A brilliant Celtic thread today by French content creator @lexotalk on a Celtic legend (even though he never played a competitive game) Mohammed Salim is well…
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Tommy Johnson, sometimes referred to as ‘sicknote’ by some Celtic supporters, was despite his injury woes, a decent and popular player during his time at Celtic.…
The late, great David Potter started a feature of writing about a Player of the Day from Celtic’s illustrious history. In order to do continue that…
Celtic Player of the Day – Tosh McKinley… For Tosh McKinlay, it was a case of better late than never as far as signing for Celtic…
The late, great David Potter started a feature of writing about a Player of the Day from Celtic’s illustrious history. In order to do continue that…
Cornwall born Chris Morris arrived at Celtic from Sheffield Wednesday in July 18987 and left to re-join Middlesbrough in August 1992. In between that he had…
Billy McNeill signed Graeme Sinclair from Dumbarton for a fee of £65,000 on 12 August 1982. Sinky made his Celtic debut a fortnight later in a…
Donnie “Slasher “ McLeod was one of Celtic’s war heroes. He joined the club from Stenhousemuir as a centre half or a full back. He was…
One of the most committed Celtic players one can ever imagine, Peter played a great part in the intermittent successes of the 1980s (his debut was…
Charlie Napier was a truly talented footballer, much loved by the fans, and yet there was something rather disappointing about him as well. He earned the…
That Baggio tag haunted him, but Steve had a decent career… Steve Fulton burst onto the scene as a teenager in the late 1980s. He was…
No-one typified the great Celtic side of the 1960s more than Tommy Gemmell. He was a larger than life character with loads of swagger and arrogance…
Known as the “quiet assassin” because of his unobtrusive and yet very effective style of play, Davie Hay first really appeared in season 1969/70. He was…
Davie Provan was a great Celt, who achieved great things with Celtic, but at the same time was a very unlucky player who was forced into…
The young brother of Frank, Hugh O’Donnell, in spite of having a ready made Celtic name and even a song to himself, did not quite live…
Frank O’Donnell was a great player, but it was probably true to say that he never quite made it at Celtic Park. He came from Buckhaven…
Forever Young. Forever Johnny… Really strange the way things pan out sometimes. Back in September 2021, I was preparing to make the pilgrimage from Glasgow to…
There can be few players who have had more of an impact on Celtic than Alec “Eck” McNair from Stenhousemuir. He joined the club just at…
John Thomson, a familiar face was missing… John Thomson – "The Prince of Goalkeepers"💚28/01/1909 – 05/09/1931 pic.twitter.com/F4vG2525Rz— Li'l Ze (@LilZe_7) September 4, 2023 A shell-shocked-looking Celtic…
Bobby Petta’s Celtic career was an enigma. A player of superb ability as he proved on quite a few occasions, Bobby didn’t seem, for various reasons,…
A very complex character was George Connelly. In the first place, there was absolutely no problem with his footballing ability. This was first demonstrated at half…
Ramon Vega was a Swiss internationalist who had a very short stay at Celtic Park, but it was an eventful one. He arrived in mid-winter 2000/01,…
Few men contributed more to Celtic than the fair haired right half and captain Sunny Jim Young. An Ayrshire man from Kilmarnock, Sunny was playing not…
The circumstances of the death of John Thomson after an accidental collision with a Rangers player at Ibrox on 5th September 1931 are well known. Fewer…
James Welford is a remarkable character in Celtic history. He was the first Englishman to have won an English Cup medal and a Scottish Cup medal…
John McNamee could have been a great Celt. His problem was that he came at the same time as Billy McNeill, and John, though good, was…
It is very easy to underestimate the contribution of John Clark to the great Lisbon Lions side, but those who saw them are not likely to…
Willie McStay (II) was the elder brother of Paul, and was a more than competent defender for Celtic in the 1980s. Inevitably he is linked to…
It puzzled them as much in 1908 as it does now, but why did Alec Bennett jump ship from Celtic to Rangers? The usual reason about…
Arguments about who was the best Lisbon Lion are futile and even possibly offensive, so I will confine myself to saying that Bobby Murdoch was well…