I remember being at a League match with my Uncle Bartly at Somerset Park in Ayr around about 1970. Billy McNeill – Big Billy to his…
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Billy McNeill – Celtic Personified
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Faither – Ronnie Simpson, Celtic’s greatest ever goalkeeper
Mike Maher recalls watching Ronnie Simpson, Celtic’s greatest ever goalkeeper… I first saw Ronnie Simpson in February 1961 – playing for Hibs at Celtic Park. Even…
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In praise of Scott Brown, Celtic’s omnipresent anchorman
SCOTT BROWN has been at the centre of Celtic’s midfield since Gordon Strachan paid over £4 million to Hibs in the summer of 2007. In this,…
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Willie Garner selects his all time Celtic heroes
WILLIE GARNER looked back on his short but eventful Celtic career earlier this evening on The Celtic Star. Certainly anyone who was at Celtic Park for…
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“I scored two own goals on my Celtic debut then we won the 5- a-sides at Wembley,” Willie Garner
Once we heard the result on the radio, the 1967 European Cup win in Lisbon prompted me and a group of friends to run around the…
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”You’ve got to go, you’re from the same background as me,” Lennon’s advice to Martin O’Neill when Celtic came calling
NEIL LENNON can laugh about it now but at the time it was causing him severe heart-ache. The then Leicester City midfielder was desperate for a…