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The 500 Club with A Celtic State of Mind – Kevin Graham’s poetic tribute to Roy Aitken

Feed the Bear The mass of bodies swell and roll like a tidal sea as a lone voice shouts “Feed the Bear.”   Then another. Then another.   As more join in the three words speed, like a train picking up pace, reaching a high-pitched climax from

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Pre-match with A Celtic State of Mind – A reacquaintance of the Pretty Greens

PAUL JOHN DYKES: Neil Lennon has managed the threat of a European hangover well for the visit of Hibs by playing a shadow side against Cluj on Thursday night. When the squad departs Glasgow Airport on Wednesday afternoon and arrives back in the early hours of Friday

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Europa League Post-Match with A Celtic State of Mind – Player-by-Player Ratings from Transylvania

Craig Gordon A first-choice when Brendan Rodgers was at the helm, Craig Gordon has found opportunities under Neil Lennon few and far between. Since returning as manager 10 months ago, Lennon has selected the experienced Scottish cap only fleetingly. With Fraser Forster being rested for the trip

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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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