Football

There was a moment when I felt sorry for Neil Lennon. There he was facing the press in a hastily arranged press conference on a Friday afternoon. There weren’t thousands filling the stadium to greet him. The world’s press were all in Madrid. He had arrived from

Next Wednesday, on the 10th of June, Scotland’s football supporters will celebrate a rather disappointing anniversary. The arrival of June marks 21 years since Scotland opened the 1998 World Cup in France with a 2-1 loss to eventual runners-up Brazil. On the face of it this is

“This is our Lisbon,” pointed out Ellen Mannens, when discussing the book she is writing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dutch football’s first European Cup win. Ellen is a Dutch journalist, who claims she has an incurable Feyenoord disease. She writes for ‘Hand in Hand’, which

As the song, to the tune of Dirty Old Town, goes down Anfield way: “He’s our centre-half, he’s our number 4, watch him defend and we watch him score, he’ll pass the ball, calm as you like, he’s Virgil van Dijk, he’s Virgil van Dijk.” Virgil van

Tom Campbell, a few weeks ago, wrote about the meeting of two proud men, Billy McNeill and Roberto Perfumo, after “The Battle of Montevideo“. This inspired Kevin Graham to write a bit of prose about this exchange and what both men were thinking at this time. He

A Celtic State of Mind have always embraced the club’s love affair with music, and this has resulted in us recording four acoustic sessions over the last two years. All 14 tracks are now available on this week’s ACSOM podcast, ‘Acoustic Sessions: Volume 1’. LIAM MCGRANDLES, who

Over the years, Celtic have had their fair share of dominant sides in Scottish football. Jock Stein’s side of the ‘60s and ‘70s were consistently involved at the business end of European footballing campaigns, while on their way to securing nine league titles in-a-row. Our current stretch

Looking to your left, you see the Albanian leader, Rudi Vata. The asylum seeker who fled the country of his birth for France while on international duty. This is the figure who signed for Liam Brady’s Celtic and was paraded alongside record signing Stuart Slater in 1992,

I’m surprised that there aren’t more millionaires in this world, as people seem to be able to predict the future with great certainty and in great detail. Of course, opinions are fine, but for anyone to plunge themselves into a wormhole based on opinion, not fact, would