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…

In a desperate attempt to take something positive from last Sunday’s Ibrox debacle, I have come to the admittedly highly optimistic conclusion that when you hit rock bottom, by definition, the only way is up. Because that’s exactly what happened, as we plumbed the depths in that embarrassing second half. A Celtic that should have…

Yet again, a horrendous start made last night’s Europa League tie in Madrid a steep uphill struggle, courtesy of our now all too familiar “Soft-Centre Syndrome”. But for that nightmare opening, I feel sure we could have given the strutting senors of Atletico a real game – if only we’d got ourselves properly settled in….

When it comes to the Celtic, I’m a bit of an incurable romantic. Having been reared on a concentrated diet of fairytale history, I have always assumed that it’s only a matter of time until the next Hollywood moment, with Celtic taking centre stage, often in the most unlikely of circumstances … and largely speaking,…

It was chilling to read Billy McNeill’s bitter recollections of the infamous 1974 European Cup semi-final first leg at Celtic Park against Atletico Madrid. Clearly, that night has left him with indelible psychological scars – and no wonder! I was there … and 37 years down the line, it remains the single most brutal and…

Over the past nine months, we have run a series of posts outlining our notional “All-time Celtic Squad”.  This was a strictly broad-brush and totally tongue-in-cheek exercise, with absolutely no pretence whatsoever at being to any extent definitive or authoritative. Essentially, it has been a bit of harmless Celtic-minded fun, conducted from an entirely subjective…

… in the Europa League, that is! Seems things may be starting to swing Celtic’s way in the wrangle over qualification, with reports of unrest among Sion’s fellow Swiss clubs and also our prospective group competitors.  Reports that, in all honesty, instil some ambivalent feelings in yours truly. Being of a generation that considered European…