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…
“Teddy Bear” Tom puts up the shutters … FOR CELTIC!
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…
1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon’s Estadio Nacional
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]
ECWC Shame Game Rapid Vienna
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…
Exiles Dream
From the outset, Celtic has been an inclusive club, always priding itself on being “The People’s Club”. Although founded by a nineteenth century Irish Catholic headmaster, the legendary Brother Walfrid, and mainly supported by Scotland’s Catholic immigrant Irish population and their descendants, it was never an exclusively Catholic organisation… [podcast]http://www.25thmay1967.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/25thMay1967-Ep-2.mp3[/podcast]
The Celtic Story
The Celtic Story is a story that grows in the telling – inspiring and heart-warming, it is guaranteed to stir the souls of the Celtic-minded. The sign above the main entrance to Celtic Park proclaims 1888 as the year the club was founded; and that is the year from which all the important anniversaries have…
Celtic History Snippets
The history of Celtic Football Club is littered with tales and ballads in either celebration or mourning of the highs and lows, triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures of a hundred and twenty-plus years of roller-coaster competition. No club has a richer cultural heritage of fact, fantasy, myth and legend, of poetry, song and story…
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