Vote now for A CELTIC STATE OF MIND as BEST INTERNATIONAL PODCAST at this year’s FOOTBALL CONTENT AWARDS: JACKIE ROBINSON In Major League Baseball there is one eligible number not permitted to appear on the uniforms of any team, and that is ‘42’. In 1997, MLB retired
Read more →
Vote now for A CELTIC STATE OF MIND as BEST INTERNATIONAL PODCAST at this year’s FOOTBALL CONTENT AWARDS: It’s Saturday 10am, the hangover from the Zoom quiz from the night before is kicking in, you stumble out of bed, desperate for a gasp of water… a mistake,
Read more →
Vote now for A CELTIC STATE OF MIND as BEST INTERNATIONAL PODCAST at this year’s FOOTBALL CONTENT AWARDS: Jozo Šimunović signed for Celtic on the last day of the transfer window in 2015. It was the first day in the post-Virgil van Dijk world that we found
Read more →
“There’s only one human race, Many faces, Everybody belongs here”. As I jumped into Gordon Strachan’s white BMW, these lyrics started playing and I instantly recognised the band performing them as James, a band who had been part of the soundtrack of my teenage years. Gordon started
Read more →I want to talk. Want to ask Ian many questions. But the lyrics of the song are going round and round in my head. They make sense; then they don’t make sense. Hell, this whole day doesn’t make sense. The crowds slow the taxi as we get
Read more →My feet are wet, almost as if I am barefooted walking in the Mersey in front of me. How did the Mersey end up in front of me? How did I end up here? There is menthol smoke blowing across my face and I become aware of
Read more →
The Glasgow Times published an article today in relation to a Planning Application which was made by the Jimmy Johnstone Academy on 10 March 2020. It is imperative when commenting on matters of public interest that the full facts are reported accurately. Unfortunately, this has not been
Read more →
A Celtic State of Mind will celebrate our third birthday on 11 June, and with that milestone just around the corner, the podcast has once again been named as one of the finalists for Best International Podcast at the prestigious Football Content Awards. Long-time listeners to the
Read more →Fate, up against your will, through the thick and thin, he will wait until you give yourself to him. We are getting strange looks, the dozen or so of us standing in front of the row of shops spotlighted by lights from the newsagent’s and baker’s windows.
Read more →
There will be no changing of the guard any time soon. No removal of Scottish football’s lynchpin from his hundred mile-high pedestal. Pretenders to his throne haven’t even earned the position of clown prince – they will have to earn the right to lace his boots before
Read more →