The Celtic Star founder and editor, who has edited numerous Celtic books over the past decade or so including several from Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, Tommy Gemmell and Jim Craig. Earliest Celtic memories include a win over East Fife at Celtic Park and the 4-1 League Cup loss to Partick Thistle as a 6 year old. Best game? Easy 4-2, 1979 when Ten Men Won the League. Email editor@thecelticstar.co.uk
HEARTS are now confirmed as a Championship club for next season and will join Scot Gardiner’s Inverness Caley Thistle as the Highlanders have missed out on…
David Potter has written on here about the abuse that would be directed at a young Stevie Chalmers early in his Celtic career at the beginning…
AT the very beginning of 2020 the former Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston attacked Celtic fans who claim that Rangers died in February 2012 and that the…
NEIL LENNON has been contemplating the Behind Closed Doors football that we’re set to experience in Scottish football from the start of August. Full crowds were…
ONE major up-side of having to endure this long lay-off from football is that the Celtic Stars who have pretty much had little to no rest…
ANOTHER DAY another award for Odsonne Edouard, this time he has been named as the Sports Writer’s Player of the Year less than 24 hours after…
IAN WRIGHT played most of his football in England but he did venture north of the border to join the ill-fated John Barnes regime at Celtic…
THE TWO THINGS I like most about what Scott Brown has been saying about his midfield partner Callum McGregor are that the skipper seems determined to…
Peter Dowds of Irish parentage and the son of an iron miner was born and died in the same house at 27 Graham Street, Johnstone in…
CELTIC has a business model that relies on over 50,000 supporters buying a season ticket in the 60,000 capacity stadium that Fergus McCann built in the…
ANOTHER DAY and another angle to the Kristoffer Ajer leaving Celtic story that has been bubbling away for the past month or so. We’ve had continuous…
CELTIC’S season didn’t end after their European Cup win over Inter Milan in Lisbon on 25 May 1967. There was one more game to play and…
NEIL LENNON, who was last night confirmed as the Sports Writers’ Manager of the Year, has revealed that Celtic have opened contract extension talks with French…
CALLUM McGREGOR is one of those Celtic stalwarts who is lucky if he gets even a fortnight away from playing football. Last summer Scotland had a…
NOTHING against the boy from St Etienne and it’s certainly not his fault that he appears to be getting plenty of support from Scotland and the…
“The atmosphere crackling as Celtic have a corner against Barcelona, the fans bring so much to those games, Wanyama is loitering at the back post, surely…
WHEN Celtic won Nine-in-a-Row in 1974 the club recognised the remarkable achievement by flying nine title winning flags above the Jungle. That of course was the…
Fergus McCann versus David Murray – How Celtic Turned the Tables on their Glasgow Rivals is the new book from Stephen O’Donnell and it is published…
THINGS ARE DEFINITELY HAPPENING. Yesterday seemed like the first day of a new era for Scottish football and all the Premiership clubs, after the news of…
MOST of you won’t have realised that it’s Father’s Day on Sunday 21 June! And with it not being that easy to get to the shops…
FURTHER to our earlier article Here We Go – Quadruple and Quintuple Trebles, 10IAR, Virtual Season Tickets for BCD football then fans back end of the…
WHILE some people are getting a little hot under the collar as they contemplate the breaking news that Scottish football will be back and will begin…
So the latest part of the soap opera that is Scottish football, revolves around James Anderson and Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford. Netflix should be recording…
FC Midtjylland’s video of their football drive-in which allows the driver and passengers in 2000 cars to watch their behind closed doors matches as Danish football…
A new writer on The Celtic Star this morning, what follows is James McKenzie’s debut on the site as he considers possible striking additions to the…
JONNY HAYES has had the last word on the decision to call the Premiership after just 30 games due to the Coronavirus. Celtic were 13 points…
THREE LEAGUE WINNERS are joined by one loser on the shortlisted nominations for the Football Writers’ Player of the Year Award of 2020. Celtic stars Odsonne…
KRISTOFFER AJER is certainly a player who is being talked about in Madrid at the moment. A week or so ago the remarkable news broke that…
CURRENT ASSISTANT MANAGER has been looking back to the arrival of Martin O’Neill as manager of Celtic twenty years ago today and from a personal point…
NEIL LENNON has moved onto when rather than if Odsonne Edouard leaves Celtic on a big money transfer. It’s fair to say that French Eddie, who…
