Football

Paul Gallagher with A Celtic State of Mind – “Celtic always played with a swagger… had numbers on their shorts… great songs, great football. No comparison.”

PAUL GALLAGHER, the older brother of Liam and Noel, was A Celtic State of Mind’s first ever guest back on 11 June 2017. Since then, Liam has made a Lazarus-like comeback, reemerging from the embers of Beady Eye, whilst Noel has released one further studio album –

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Andrew Rafferty with A Celtic State of Mind – Destination Paradise

“How are you getting to the game?” It’s a familiar question that thousands of us are asked every time we talk about going to see Celtic. Home or Away, domestic or in Europe, every match, every fan, every journey has its own story. Through the years I’ve

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Kevin Graham with A Celtic State of Mind – The Dogma of Tradition

In a previous life, I fancied myself as a bit of a fan activist and decided to dip my toe into those murky waters of ideals and reality. I decided that TV was the enemy of football purists and it was my goal to bring the broadcasters

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One from the ACSOM Archive: David Sleight – Celtic and Liverpool… A Tale of Two Cities

This article originally appeared as part of THE PENALTY SPOT BLOG series on 22 July 2019. “There is a finite amount of space in this boy’s head and too much of it is currently devoted to football.”  So read one of my school reports the thick end

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One from the ACSOM Archive: Kevin Graham – Are Red Bulls really only elephants?

The following article originally appeared on ACSOM on 10 October 2018: We need to deal with the elephant in the room. UEFA have dealt with it. Though, they dealt with it in their own nefarious way. Last year, the Red Bull Cousins, Leipzig and Salzburg, were on

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Kevin Graham with A Celtic State of Mind – Tommy Burns: Poetry in Motion

The voice of Kevin Graham will already be well known to listeners of the award-winning A Celtic State of Mind podcast. His poetry will also be familiar to readers of the Scottish Football Periodical, Nutmeg, and Irish Celtic fanzine, More Than 90 Minutes. Back in September 2018

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Andrew Rafferty with A Celtic State of Mind – The Benelux Bhoys

Over the years, Celtic have seen players from many nations pass through Parkhead’s gates to play for the Green and White. The excellent CelticWiki site states 51 nations have been represented at Celtic during the club’s 130-odd years’ existence, with England and Ireland (unsurprisingly) having provided the

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One from the ACSOM Archive – The remarkable rise of Scott Brown: The Ringleader of the Tormentors

This article was originally published on ACSOM on 25 September 2017: 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

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A Celtic State of Mind’s Decade of Dominance – League Match of the Decade

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

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Kevin Graham with A Celtic State of Mind – Nostalgia and Change

There are places I’ll remember, All my life though some have changed. Some forever not for better, Some have gone and some remain. In My Life – The Beatles Like most obsessives, football was introduced to me at an early age. The buzz of cup finals and

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