A Celtic State of Mind

How will Celtic approach this summer’s transfer window?

It is now three days since we witnessed a weakened Celtic side struggling against our closest rivals, Rangers. The dust has settled. We are still champions. We still have a Scottish Cup final, and potential treble, to look forward to. The 3-0 defeat has not derailed any

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The Celt who was sold from under his manager’s nose

In June 2007, Celtic announced the signing of an exciting Italian central-midfielder from AC Milan. A £10m signing for Milan in 2001, this 20-year-old prodigious talent was brought in from Atalanta, but his time at the San Siro never quite took off as he struggled for game

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The big Glasgow Derby refereeing decisions and were they called right?

Once again, we came away from a weekend’s fixture with plenty of talking points around the quality of refereeing in Scottish football. Not for the first time, the decision-making of the men in black has been brought into question. This is Scottish football after all, of course

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What can we take away from Ange’s post-match comments?

Ange Postecoglou was, quite rightly, extremely disappointed in defeat after Saturday’s game. The former Australian international didn’t shy away from the fact that his team were absolutely not at the races against Rangers at the weekend. As we have come to expect from Ange, we got a

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What Yuki Kobayashi must learn from his Glasgow Derby baptism of fire

Ange Postecoglou’s side have only registered two defeats this season in what has been a memorable, potentially historic, campaign for the Australian and his reigning champions. With 95 points out of a possible 105, this league season has been relatively error-free. However, Saturday’s defeat at Ibrox uncharacteristically

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Celtic’s line-up changes that didn’t work in the Glasgow Derby

Saturday’s defeat against Rangers saw Ange Postecoglou make three changes to the winning starting eleven he put out against Hearts. With two forced changes already made recently due to the injuries of both Cameron Carter-Vickers and Alistair Johnson, it begs the question, why make another three unforced

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36 years after ‘Shame Game’ but concerns are no longer about on-field indiscipline

As Celtic head to Ibrox for the final Glasgow Derby of the season, we decided to take a look back at a former player who had something of a chequered history against our city rivals. Frank McAvennie made a name for himself at St Mirren before moving

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As attendance record is shattered, have we witnessed the birth of Celtic’s Green Wall?

Last night in the SWPL 1, in front of a record Scottish crowd for a game of Womens football, Celtic heroically came back from 1-0 down at Celtic Park to beat Glasgow City 3-1. The visitors got off to a great start 20 minutes in when forward

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Are we about to see a return to the iconic ‘Black Magic’ kit?

It’s that time of the year again when supposedly ‘leaked’ kits begin to appear on social media and on some of the (magnificently maintained) football strip sites. I’ve always wondered if manufacturers deliberately leak jerseys to gauge the opinions of fans, but then how on earth did

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Abada and Hatate are both happy at Celtic. Let the rest of Scottish football let that sink in

Once again, the media are trying to prise players away from Celtic. It should come as no surprise, really, as the club has assembled a cornucopia of talent over the last few years. Recently Liel Abada was linked with a move away from the club, but the

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