Celtic has long been known in Scottish Football for its youth development system. Players like Dalglish, McGrain, McStay, Macari, Burns, the list goes on and to this day the club is still developing great talent who will either star for Celtic or showcase their talents in other
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It happened well before Ryan Kent equalised in the 63rd minute. Scott Sinclair had missed a chance to put us two-nil ahead and that might have changed the feel of the game. The feeling was similar to our last home game against Aberdeen. A highly charged
Read more →Sporting greats throughout the years have made the most of this very unique talent. It’s not taught on the training ground nor is it learned by running a drill over and over again. Only by understanding your opponents’ strengths and weaknesses can this art-form produce the desired
Read more →As of writing this (26 March 2019) it has been exactly one month since the lure of the silver dragged a man from his “dream job” to mid-table mediocrity in the so-called ‘Greatest League in the World’. Reliable Neil Lennon stepped into the Parkhead hotseat and, though
Read more →The quest for the Holy Grail of Scottish football is still well in sight for Celtic, and the man who has been the constant leader and true hero throughout this run is our iconic, invincible, irreplaceable captain – Scott Brown. As I have grown up and gone
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 →There was a Twitter thread the other day about the players with the biggest potential currently signed up with Celtic. What was most heartening was the number of different names being mentioned. Calum McGregor, Ewan Henderson, Karamoko Dembele, Mikey Johnston and Kieran Tierney. But in amongst those
Read more →Few people know Billy McNeill better than Mike Jackson, who played alongside Billy with Celtic in the late 1950s, and who has been close friends with him ever since. Mike spoke to Tom Campbell on 29 November 2018, one day after he had visited Billy… Q.)
Read more →Billy McNeill was a fierce competitor but, despite that, remained a true sportsman… as this excerpt suggests. It comes from Eric Weill’s match report on the flawed World Club Championship series in 1967. Eric Weill was the principal football writer for The Buenos Aires Herald (an English-language
Read more →“To tell the truth, not just to be first.” According to multi-Oscar-winning actor, Denzel Washington, this should be the raison d’être of the media. The Hollywood A-lister should know, having been a leading light in the notoriously ruthless movie business for over 40 years. Washington was at
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