DEBUT DAYS – PAT STANTON
In September 1976 Jock Stein surprised the Scottish football world by signing Pat Stanton from Hibs. Stanton was the noted Hibs’ captain who had…
YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the first time I witnessed a Celtic game versus Rangers. On 11th January 1977, Jock Stein’s team faced…
1981 AND ALL THAT….
The late months of 1980 were not a good time for Celtic. In October they crashed out of the European Cup Winners cup to…
DEBUT DAYS – GARY GILLESPIE
17 AUGUST 1996 CELTIC 4-1 FALKIRK Gary Gillespie signed for Celtic in a fanfare of publicity for £925,000 in the summer of 1991. He…
BOOK REVIEW – HOOPS STARS AND STRIPES
Hoops stars and stripes is the new autobiography of Andy Lynch, the popular Celtic player of the 1970’s. The book is written by the…
DEBUT DAYS – RAMON VEGA
CELTIC 6-0 ABERDEEN 16 DECEMBER 2000 Martin O’Neill arrived as Celtic manager from Leicester City in the summer of 2000 and made an immediate…
BOOK REVIEW – KENNY OF THE CELTIC
REVIEW BY DAVID POTTER Stephen Murray is emerging as one of the better Celtic historians, especially as far as the strange decade of the…
DEBUT DAYS – MARK VIDUKA
27 FEBRUARY 1999 CELTIC 2-1 DUNDEE UNITED In August 1998 Celtic were defeated 3-1 on aggregate by Croatia Zagreb in the final Champions League…
DEBUT DAYS – MARC REIPER
13 SEPT 1997 MOTHERWELL 2-3 CELTIC When Wim Jansen took over as Celtic’s ‘Head Coach’ in the summer of 1997, he made it a…