – and it was to a certain extent, but there was something very flat about this game, and…
A better performance today, but they don’t make things easy for you, do they? The last five minutes were fairly frantic of the type that “it…
In the old days when Celtic Park was full, one occasionally heard the Green Brigade and others singing “Back the SFA, Back the SFA” ad infinitum…
There was something rather unfortunate about Alec Boden’s playing career in that he tended to get injured at the wrong time, and of course he played…
I don’t think we’ll be throwing any parties about this one or any lighting of celebratory bonfires, but we can permit ourselves at least a smile…
This was disappointing. It cannot totally be explained away by Bobby Madden (although he did miss several clear fouls, particularly a grab on Edouard) nor by…
It is not fashionable for Celtic fans to show any sort of liking for Peter Lawwell these days, but I have always felt that a more…
Well, no-one is going to say that Celtic’s problems are over after tonight, but it was at least a step in the right direction. Two good…
JOSEF VENGLOS 1936-2021 Jo Venglos was another of the many people on whom it could be said that he just came at the wrong time in…
JOHANNES EDVALDSSON – 1950-2021 Johannes Edvaldsson was in some ways very unfortunate in his Celtic career. Yet he had his moments of glory as well, not…
Celtic have the look of death about them these days, do they not? After playing themselves into a winning position, they proceeded to throw it all…
Well, it doesn’t get any better, does it? Today was just an excellent example of what football is like if there is no meaningful Celtic presence.…
For such a long time, it looked like a 0-0 draw, so overall maybe 1-1 was fair, but how annoying it was to go down so…
It was my first visit to Celtic Park in 1962 that I saw Jimmy Delaney. I was unimpressed really because although he was pointed out to me…
These are indeed strange times. Leaving aside for a minute the virus and its implications, we are now at the start of 2021 in a bizarre…
It is simply not going to happen this year, and it all perished with Nir Bitton’s moment of silliness. It was a foul and possibly even…
The remarkable footballing life of Tommy Docherty came to an end on Hogmanay 2020. He was 92, and he had been ill for some considerable time.…
So, it is now down to 20 League games to go, and all we have to do is win every one of them! Still no room…
The death of Jim McLean removed from the Scottish football scene one of the real characters. Dundee United owe almost everything to him – I say…
Well, I suppose that this one could have been a banana skin given the dodgy Hamilton artificial pitch, the absolutely awful conditions and the psychological effect…
