(Celtic’s First “European Cup” Win?) Celtic’s first “European Cup” win? No, it’s not the Lisbon story again – though, for those of a certain vintage, that’s a story that doesn’t lose any of its appeal in the re-telling. Celtic very early embraced the challenge of spreading the football gospel; and by the turn of the…

The finale to the 1931 Scottish Cup Final was one of the most dramatic of all time and led to one of the strangest situations in Scottish sporting media history. Celtic were well and truly up against it, 2-0 down and just six minutes, or so, remaining, with Motherwell, deservedly ahead and ill-advised to have…

Depending on your point of view, John Glass, one of the principal founding fathers of Celtic Football Club, was either a far-sighted visionary, who foresaw the huge potential of a successful Irish community club in Scottish professional football, or a cynical opportunist, who distorted and exploited both Brother Walfrid’s charitable idealism and Hibernian’s benevolent naivety,…

Everyone knows the story of the supposedly unsinkable “RMS Titanic”, the ill-fated White Star Line vessel that struck an iceberg and sank on 14th April 1912, four days into its maiden voyage. Not so many, though, will be aware of the spooky link between the Titanic and Celtic, through its sister ship, “RMS Celtic”, which…

The story of how the magnificent Glasgow Exhibition Cup comes to be part of the collection of permanent trophies housed at Celtic Park is a classic example of grabbing a second chance with both hands. Ironically … amusingly, even … as its inscription tells, Rangers originally won it, beating Celtic in the bruising final of a…

The iconic “Hoops” we supporters all know and cherish have not always been Celtic’s trademark. They were, in fact, pioneered by the old Edinburgh Hibernians, who were the original football standard-bearers of the Irish immigrant population of Scotland, until they became defunct in 1891. Celtic subsequently adopted green and white hoops as their traditional home…

Who’s that leading out the ‘Gers? Stories are ten-a-penny about Celtic’s iconic Irish star of the 1950s, “Cheeky”  Charlie Tully. Surely one of the most surprising, though, is that of the night the  ‘bould’ Charles Patrick CAPTAINED a Rangers select as a guest in a friendly to  mark the hanseling of a new floodlighting installation…

The Celtic Story is littered with bizarre episodes of one sort or another – but  surely one of the strangest is the tale of an on-loan goalkeeper in the early part of  the twentieth century. Of all clubs, it had to be Rangers’ reserve goalie, Tom Sinclair, who came on loan  to Celtic in August…

In the days and weeks leading up to the 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon’s Estadio Nacional, all roads led to the Portuguese capital. An official motorcade from Glasgow was just part of a mass evacuation that saw 50,000 Celtic fans descend on Lisbon by road, train, boat and plane…. [podcast]http://www.25thmay1967.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/4.-Estadio-Nacional.mp3[/podcast]

The 2009/2010 Europa League fixture list rekindled haunting memories of one of the most controversial incidents in Celtic history. The draw paired Celtic with Rapid Vienna in a Group Stage match at Celtic Park on Thursday 1st October 2009. It would be a potential powderkeg, threatening to re-open old wounds that were inflicted during and…