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Oct 2, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
Well, no fan is going to pull a stunt like that when they could face such severe sanction in the courts... "Yeah, it was good of the jury, well done to them," Wilson says sarcastically of the leniency shown to Lennon's attacker who was sentenced to e ight
Continue reading 'Fevered pitch: Celtic return to Tynecastle'
Sep 24, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
SOMETIMES the result is all that matters, sometimes it can mask ills. Sometimes it matters a lot but cannot hide underlying problems. Yesterday Celtic got the three points they wanted to stay within four points of Rangers but they couldn't disguise all of...
Continue reading 'Celtic 2- 0 Inverness CT: Celtic make case for (new) defence'
Sep 12, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
AS A pre-amble to the arduous assignments ahead for Celtic in Madrid and Ibrox over the coming days, Neil Lennon might have felt the need to pinch himself at just how swimmingly the afternoon went for his side. Anything that could go right, did, as M ...
Continue reading 'Celtic 4 - 0 Motherwell: Well tormented by Forrest'
Sep 11, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
THE amount of money isn't always what matters most; it's often how it's spent that counts. Since winning the Europa League in 2010, Atletico Madrid have seen star performers dazzled by the bright lights of bigger clubs, with their striker, Diego Forlan ..
Continue reading 'Atletico Madrid v Celtic: New stars earn stripes'
Sep 11, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
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AS A pre-amble to the arduous assignments ahead for Celtic in Madrid and Ibrox over the coming days, Neil Lennon might have felt the need to pinch himself at just how swimmingly the afternoon went for his side. Anything that could go right, did, as M ...
Continue reading 'Celtic 4 - 0 Motherwell: Well tormented by forrest'
Sep 10, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
ONE of Scotland's most high-profile Catholics has warned that some of Celtic's fanbase is causing "untold damage" to the club's reputation by expressing support for international extremist groups. James MacMillan, the celebrated classical composer, said h...
Continue reading 'Celtic fans' militant drift 'damaging club''
Aug 27, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
TOMMY CRAIG will tell you he has never worked a day in his life. He has been involved in football for more than 40 years, kicked a ball about for nigh-on 60 but it has never, ever felt like work. "It's a hobby. It annoys me when I hear players say that it...
Continue reading 'Preview: St Mirren v Celtic'
Aug 21, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
SOME mightily confused conclusions were drawn from Scottish teams' latest European letdowns. Results that, wouldn't you know, are being presented as irrefutable evidence our game is going to hell in a handcart. Yet it makes absolutely no sense to bra cket...
Continue reading 'Sion v Celtic: Bordering on the ridiculous'
Aug 13, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
EVEN allowing for the absent legions at Dundee United, the transferred David Goodwillie and the stricken Scott Severin chief among them, this was always going to be a stern test of Celtic's mettle, a right old examination of their worth as potential ...
Continue reading 'Celtic 5 - 1 Dundee United: Celts have Commons touch'
Aug 13, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
The club has won the Swiss cup a record 12 times and has never lost a final. Their most recent triumph was in 1997, when they did the double, also winning the Swiss Super League with a record number of points. They had previously also won the title in 199...
Continue reading 'Celtic aren't bankers against Swiss'
Jul 10, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
Celtic yesterday made amends for last week's shock loss to A-League side Central Coast Mariners by defeating Perth Glory 2-0 in the second match of the club's pre-season tour Down Under. Striker Gary Hooper and defender Charlie Mulgrew scored either side ...
Continue reading 'Celtic have the edge on Glory'
Jul 2, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
NINE male and two female Celtic fans were arrested in Sydney yesterday for attempting to invade the pitch during the Glasgow side's fixture with the Central Coast Mariners. New South Wales Police confirmed that 11 Celtic fans among the 19,482 crowd were .
Continue reading 'Celtic fans held after defeat in Australia'
Jul 2, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
Part of the problem is that the director of football's role is ill-defined. Sometimes, the job now occupied by Smith has its value questioned, as it was by Celtic players who wanted to deal a little more with Kenny Dalglish, and a little less with John Ba...
Jul 2, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
After touching down in Australia this week, Celtic manager Neil Lennon admitted his future would be under a dark cloud if the Hoops failed to wrestle the Scottish Premier League title from O** F*** rivals Rangers this season. Whilst pre-season friendlies ...
Jun 19, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
Hemed, 24, was being pursued by several clubs, but Rangers had made him a solid offer and he was said to have been advised to come to Scotland by Celtic midfielder and fellow countryman Beram Kayal. The lure of La Liga is what is believed to have swung ..
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Jun 19, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
McLeish will back himself to weather the storm' There's a line that's put about by O** F*** managers, originating with Gordon Strachan and endorsed by Alex McLeish, that says the rigours of life at Rangers and Celtic prepare you for anything and everythin...
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Jun 18, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
So what do Rangers and Celtic go and do? Cancel "vital" league matches to play friendlies. Respectively, Chelsea and Inter Milan provide the opposition, and I'm prepared to bet my dodgems money that neither will operate at any more than 65 per cent ...
Jun 18, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
McLeish will back himself to weather the storm and win people round the way he did at Rangers when securing, in a period of downsizing, the first five trophies he competed for when up against Martin O'Neill and the best Celtic side since the Lisbon Lions.
Continue reading 'Tom English: 'McLeish will back himself to weather the storm''
May 29, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
In stark contrast to the myriad call-offs experienced by the other three nations involved in Dublin this week, the Scotland manager only had to deal with two withdrawals from his original squad, Celtic midfielder Kris Commons with a hamstring injury and .
Continue reading 'Scotland v Republic of Ireland: Craig Levein in raptures'
May 21, 2011 on Scotland on Sunday Online
It came from a Kris Commons left-wing cross that found Gary Hooper in a suspicious amount of space behind the Motherwell defence. Hooper thought he was okay and he might have thought he had a goal, too, when he stuck out his boot and flicked his shot over...
Continue reading 'Motherwell 0-3 Celtic: Lennon's Cup runneth over'