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.
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…
Liam Kelly’s brilliant article yesterday on the game on 8 October 1966 between Hibs and Celtic at Easter Road triggers a few memories of my own…
1902 was what one would have to describe as a rather crowded year in world history. Quite a lot happened. In footballing terms, the year was…
You Tube contains many gems. There is one that claims to be Queen’s Park v Celtic in the Scottish Cup Semi Final of 1927. In fact…
IT was a sign of how far Celtic had slipped that they failed to win a League and Cup double in any of the years between…
1968 is a year often described as the Prague Spring referring to the tragic events in Czechoslovakia when, for a spell, the liberalising Alexander Dubcek impressed…
For a man who played less than 100 games for the club, and was only very briefly for half a season (August – December 1966) considered…
Kinglassie is a very ordinary Fife ex-coal-mining village. Its best days are now clearly well behind it, and the once vibrant community never really recovered from…
IT is often a mistake made by football historians that war football was not important. In fact, if anything, football in the direst of circumstances (and…
The story of how one of the world’s most powerful anti-slavery songs became a Parkhead anthem is a remarkable one, but first we must disabuse ourselves…
I think we can all agree that Celtic’s worst ever newspaper headline was “SupercaleygoballisticCelticareatrocious” with reference to the dire events of February 8 2000. But a…
So, why do we not like Ibrox? It’s a fine stadium, not all that difficult to get to, parking facilities not bad, pies OK – but…
AT first glance, season 1963/64 was another dreadful season for Celtic, and there is no real point in denying that. Rangers won a treble in Scotland,…
IT was an incredible thought that since the Empire Exhibition Trophy of 1938, Celtic had won nothing at all other than the odd Glasgow Cup or…
One can never say such things with any kind of certainty, but one would feel that Neil Mochan must be unique in world football for having…
It was 22 May 1943. Even in the depths of war, a hint of optimism was now in the air. Rommel’s Afrika Korps had surrendered in…
CELTIC in world wars are like Jekyll and Hyde. Brilliant in 1914-18, (winning everything they entered bar one Scottish League, three Glasgow Cup and two Glasgow…
1892 was a wonderful year in the history of the Celtic Football Club. It was the first of many, of course, and although Dumbarton winning the…
“In 38 there was a show Glasgow was the place to go A model of the tower was football’s prize England sent four of the best…
There was little to be happy about this season. The only genuinely good performance was the 1-0 defeat of Rangers in the Scottish Cup in February…
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Celtic appointed Martin O’Neill as ‘manager of the football club’, and what an impact he was to have! David Potter looks back…
