MUCH has been made in the broadcast media of what a magnificent World Cup “Brazil 2014” is turning out to be. I agree … to the extent that there have been some really great games, mainly of the David and Goliath variety, in which David has claimed most of the glory. There has been a…

RONNY DEILA has a huge job in prospect. The new Celtic manager has to hit the ground running, faced with the daunting prospect of starting to negotiate Champions’ League qualification in a matter of weeks, not to mention the rather complacent assumption that the league title is in the bag before a ball is kicked in…

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TONIGHT the Champions’ League Final takes place in Lisbon, the first time the world’s premier club competition will have climaxed in the Portuguese capital since Celtic made unrepeatable history in that great city 47 years ago, when the event was still in its purest form as The European Club Champions’ Cup What wonderful memories will flood the minds…

THE NIGHT Neil Lennon was appointed Celtic manager, he wandered out into the vast empty bowl of Celtic Park for some fresh air after a long day of negotiation. He later spoke of being struck by the eerie sight of moonlight shafting in over the stands, casting an aura of history and mystery over the…

TODAY, club legend, Billy McNeill cut the ribbon to officially open “The Celtic Way”, the magnificent new ‘Walkway to Paradise’ between London Road and the main entrance to Celtic Park. To mark the historic occasion, we publish our poem of the same name, based on Celtic’s proud tradition encapsulated in that immortal phrase. Hail! Hail!…

FOLLOWING the recent plethora of articles (including one on this site last month) concerning the fascinating 1867 encounter at Dublin docks between Celtic founding father Patrick Welsh and Willie Maley’s father, then a sergeant in the British army, we decided to give the story the trademark 25thMay1967 treatment. The significance of that curious affair to…

AS the world reacts to the death last night of Nelson Mandela, the response is overwhelmingly, though not exclusively, positive. Inevitably so. As a small part of the worldwide Celtic movement that instinctively stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the oppressed, we at 25thMay1967 today offer our take on a man and his mission, which remains a work-in-progress:…

TWO recent articles (one on the ever-informative Jim Craig CSC website, dealing with an early Glasgow Cup triumph … the other in the pages of the inspirational Celtic Graves Society, which cast fascinating light on one of Celtic’s less-celebrated ‘Founding Fathers’) caused my mind to drift back to the embryonic days of our club and…

WHEN it’s a statement of fact, that’s when. Yes, fholks, Rory Bremner can, indeed, pretend to be Tony Blair – and usually make a pretty decent fist of it, too. Quoting no less an authority than the (allegedly) “Heaven-taught plowman”, Robert Burns … whose humanitarian credentials, notwithstanding his institutional tendency, might well have attracted him…