Since 2010, Celtic have won 8 league trophies, 5 Scottish Cups and 5 League Cups in what will be referred back to in history as the ‘Decade of Dominance’. With lots of glorious memories over the last 10 years, at A Celtic State of Mind we have
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A number of years ago, my brother and I challenged each other to find a local gig every couple of months in Glasgow. An opportunity to pay less than a tenner for live music, nothing that was going to break the bank, but the chance to see
Read more →Since 2010, Celtic have won 8 league trophies, 5 Scottish Cups and 5 League Cups in what will be referred back to in history as the ‘Decade of Dominance’. With lots of glorious memories over the last 10 years, A Celtic State of Mind have decided to
Read more →Conditioned, analysed, preened, molded, academy-trained athletes with hair weaves and tattooed sleeves: The archetypal modern day footballer… It’s a sign of the times – players are corporate commodity – and this fairly recent development more than likely sounds the death knell of the alluring cult footballer. Fans
Read more →Professor Phil Scraton recently appeared on A Celtic State of Mind to discuss the 31-year fight for justice of the Hillsborough victims’ families. Many will have read Professor Scraton’s criticisms of Boris Johnson in the pages of his seminal book, Hillsborough: The Truth. He also wrote a
Read more →It’s been a very strange time for us all recently and, with a lot of thinking time, what are the things at the moment that are crossing all of our minds? Our family? Our friends? Our job? Finding a job? Our current partner? Our ex-partners? Money? Our
Read more →In the Autumn of 1986 I received a gift of two baseball caps from my cousin. One was for the New York Mets, the other was the Boston Red Sox. The two caps represented the teams appearing in the 1986 Fall Classic, the two best teams in
Read more →It was pointed out to me recently that none of my friends are Rangers’ supporters, and I sat up all night pondering… until it dawned on me that I had had only one close friend who could be described as ‘a Hun’. All my other friends are
Read more →This week commemorated the anniversary of the beautiful, but heart-breaking story of the wedding between Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford. The events of the Easter Rising in 1916 thrust Irish independence and freedom from British hands back in to the world’s focus. Even with the great
Read more →World War II ended in May, 1945 – at last in Europe with the unconditional surrender of Germany, and the automatic reaction in Scotland was to celebrate with ‘a special football game’. It was arranged at short notice: Rangers and Celtic were invited to participate, the prize
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