Following the rollercoaster of emotions that was the Scottish League Cup final, Celtic travel to Cluj for the second time this season to play the final match in our 2019/20 European winter campaign. A draw or win will leave us undefeated and top of the group, a
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Who: Shed Seven Where: O2 Academy Glasgow When: 30 November 2019 Shed Seven then. I never owned a single record of theirs back in the day (the mid-90s for the non-Indie-Da’s among us). And back in the day you couldn’t listen to Spotify, YouTube or any other
Read more →We stumble and cut through the red light smoke, celebrating on Amsterdam’s cobbles, the air horns blare now as distant, as the thought of European Cup defeat. We dance a jig to Charlie and George, praise the pinstriped Bhoys, raise a toast to the velvet smooth
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Walking through the trees, catching a glimpse of the pitch with the lush green grass. A few steps more and what’s left of the steps of the old terracing come into view. Cathkin Park was not a ground I had been to before, with Third Lanark going
Read more →We are living in the best of times. Some of us have lived through the worst of times – those nine winters of despair back in the late eighties and early nineties when a victory in the Tennent’s Sixes was greeted with all the enthusiasm of a
Read more →ALAN MORRISON: Celtic look to win four consecutive Scottish League Cups for the second time in history. 1968/69 saw the Hoops thrash Hibernian 6-2. Stein’s side went on to win five-in-a-row, which is the record. If Celtic triumph, it will be 10 Scottish trophies in-a-row. Opponents The
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Read more →By the time that most Celtic supporters’ club buses had started the journey up the A9 to Dingwall for the lunchtime kick-off against Ross County, I was in a small cafe finalising my travel plans for the day ahead. Over the next 14 hours or so I
Read more →PAUL JOHN DYKES’ PLAYER-BY-PLAYER VERDICT: Fraser Forster The giant stopper memorably ran the length of Celtic Park to join in with the celebrations after Scott Brown’s winner. Whether his squad number denotes his height, the weekly wages he draws from St Mary’s Stadium, or the year of
Read more →Standing arms outstretched with no need to grandstand the exuberant fans dancing onto the pitch our own Christ the Redeemer with a glacial stare shaven hair the knowing know of leading by example and that talk is cheap a magnet of attention the
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