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
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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
Read more →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,
Read more →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
Read more →Well, after many trials and tribulations, we have now selected A Celtic State of Mind’s Cult Hero XI – a team that would strike fear into the hearts of many a Scottish Premiership defence, even at the age of some of them now! Here is the
Read more →Former New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra once observed that “baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” His maths might have left something to be desired but the sentiment was clear enough, and Celtic’s players have certainly had to draw upon their collective reserves
Read more →As floodlit skies are replaced with summer haze, fans and players who invest their heart and soul into Scottish football are taking stock of what has been a typically absorbing 11 months of passion and drama. This season wasn’t solely about the product on the pitch, though.
Read more →Some Celtic supporters are difficult to please. The expletives bellowed from behind my damp head at Hampden Park on Saturday had to be heard to be believed. They were aimed at Mikey Johnston, the (just turned) 20-year-old, who earned himself an invite for our treble treble-winning party
Read more →They often say that, with the benefit of hindsight, your vision is 20/20. For the 20,000 match-goers congregated on the slopes at Celtic Park on a wet December day in 1951, they may well have changed their whistles to cheers at the announcement of a new signing
Read more →Following one of the most memorable weekend’s in Celtic’s history, we finally complete our Cult Hero XI by debating what could be the biggest point of contention we have encountered to date in this series – who plays upfront? As well as the healthy discussion that has
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