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.
Tom Maley, the son of a soldier by the same name, was born in Portsmouth in 1864 and is thus four years older than Willie. He…
FOUR STRAIGHT HOME DEFEATS FOR CELTIC…here’s what happened the last time Celtic lost four games on the bounce at Celtic Park… Score: Celtic 2 Partick Thistle…
It hurts to say it, but now I must join those who say that our Manager has to go. There can now be no possible excuse…
There was something so predictable about this. The game turned on two key moments. The first was when Kristoffer Ajer refused to go when that ball…
I had often been told by people who should have known better that Rangers = Scotland = blue as distinct from Celtic = Ireland = green,…
Not a good day for Celtic! A draw was probably a fair result, for Celtic deserved something for their belated fight back, but we really could…
It is the custom in quite a few Celtic families (well it is in mine, anyway!) for a grandparent to cradle a newly born child in…
“Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding…” – so begins the stirring song of Hugh O’Donnell, the “dauntless red Hugh” of the 16th century who…
Patsy Gallacher was born in Milford Poor House, County Donegal in 1891. He spent his early years in Ramelton before his parents decided to join the…
I was always told that the first Celtic team to wear the green and white horizontal stripes (they weren’t called the Hoops until decades later!) was…
John Deans’ career was going nowhere fast in autumn 1971. He was playing for Motherwell, or rather he wasn’t, for he was in the middle of…
WILLIE LYON was anything but a Celt in background, ethnicity or even (in his early days) inclination. He was an Englishman whose family had moved to…
13 April 1918 was the day that it all ended for Celtic, and it almost all ended for the British Empire as well. The German Ludendorff…
Charlie Shaw was a legend in a team which is already rich in goalkeepers – Dan McArthur, Davie Adams, John Thomson, Ronnie Simpson and many others…
THE CELTIC SONG was released in October 1961 and sung by the Celtic supporting Glen Daly, this song is still played at Celtic Park on match…
We all know that Celtic’s next game is against Hibs at Easter Road on Saturday 21 November, with a 3pm kick-off. We also all know that…
It was with sadness that we heard of the death of Alec Byrne. Alec played for Celtic between 1957 and 1963, and these years immediately tell…
Well, the problem about watching Celtic these days is that there seem to be several Celtics! Even today, there were two of them. We had a…
This was an absolutely shocking performance. This was a Celtic team in name only, and little can be said to mitigate or excuse the performance of…
The build-up throughout Scotland was intense, made all the more so by the fact that the Scottish League was to be decided that day as well.…
In retrospect one can see clearly that the semi-final replay was Gallagher’s career changing moment. It did not necessarily look that way at the time, but…
Every new Manager worth his salt will make a few changes in any case, for he will want his own men. All that Charlie could hope…
HAMPDEN GLORY – Part 1 Jock Stein apparently said soon after he took over at Celtic Park in March 1965 that he wanted to rid himself…
I’m sure that Neil Lennon and Shane Duffy and a few others will be willing to accept the apologies of those who have so maligned them.…
There are several ways of looking at this one. The pessimists (and goodness knows, there are enough of them around!) will tell us that it is…
Celtic have played in 77 Scottish Cup semi-finals. We have won 57 and lost 20 (ignoring draws which went to replays or as in 2016, a…
ON THIS DAY IN 1974 Celtic ended their League Cup Final hoodoo by thrashing a fine Hibs side 6-3. Here’s what happened at Hampden…The 1970s were…
It is time to stop the rot. Celtic must win at Aberdeen. The League season, one feels, is teetering on the brink. It is of course…
Last week on The Celtic Star Matt Corr interviewed Brendan O’Hara, the great-great grandson on Celtic’s first secretary and Founding Father John O’Hara. It’s a exclusive…
Something to cheer you up on a, cough, Blue Monday, for all Celtic supporters. We took a painful one on Saturday and we are still all…
