David Potter who has written about the Bhoy from Croy so many times on this site. Jimmy Quinn is perhaps David Potter’s all time top Celtic…
Sandy McMahon was Celtic’s first truly great player. A man of culture and wisdom with a wide knowledge of Burns and Shakespeare, Sandy joined the club…
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…
Paul Lambert was a superb player. He was mainly a midfielder but he take a good few goals as well, and he was a vital cog…
Stan Petrov is 44 today, oh how time flies. I can still remember him arriving in Glasgow as a fresh faced youngster who had just waved…
“Ten Internationals and Charlie Shaw” was the way that Celtic were described in the 1910s and the early 1920s, the implication being that the Celtic team…
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…
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…
In the purest footballing sense, Charlie Gallagher was one of Celtic’s best ever players. A brilliant passer of a ball, and with a brilliant wiggle of…
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…
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…
In my lifetime following Celtic (I can remember vividly from the 1987-88 season onwards) I can recall a few decent shot stoppers who have represented us…
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…
The word used often in the war years and immediately after was “utility”, meaning something that would do for the moment, like for example prefabricated houses…
The first John Divers has no blood relationship, as far as can be ascertained to the other two of the same name. He was born in…
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…
Bizarre! That is the only way to describe the Celtic career of Tony Cascarino which contained 30 games and lasted little more than six months. In…
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…
“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…
“Stan” is a regular pundit on television these days, and is as much loved by Celtic fans now as he was when he played for them…
Carl Muggleton was brought to the club by Lou Macari in 1994 from Leicester city. He wasn’t a big name by any means and was seen…
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…