May 1983, Rangers 2 Celtic 4: “There’s something very special about this club,” Billy McNeill… Morton were the visitors for the last home game of the…
April began more positively, visitors Motherwell disposed of by three goals to nil, McGarvey, McAdam and a Harrow own goal doing the damage. Willie McStay made…
First up in February 1983 was a third visit to Tannadice, scene of an earlier defeat for Celtic in the League Cup Semi-final and the classic…
Former Celt Tommy Docherty had replaced Bobby Brown as Scotland manager by the time the qualification phase commenced for the 1974 World Cup Finals, to be…
Celtic’s Kieran Tierney scored the decisive goal that won Scotland a place at next summer’s World Cup Finals which will be played across three nations in…
Celtic’s Kieran Tierney scored the decisive goal that won Scotland a place at next summer’s World Cup Finals which will be played across three nations in…
Matt Corr has been taking us back to Celtic’s season 1982-83 and over the last week or so the first half of that eventful season has…
It’s goodbye to Europe and hello to Champagne Charlie – Celtic’s season 1982/83 (Part 5) by Matt Corr, the links to the first four parts in…
The fresh young Princes of Parkhead make their mark, as a Celtic legend bows out – Celtic’s season 1982/83 (Part 4)… This is Part 4 of…
A night of glory in Amsterdam – Celtic’s season 1982/83 (Part 3)… For the third consecutive calendar year, European royalty visited Celtic Park in the Champions…
Oh Hampden in the rain…the end of an eight-year hoodoo – Celtic’s season 1982/83 (Part 2)… With the pre-season tours to the USA, Germany and the…
This could be Rotterdam or anywhere…Celtic’s 1982/83 season (Part 1)… Less than three months after Chicken George and the Blessed Tommy had lit up Celtic Park…
Matt Corr has been taking us through the 1981/82 season in what turned out to be a 5 part series. That concludes this evening… Chicken George…
Matt Corr’s account of Celtic’s 1981-82 season continues below. This is part 4 of a 5 part series, with the concluding feature to follow this evening……
Very occasionally, as a researcher you stumble across a real nugget. A proper find. Something that makes all the hours invested worthwhile. Yesterday, I had one…
John Ferguson. A Dalmuir boy who lived the dream… It started with a post! I love it when a chance comment or article leads to the…
Today marks the 91st birthday of one of our oldest former Celtic players, the lovely Billy Craig… Born in Shettleston on 1 November 1934, Billy was…
Floodlight failures and flute bands – Celtic’s Season 1981/82 (Part 3)… Matt Corr has been working his way through a comprehensive season review for season 1981/81.…
Another sad farewell to another darling Johnny – Celtic’s Season 1981/82 (Part 2) There was no Italian Job hangover for Celtic on the first Saturday of…
We had a great close-season in the Northern Area Celtic club in Springburn in 1981, basking in the afterglow of a tremendous championship-winning campaign… Fergie’s brief…
Matt Corr’s wonderful three-part review of Celtic’s 1980-81 season concludes this morning as we celebrate Celtic in the Eighties and the late David Potter’s final Celtic…
‘A forlorn hope that the flag would be flying above the Jungle,’ Season 1980/81 (Part 2)… Back on League business, there were comfortable wins against Partick…
When Matt Corr’s Celtic in the Thirties books was published last autumn we held in reserve a wonderful series that David Potter had written about Celtic…
It’s here – Celtic in the Eighties by David Potter, with a very special foreword from Danny McGrain and a lovely message to the Celtic support…
Was this the last photograph taken of John Thomson, Celtic’s Prince of Goalkeepers? In recent months, I have shared some incredible photographs from the collection of…
Another bittersweet couple of days for the Celtic family this week… Yesterday we said farewell to the wonderful man that was Pat Woods. As you…
The Original Holy Goalie – Part 2: John Fallon living the dream as a young Celt before injury strikes… After nine months of reserve football at…
This week’s ‘In Conversation’ podcast on Celtic Underground is an emotional one and it’s free for all supporters to enjoy, and enjoy it you will! In…
Happy Heavenly Birthday to the Original Holy Goalie Part 1: Early days What a time this has been recently as we said farewell to so many…
So many lovely words spoken by the folk who knew and loved Pat Woods since news broke of his sad passing on Monday evening that it’s…
