It was one of those annoying days when roadworks divert the bus off the main road to Celtic Park and compel you to take back roads,…
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How sad it was to have a write a tribute to the second Lisbon Lion to die in a week! Hard on the heels of Billy…
ON 28 APRIL 2011 we heard of the passing of Lisbon Lion Willie O’Neill. Willie was born in Glasgow on 30 December 1940, and this war…
On this day in 1868, Willie Maley was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, the son of a sergeant in the British Army. His family eventually…
JOHN FALLON is never slow to tell you that the job of the goalkeeper is the hardest in the game. He is certainly correct in that…
Cesar and Celtic: Part 2 – New Bhoys & floodlights… Hard to believe it’s already 12 months since we said our final goodbyes to the man…
Sometimes it is difficult to express in mere words the contribution of a man to the Celtic cause. From Stenhousemuir, Alec McNair joined the club in…
In recent years players like James McCarthy, James McArthur, John McGinn and Ryan Fraser all showcased their talents in front of Celtic before heading south. All…
On This Day in 2006 Celtic’s Greatest Ever Player Jimmy Johnstone sadly passed away. “I was always an entertainer. The pitch was my stage, the whistle…
LAST THURSDAY we started a new series on The Celtic Star. We asked club Historian and author of countless Celtic books, David Potter to select The…
JIMMY DELANEY is one of the many Celtic players of whom one must occasionally ask the question “Could this all possibly be true?” His career needs…
CELTIC GRAVES SOCIETY will tomorrow meet to celebrate the life of a true Celtic Star, the legendary wing wizard Jimmy Delaney and YOU are invited. These…
THE TOMMY GEMMELL CSC DUNBLANE celebrated its 20th Anniversary in April 2016 in at the Stirling Rugby Club. David Faulds, a member of the supporters club…
CHRIS SUTTON summed up the ‘Exclusive’ in the Sun that Liverpool were interested in James Forrest and were preparing a bid of around £8million. That’s a…
CONGRATULATIONS to Celtic’s Calvin Miller who is 21 today – Happy Birthday! Calvin was recently re-called from his season long loan at Dundee, perhaps a sign…
BRIAN McCLAIR was described by Sir Alex Ferguson as his best ever buy for Manchester United. And it certainly the case that Fergie’s gain was very…
The back corridor between the Boardroom and the tunnel entrance is one of my favourite spots at Celtic Park. The items displayed there are changed around…
Georgios Samaras has retired from playing to take up a boardroom role alongside his dad his Giannis, at his boyhood club OFI Crete. We’ve updated an…
“When life is denying you something, life is preparing you something better,” Dedryck Boyata posted on social media yesterday. We mentioned this within the article on…
CELTIC play Rosenborg later tonight and this morning we are looking back with a tear or two in our eyes, on a great Q&A interview from…
CELTIC are in European action tonight and this morning we are looking back with a great deal of fondness to a Q&A session that I did…
We started to look back at a great supporters Q&A I did with Tommy Gemmell in early 2013 earlier this morning, here is part 2… What…
TONIGHT Celtic will face the Norwegian Champions on the Champions League and we already know that if we win over the two legs we will play…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…