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.
Well, that wasn’t an easy watch – at least the last ten minutes weren’t, but it doesn’t really matter all that much because we are into…
ALLOA ATHLETIC VERSUS CELTIC IN THE SCOTTISH CUP… At 5.30pm this evening Alloa Athletic and Celtic will play in the Scottish Cup 4th Round tie, in…
Celtic 2 Hibs 0… Welcome back to everyone! It’s been a long three weeks, but it was worth the wait. It was a comfortable albeit far from…
THE FIRST TIME… Celtic’s first capture of the Scottish League took place in 1893. This was not the season-defining event that it would become in later…
TWO GAMES IN A DAY – WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM? WINNING THE LEAGUE ONE WEEK, THE EASTER RISING THE NEXT… The war intensified in 1915/16…
Celtic Winning the League – 50 Years Ago… Season 1971/72 was another remarkable season in the history of Celtic FC. There were spectacular moments in all…
Winning the Scottish League A Hundred Years Ago…Glory at Greenock 1921/22… The early 1920s were difficult for all sorts of reasons. The general climate of economic…
I was watching Celtic play Dundee one day at Celtic Park in 1965, and was standing beside a man who said to me and everyone else…
The Scottish League had been in existence for six years and Celtic had won it three times… Celtic won their third Scottish League title in season…
Rangers 0 Celtic 2 – New Year’s Day 1921 New Year’s Day 1921 was a fine day. New Year celebrations, as usual, had been long and…
HENRY ‘BEEF’ MARSHALL – 1872-1936… A much neglected player is Henry Marshall, sometimes called Harry and other times called “Beef” because he was a stocky, gritty…
There will be very few of us, I fancy, who will shed a lot of tears at midnight on Friday night when 2021 eventually leaves us.…
One of the stranger experiences of watching Celtic over the years, but at least it was a win for our depleted team. Give Carl Starfelt his…
As in 2021, white Christmases were not common, but in 1909 there was rain with loads of mud, but that sort of thing did not stop…
1935 – A Merrier Merry Christmas for Celtic… It was indeed the bleak midwinter. 21 December 1935 was frosty and foggy, so much so that many…
Things were happening in December 2000. Celtic had narrowly gone out of the UEFA Cup to Bordeaux, but everything else was good – more or less.…
Christmas need not be a time of sadness and depression as this one clearly is for many due to this horrible pandemic. There have been many…
Well, we could have done with this game NOT being played after all, couldn’t we? It was a dreadful match played in dreadful conditions and you…
CELTIC’S TWENTY SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP FINALS… There have been 20 Celtic successes in League Cup finals viz… 1. On 31 October 1956 – Celtic 3 Partick…
Well, was that not a sight for sore eyes? If ever we needed a trophy, it was today It is a time of trouble and worry…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.19… It was as well that the League Cup final of the 2019/20 season was held in December 2019,…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.18… Celtic’s League Cup triumph number 18 was a good one, although there were times when the team were…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.17… Celtic sealed their 17th Scottish League Cup triumph on 26 November 2017. It meant that Brendan Rodgers had…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.16… 2016/17 was one of the greatest in the history of the club, as the team, rightly called “the…
The long journey down the A9 will have been a little sweeter, one feels, thanks to Anthony Ralston! It was a goal that frankly did not…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.15… Ronny Deila was an unknown factor when he took over in summer 2014. When the first League Cup…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – WIN No.14… The Celtic triumph in the Scottish League Cup of season 2008/09 was an unusual, although welcome one. It…
Celtic 1 Motherwell 0… This one was not very good for one’s nerves. Things were hardly helped by the dismal collapse of Hearts before most supporters…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No. 13… It was a strange season, was 2005/06! It was the first season of Gordon Strachan as manager, and…
CELTIC’S SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP TRIUMPHS – No.12… If Celtic were on their knees in spring 2000, they were certainly back on their feet and up fighting…
