How on Earth could we manage without them? Say, one morning we were to awake to a world without trace of a nation’s disgrace – would you choke on your breakfast cornflakes? How on Earth could we cope in their absence? Could a peepil-free set-up survive? Though the scaremongers boom … lurid prophets of doom…

Despite almost universal opposition, both within and out-with Holyrood, the SNP succeeded in steamrollering on to the statute book its vindictive bill effectively to facilitate the criminalisation of Celtic supporters in (at least) equal measure to those of an opposite persuasion.  The lunatics, it seems, may, indeed, have finally taken over the asylum. I’m sure…

We at 25thMay1967 have been reflecting on the recently reported new Sky/ESPN/SPL deal that is apparently dependant on a guarantee of at least 4 Celtic/Rangers games a season for the duration of the contract. If, indeed, that is the case, it’s that word “guarantee” that we find so intriguing. Just how, exactly, can the SPL…

RIGHT from the word “Go!”, the allegedly anti-sectarian “Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill” has been swathed in controversy … and no wonder. Opportunistically conceived, (at best) naively drafted and unwisely brought to the market with grossly indecent haste, it has been virtually doomed from the off.  Now, the latest sinister internal…

Deflation at the perilous position in which we find ourselves following the latest loss of a game we should have won comfortably (at Tynecastle, a week past Sunday) I have found myself strangely lost for words ever since.  To be perfectly honest, for the first time in over 50 years following Celtic, I found myself…

Nursing a justifiable sense of grievance after Thursday night’s Europa League mugging, it would be all too easy to set our sights on finding a way back into the group and the tournament. Understandable and commendable … but while the pursuit of justice and the restoration of our dwindling European reputation is a tempting prospect,…

When Neil Lennon promised to bring back the thunder, he meant, by producing a team playing the kind of traditional Celtic attacking football that would rouse the faithful to spontaneously thunderous vocal backing. He has been only partially successful on that front, with his squad (and it is, now, very much his squad) blowing hot and…

Seems Neil Lennon thinks the likely long-term absence of Kelvin Wilson is to be lamented. I beg to differ – it’s his short-term presence I’ve found lamentable. To be perfectly honest, I am baffled as to why Lenny pursued the Notts Forest reject so doggedly in the first place. So determined was our manager to…

I called yesterday for an emphatic League Cup win at Dingwall to lay to rest some of the ghosts of recent weeks. What we got fell a little short of emphatic, especially in a first half that showcased many of the recurring defensive frailties of recent times and heightened further my mounting concerns about Kelvin…