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
BRENDAN RODGERS looks set to take up Celtic’s option to sign Odsonne Edouard from Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season. The hugely talented teenager…
BRENDAN SAID: On the destination of the title: “This is obviously a big step, nine points clear with a game in hand but still a lot…
FIVE THREADS on Follow Follow for you to enjoy. Here’s the headline and the opening message, nip in and check the pain and suffering… 1. Mentally…
In all the long list of Celtic wins at Ibrox, this one must stand very high indeed. Not that the last half hour was an easy…
1. Scott Bain – The 26 year old made his claim for the first pick place at Celtic with a fine display this afternoon. As Celtic…
SKY SPORTS risk being banned from Ibrox, just like the national broadcaster, the BBC after offending today’s host Club – as Celtic described them on Friday…
Scott Bain is starting today. On Friday we told you that there would be a BIG SURPRISE in the team today but we didn’t want to…
On this day in 2001, Celtic took another step towards the treble when Henrik Larsson scored the only goal of the game against Hearts at Parkhead…
A FULLY FIT PADDY ROBERTS “I’m fit and looking forward to Sunday. The injury itself took quite long to clear up so it has been about…
27 August 1983 won’t be remembered too well in the long history of Celtic football club, but for me it will always be remembered as the…
1. On 10 March 1906 Celtic clinch their sixth League Championship and their second in succession as they beat Queen’s Park 6-0 at Hampden. 15,000 are…
CULTURE It’s strange that only left feet are considered ‘cultured’ in a football sense. Think of Tommy Burns and Jim Baxter, for examples. I don’t recall…
1. FIRSTLY BRENDAN SAID…“I was always taught ‘Be careful what you wish for’. It tells you they expect to win and their supporters will clearly expect…
CELTIC’S bad luck with injuries this season took a turn for the worse at the end of January when long-term first-choice goalkeeper Craig Gordon, was injured…
It wasn’t quite like living the dream, but something close to it. Walking through the main entrance of Celtic Park. Being met by a Celtic official.…
In the final part of The Celtic Star’s review of Jock Stein’s Celtic, David Potter looks at Stein in the transfer market. Jock Stein’s dealings in…
1. BRILLIANT, BOYATA IS BACK. The Celtic Star stated earlier this week, that Dedryck Boyata would start on Sunday after fully recovering from the injury picked…
RANGERS have formally requested that Celtic fans do NOT hang banners over the front of the top tier of the Broomloan Stand on Sunday afternoon. This…
Earlier today I met up with former Celtic player Dougie McGuire. Dougie played for Celtic in the 1980s, although he only managed four competitive games for…
CELTIC paid £3 million for him in 2013 and there have been a right few bad signings over the years, but Derk Boerrigter takes the biscuit…
SINCE 1921, Ibrox on New Year’s Day had been a bogey. Some draws, and a few wins when the New Year fixture was played on the…
IN The Celtic Star Podcast Extra Kevin Graham had a very interesting chat with Alan Morrison, the man behind Celtic by Numbers. Alan provided a statistical…
I was born into an east end of Glasgow in Shettleston, into a Catholic, Celtic supporting family on 22 February 1947. My earliest Celtic memory was…
A week is a long time in politics, it’s been said, though a week must seem a helluva lot longer when you are the victim of…
THEY have a name for it, on their forums. It’s something that is often discussed after they have suffered another defeat from Celtic or have watched…
STAN COLLYMORE hasn’t always been a Celtic man but has discovered Celtic on life’s journey and the more he learnt about the ethos of our club…
BRENDAN RODGERS has heard it all before. The background noise ahead of a big game is something that he doesn’t encourage in his own squad as…
KRISTOFFER AJER is looking forward to playing at Ibrox on Sunday lunchtime and plans to keep the league’s top scorer so far this season quiet. The…
THE squad that I joined was full of die-hard Celts – Paul McStay, Peter Grant, Roy Aitken, Pat Bonner, Tommy Burns – and they showed me…
Being in the army meant that my dad travelled around a fair bit in the sixties and seventies, and I was born in Oswestry as a…
