The UEFA Champions League: So… How Lucky Were Celtic?
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Posts Tagged: "Celtic"
Going South? Celtic & The English League System
It is one of the most commonly recurring stories of modern football. Should Celtic and Rangers be allowed to leave the Scottish league system and join the English football league...
A Celtic Encounter
Every so often events conspire to make us question whether there is indeed some footballing god directing proceedings from, somewhere. After UEFA’s initial decision to remove Swiss club FC Sion from...
Matters of Hearth & Home in the SPL
There exists evidence to the contrary that a man’s home is his castle. To begin, seeing as how there are so few men living in castles these days, owing to...
Learning to Beat Swords Into Plowshares Takes Time
An odd thing happened to the prediction that Celtic would break the GI Joe kung-fu grip Rangers have had on the Scottish Premier League trophy the past three years. Quite...
Ugly Goes Underground
Voices floating over Hadrian’s Wall after Sunday’s Old Firm derby sounded curiously, positive. Curiously positive in the sense that, with so much about Scottish football being accompanied by the sound...
An Old Firm Apology
According to the calendar, it is time to bash the first Old Firm match of this season. After all, ample material currently exists to do so just on their recent...
The Old Firm: Mea Culpa
The main hazard attached to stridency of opinion is that you are often wrong. Sometimes, my success rate is in line with a stopped clock. And it appears my suggestion...
Celtic & Rangers: Old Firm, Old Enmity, New Century
Imagine different circumstances surrounding Manchester United’s defeat at Liverpool last Sunday. Leave aside Jamie Carragher’s nasty tackle on Nani, Nani’s ability to race to the referee before collapsing in an...
Clearing Up A Few Loose Ends: Celtic, Portsmouth And (Briefly) Wednesday
It’s the football scandal of a generation. And it won’t go away. Colleen Rooney, photographed blatantly sipping a cool drink by a holiday swimming pool… while there’s a recession on!!...
Morris Woodman’s Tactical Chalkboard: Celtic
Morris Woodman is England’s most successful football manager. In 13 seasons in the crucible of the Zambian top flight, his team Spartak Thunderbolts are yet to lose a single game. ...
County Deepen Celtic’s Woes
When the draw for the Scottish Cup semi-finals was made all the talk was of Rangers and Celtic being kept apart for a potential Old Firm final. It hasn’t quite...
Old Infirm? The Further Travails Of Rangers & Celtic
Some ill-advised comments made by the Celtic chairman John Reid at last year’s club AGM may now be coming back to haunt him, as rivals Rangers seem to be coasting...
Celtic & Rangers Frozen Out Of The Premier League
The Premier League has decided that it doesn't want The Old Firm and the baggage that they carry with them. It may take a change of attitude towards their neighbours...
Phil Gartside’s Plan To Shaft English Football – Part 3
Ho hum. Phil Gartside is back, this time with his third version of a neat little insurance policy that will mean that his club and others like them will never...
Which Way Now For Celtic & Rangers?
The fact that Rangers and Celtic believe themselves to be too big for Scottish football is one of the oldest stories around but, as Gavin Saxton writes, their biggest problem...
Rangers & Celtic: The Decline Of The Northern Empire?
Rangers & Celtic played out the first Old Firm match of the Scottish league season yesterday. Recent results in Europe have led some to believe that there is a slim...
John Hartson
That retirement comes at such a young age is one of the curious contradictions of football. No sooner has a professional player reached his prime than he is sliding down...