A Celtic State of Mind

Andrew Rafferty with A Celtic State of Mind – Europa League Preview

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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The ACSOM Review: Shed Seven at O2 Academy, Glasgow

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

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The 500 Club with A Celtic State of Mind – Kevin Graham’s poetic tribute to an iconic #1 – ‘Big Packie’

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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Martin Donaldson with A Celtic State of Mind – Jimmy Johnstone’s Legacy Can Be Found at Cathkin Park

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

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Cup Final Reaction with A Celtic State of Mind – When Ten Men Won The Ten

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

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Cup Final Preview with A Celtic State of Mind – The Hoops are on course for 10-in-a-row

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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Celtic’s greatest League Cup Finals against Rangers

Celtic’s greatest League Cup Finals against Rangers Listen to the latest episode of the award-winning A Celtic State of Mind

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Martin Donaldson with A Celtic State of Mind – One Sunday in Madrid

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

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A Celtic State of Mind – As Celtic go two points clear, ACSOM looks back on a night of high drama

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

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The 500 Club with A Celtic State of Mind – Kevin Graham’s poetic tribute to the skipper – ‘Broony’

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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