Lenny promised to bring back the thunder, to restore something precious we’d lost. Critics tried to imply something sinister … why? … – ’cos they dreaded the thought of being bossed. When the Celtic are focused and flying, there’s a spark that ignites the old ground – like the Jungle of old, today’s stands, big…

Has any other figure in the game so comprehensively defined an age and writ his name as large upon the page as big Jock Stein – to many minds the greatest single Celt there’s ever been? The Big Man, ostracised by kith and kin because he wouldn’t toe the bigot line, in time embodied everything…

A statue of Jock Stein, to many minds the greatest single Celt there’s ever been, will be unveiled outside Celtic Park before the game against Hamilton tomorrow. A visionary, a man before his time, big Jock replaced the eight-year vale of tears that followed on from our historic “7-1” triumph, with a dominance unknown for…

A colossus is a giant … you’ll have heard of the one at Rhodes. Well, Celtic had our own, back when, o’er our famous ground he strode. Although not thirty metres high he would dominate any foe … and to his sweet, compelling tune, every game would ebb and flow. Great performances orchestral, be it…

Every Celtic fan knows that our great club was founded in 1887/88 to help alleviate extreme poverty in Glasgow’s east end parishes, which were largely populated at the time by the forced emigrant victims of the Great Irish Famine (an Gorta Mór) of the mid-nineteenth century and their descendants.  During and in the aftermath of that human catastrophe, millions either died…

Were you there when it all came together and we ran the Mob ragged all day? As the Huddle broke out, they were left in no doubt that the Celtic were up for the fray. o/ Were you there when it all came together and we closed ranks as never before? As we huddled and…

Tangible proof, if it were needed, that Gordon Strachan’s ill-advised, albeit carefully considered, comments this past week will be turned directly against Celtic, came when Walter Smith used them to support his hardly surprising view that the idea of anti-Celtic bias in Scottish football is a myth. The spin being applied is interesting and disarmingly simple.  Pained…

Every city can boast a big ‘Derby’, where the rivalry’s keen, fierce and tough; but in Glasgow it hums, to flutes, whistles and drums – and know what? I just can’t get enough! It’s been dubbed the ‘Old Firm’ – but I hate that, ’cos it’s steeped in sectarian guff; and it makes me feel…