Owen Archdeacon is a player who made a name for himself in the 1980s at Celtic but just couldn’t quite become a regular in the starting…
In his years from 1911 to 1925, Patsy Gallacher was generally reckoned to have been the best of them all. Those who saw him would brook…
Joe Dodds was one of Celtic’s best ever left backs. It is not a position that Celtic have even been short on – one thinks of…
“The Wee Barra” was little more than 5 feet tall when he joined the club in 1948, but it was soon observed that he was a…
Tommy McInally was a personality player in an age which badly needed one… He played for Celtic in two spells from 1919 to 1922, and from…
He may have been something of a ‘nearly man’ but John Divers was a fine player who was loved and respected by the Celtic supporters… John…
Neil had a remarkable Celtic career. Having played for Morton and Middlesbrough, he joined the club in spring 1953, too late to play in League games…
A decent goalkeeper can make all the difference and that’s exactly what Jonathan Gould did for Wim Jansen’s Celtic… A great goalkeeper can be the difference…
When Frank McGarvey left us in the early hours of 2023, he left memories of a great Celt and a really rather remarkable character. He won…
“No Road This Way” was the unlikely nickname of Willie Loney as well as the more obvious one of “The Obliterator”. He was possibly Celtic’s best…
There were few players who could divide the support as much as Yogi Bear could. On his day he was absolutely brilliant, a world beater and…
Not a dry eye inside Celtic Park 21 years ago today as the King of Kings waved goodbye after seven magnificent years playing for Celtic… It…
The nephew of Patsy Gallacher and father of John Divers III, this one was born in Clydebank in 1911 and was arguably the best of the…
Pat Crerand emerged in the late 1950s as a superb right half with marvellous passing skills, and the clear ability to “take a grip” of a…
They called him Tarzan. We called him Rico. Enrico Annoni – Celtic cult hero… Enrico Annoni or just Rico to the Celtic supporters was a popular…
There were times when one feared that Steve Chalmers would not make it. There was the feeling that the gentlemanly Chalmers, always well dressed off the…
This fellow radiated class. He was an Invernessian by birth, went to school in Aberdeen and came to Celtic from Tannadice in Dundee in 2015 when…
It was possibly the way he played for Ayr United in a game against Celtic at Somerset Park in August 1974 that drew Celtic’s attention to…
Jimmy Blessington was one of the truly great early Celts, along with Dan Doyle and Sandy McMahon, but is not so well known, mainly one feels…
Bobby Carroll was one of the “Kelly Kids” of the early 1960s of whom much was expected, and indeed much might have been delivered if they…
Frank Brogan was a grossly undervalued player at Celtic Park. When he went to Ipswich Town, Frank got a consistent run in the team, and Ipswich…
Willie Orr was one of the great early Celts, although he is sadly little known about now… He was born in 1873 and joined Celtic in…
50 years ago today – on 3 May 1975 – the playing career of one of Celtic’s most remarkable figures came to an end… Billy McNeill…
“Eckie Tamson” was a Buckhaven boy, and played for the Wellesley Juniors just like his namesake John Thomson, but Alec joined Celtic a few years earlier…
The career of Ronnie Simpson defied belief… The son of Jimmy Simpson of Rangers, he started off playing for Queen’s Park at the end of World…
Willie Wallace was one of Jock Stein’s many great buys… Stein certainly knew what he wanted in a goalscorer. He already had signed Joe McBride from…
Congratulations to the most decorated player in Celtic history, the one and only James Forrest. No one can ever again question his status as a bona…
Willie McStay was a Celtic great. Born in 1892, he first came to the club in 1912 but was immediately farmed out to Ayr United… The…
Bobby Evans, always distinguished by his red hair, played for Celtic between 1944 and 1960… He came from St Anthony’s as a forward originally, but he…
Joe Cassidy was a Celtic hero at a time when they needed heroes. The years immediately after the Great War were dire with poverty and so…