Roy Aitken made his Celtic debut as a 16-year-old in a 2-0 victory against Stenhousemuir in the League Cup semi-final on 10 September 1975. By the time the club captain made his 672nd and final appearance for Celtic over 14 years later, Aitken had won 6 leagues, 5 Scottish
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Roy Aitken became Celtic’s youngest-ever player when he made his debut on 10 September 1975, aged just 16 years and 290 days. The teenager’s introduction was a low-key Wednesday night affair at Ochilview, where Celtic travelled to face Stenhousemuir in the first leg of the League Cup
Read more →During transfer windows, it is only natural for us to yearn for news of new signings. With social media creating a thirst for constant information and updates, football fans get to a point online where they almost demand that their clubs splash the cash. Cash isn’t a
Read more →A narrative around Celtic’s strength has been developing over the last week or so, with the suggestion being that the treble holders’ squad is in a weaker state than it was last season. Judging by some of the social media reaction from Celtic fans, many others are
Read more →Wim Jansen was unveiled to the media as Celtic’s eleventh permanent manager in 109 years on Thursday, 3 July 1997. It was a time of upheaval for the club, and their failure to win a league title in the preceding nine years was exacerbated by the fact
Read more →Sometimes you cannot help but look back. Sometimes the past comes up and annoys you like one of those insufferable fruit files that hang around bins. You try to swat it away, you feel your hand hit it but they then come back mob-handed, like bored teenagers
Read more →During Ange Postecoglou’s first year at Celtic, the quality of his recruitment was a major reason for the capture of a domestic double in the Australian’s debut season. Having inherited a squad in drastic need of an overhaul, Ange dipped straight into a market he was familiar
Read more →Grainy footage of George Best playing in Celtic’s world-famous green-and-white hoops has finally emerged. Images of the game, played at the Elizabeth City Soccer ground in Adelaide in 1989, had been circulating for years, leading to Celtic running a story back in 2020 about the Manchester United
Read more →A Celtic State of Mind today announced that the latest in our series of live events is with centenary double-winning captain, ROY AITKEN! Big Roy spent 17 years at Celtic, winning leagues and cups under Jock Stein, Billy McNeill, and Davie Hay. He was part of so many
Read more →Now that Ange Postecoglou has flown the nest to the land of milk and honey, we are left to brace ourselves for the aftershocks of a second Spurs raid. If there is one thing the last five days has taught us, it’s that Ange won’t consider the
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