The Celts Are Here

I still think that we must be positive, even if recent events may have resulted in this article being “a little uneven”.Well, it is what it is, as Americans might say.

The giant six-foot-seven stopper can also play centre-forward.

I have never met Peter Lawwell. And I don’t care to.

After a trying week for Celtic, one piece of news with the feelgood factor was the return of Emilio Izaguirre as cover for Kieran Tierney at left-back.It’s not at all hard to love Izzy and most fans do.A player who is never gave less than his all (as he noted himself) those years of flying down the left wing have not been forgotten by the fans and he left to real affection and well-wishing from the supporters.

Too often blaming the mainstream media gives an easy out to Peter Lawwell and the Celtic board.

The season has started – fairly well for Celtic – and yet, the Scottish mainstream media are awash with negative stories about the club.

Football predictions are great. They are usually made with not one iota of insight or expertise and are therefore usually wrong.On the plus side, the majority of people are blessed with an inability to recall the screeds of nonsense written before a season starts so it’s a relatively hazard-free pastime.But not for this blogger, dear reader (sorry!).

In one of the most embarrassing misjudgements made even by this blogger, the defensive partnership of Jozo Simunovic and Dedryck Boyata was tipped as one to watch develop, a ball-playing defensive rock, powerful and calm, and one capable of holding its own against Europe’s elite clubs.

I have a pal (really), Eamon, who has devoted most of his adult life to socialism.

Anyone who reads this irregularly-published blog more than twice a year can tell you that I never shy away from saying, “I told you so”.I make no apology for doing so as I simply have a near-perfect memory for those occasions on which I have been proved right.A cynic might suggest that’s because they are so few in number but that’s not true.In fact, they are too many to count on the free fingers of my hands while I type this.One of those times was my enthusiastic support for Scott Brown, from the outset...

You’re already fed up hearing about Kieran Tierney leaving Celtic and so am I – but some issues need to be addressed.

Congratulations, Stuart – you have finally got that move to headier climes that you have been angling for for at least a year.

I am not going to start by sympathising with outgoing Scottish Football Association director, Gary Hughes, even though I don’t believe that he did anything wrong by calling Rangers fans “the great unwashed” in 2006 – long before he was employed by the SFA.What he said in that interview, so conveniently uncovered by The Rangers, (the original Rangers having been put into liquidation six years after the quote), was a silly joke...

I am not going to start by sympathising with outgoing Scottish Football Association director, Gary Hughes, even though I don’t believe that he did anything wrong by calling Rangers fans “the great unwashed” in 2006 – long before he was employed by the SFA.What he said in that interview, so conveniently uncovered by The Rangers, (the original Rangers having been put into liquidation six years after the quote), was a silly joke...

I am not going to start by sympathising with outgoing Scottish Football Association director, Gary Hughes, even though I don’t believe that he did anything wrong by calling Rangers fans “the great unwashed” in 2006 – long before he was employed by the SFA.What he said in that interview, so conveniently uncovered by The Rangers, (the original Rangers having been put into liquidation six years after the quote), was a silly joke...

I am not going to start by sympathising with outgoing Scottish Football Association director, Gary Hughes, even though I don’t believe that he did anything wrong by calling Rangers fans “the great unwashed” in 2006 – long before he was employed by the SFA.What he said in that interview, so conveniently uncovered by The Rangers, (the original Rangers having been put into liquidation six years after the quote), was a silly joke...

I am not going to start by sympathising with outgoing Scottish Football Association director, Gary Hughes, even though I don’t believe that he did anything wrong by calling Rangers fans “the great unwashed” in 2006 – long before he was employed by the SFA.What he said in that interview, so conveniently uncovered by The Rangers, (the original Rangers having been put into liquidation six years after the quote), was a silly joke...

I missed out on Lisbon. I was too young to appreciate nine-in-a-row.

There is no better time to deliver good news for the club and the fansI had been pondering writing a blog in anticipation of Tom Rogic joining an English Premier League team.Roughly, the outline was this: we we could prosper without him (because we could), we have a lot of attacking talent (which we have) but that my strong preference would be for him to stay because he has qualities that are bettered by very few in the game (and he has).But, at 25, just coming into what should be his football peak, I cou...

Yesterday, the Twitter account associated with this blog @theceltsarehere posted this “screen grab” of one of those infamous statements from The Rangers...