This week Harry and St Anthony join up on a podcast to discuss the burning question - Ronnie Deila: Stick or Twist. Harry starts by comparing the league position with this time last year. Celtic are 3 points and 11 goals scored better off than after 18 points last year - surely sign of progress, but the bhoys go on and outline their concerns. After a few heated debating points along the way the agreed position is stick...for now. We shall see if this was the right thing to do. Have a great Chris...
Dec 22, 2015•1 hr 21 min
This week St Anthony is joined by Pat McGinlay. Pat grew up in Partick, Glasgow and was an outstanding schoolboy player captaining St Peter's Boys School in Partick and playing for St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill and Bearsden Boys Club. Though many Scottish clubs were watching his star performances as a schoolboy centre forward, he began his career as an apprentice with English club Blackpool but returned to Scotland to join Hibernian in 1987. He soon became an important part of Alex M...
Dec 09, 2015•30 min
This week we have the second part of the aduio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast; Paul Dykes - The Quality Street Gang Stephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron Man Stephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is thesecond part of audio from the evening. If you've not caught the first go to www.celticunderground.net to pick it up from...
Dec 01, 2015•1 hr 1 min
This week we have some audio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast; Paul Dykes - The Quality Street Gang Stephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron Man Stephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is the first part of audio from the evening with part two up over the weekend. Enjoy This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...
Nov 27, 2015•1 hr 4 min
This week St Anthony is joined by a legend of Scottish Football, Pat Stanton. In these modern times of high wages, as we have seen, players like Pat would never have stayed at Hibs for so long but...well he goes into all of that on the podcast. Stanton is the great-great nephew of Michael Whelahan, one of the founders of Hibernian FC and its first captain.[3] He signed for the club in 1963 and made his professional debut later that year.[4] He established himself in the Hibs first team, playing ...
Nov 17, 2015•57 min
This week the Celtic Underground team discuss cheating - wholescale, industrial cheating with the clear intent to defraud Scottish football, masterminded by a man hailed as business hero, but who was nothing of the sort. Knighted for services to business David Murray stacked up debts of £1bn with a £20m shortfall in his group's pension fund. And when this guy could no longer use his friends and contacts at HBoS to paper over the cracks of his business failures he then used the money of you and I...
Nov 12, 2015•1 hr 54 min
This week St Anthony is joined by a man who does not look to court the limelight yet has been an essential part of the Celtic fan story for over 20 years - Mr Brendan Sweeney. Many will have known of Brendan since his time at Celts For Change when he was a key member of the group which helped galvanise the fans into a movement which led to the transformation of our club. More recently Brendan has been part of The Celtic Graves Society and has just written a book entitled Celtic THE EARLY YEARS 1...
Nov 08, 2015•51 min
This week Harry meets up with Tony Hamilton (CEO) to discuss the fantastic work of the Celtic FC Foundation. Tony and Harry firt spoke about the work of the Foundation 2 years ago on the podcast and so Harry thought it was about time to catch up and get insight into the work being done by the foundation and specifically the forthcoming Christmas appeal. To learn more about the work of the Foundation log on to http://charity.celticfc.net/ The bhoys can be found on Twitter; @polishtunstile @Harryb...
Nov 03, 2015•38 min
This week St Anthony brings us another guest from the world of the Scottish Mainstream Media - Mr Gerry McCulloch. Viewers of STV and listeners to Clyde will be familiar with young Gerry as the the fresh voiced host of the long running radio football phone-in and occassional face of football on STV. Before Saint discusses all things football and media with Gerry we get a chance to wish Willie Keane all the best for his wedding on Saturday 24th October and also at the end is a wee clip celebratin...
Oct 24, 2015•55 min
This week Harry is joined by Celtic Legend Packie Bonner. Packie has a book coming out called The Last Line and Harry discusses is "lucky" career and the influences on him which led to making nearly 500 appearnaces for Celtic in 20 years. He was Jock Stein's last signing for the club when he left his native Donegal for the city of Glasgow in 1978, where Packie evolved from being a shy, homesick teenager into a confident, world-class talent and first-choice goalkeeper. Billy McNeill handed him a ...
Oct 02, 2015•58 min
The Old Rangers cheated and then went bust. We all know this, but what the press have not gone into are the final desperate attempts made by that old club to stave off liquidation and use all means, fair or foul, to cobble together enough cash to trade through the season. When they ran out of tax avoidance and evasion schemes, they simply gambled everything on achieving Champions League football. With the acquiescence or ignorance of the SFA they nearly succeeded. At the Celtic AGM of 2013 a gro...
Sep 22, 2015•1 hr 10 min
Last week we had Derek Rae on the podcast. We talked about his technique, love for the game and influences. His start had been via David Francy but there was one man who is perhaps, the most important sports broadcaster in Scottish sport history. I am of course talking about the legendary Archie MacPherson. Those of us of a certain age grew up with the luxury of football highlights of games by tea time Sunday with Sportscene on BBC1 and Scotsport on ITV, which Archie on the Beeb and Arthur Montf...
Sep 02, 2015•1 hr 8 min
After the loss to Malmo in midweek, everything online with Celtic got a bit hectic and frenzied with lots of gnashing of teeth and searching for a villain to pin the blame onto. With such a critical online atmosphere Harry decided that a more calming and measured perspective was required and therefore asked Hullbhoy, with his calming Hull tones to provide his overview. The bhoys started by discussing the Europa League draw and then moved on to review Tuesday. Harry asked who was to blame and wha...
Aug 28, 2015•58 min
This week Harry is joined by leading sports commentator Mr Derek Rae. This was recorded the morning after the night before and the first topic of conversation is the Malmo game, but the chat soon moves on to wider topics covering Derek's varied (by location) broadcast career. Derek started broadcasting for hospital radio at just 15 and as he goes onto explain, got a lucky break at 19 which resulted in becoming a lead commentator at Radio Scotland. Since then Derek has established himself in Scot...
Aug 20, 2015•1 hr 11 min
Scott Allen - Welcome to Celtic! Celtic have signed another Scottish talent and in the process managed to get three of their targets into one. Scott started his career at Dundee Utd - Tick Scott has been signed from Hibs - Tick Rangers fans were singing his name as they thought THEY were signing him - Tick and Ha ha ha ha ha With Celtic playing in Europe (West Asia Region) this past week Harry thought he should speak with some of the globe trotting Celts to get a feel for what is what like. Paul...
Aug 14, 2015•51 min
This week, fresh from getting 1 step closer to the Champions League we have St Anthony in conversation with another former Celtic hero - Joe Craig. Craig, a striker , joined Partick Thistle in 1972 from Sauchie Juniors. After an impressive start, scoring seven goals in his first twenty games, he helped the club to the First Division title in season 1975-76 . Joe signed for Celtic in September 1976 for £60,000 where he won the Scottish Cup and League Championship in his first season . He moved to...
Aug 05, 2015•1 hr 23 min
The domestic season starts on Saturday so there is one VERY important job to be undertaken before this begins and that is the unveiling of the Celtic Underground Committee's choice of top ten players for Celtic in Season 2014/15. Starting with a new manager with new systems and new ideas on players it was a challenging time for our election committee with few players feature as first team stand outs all term. A common point made by the voters was that the first 3 or 4 was easy, but after that ev...
Jul 30, 2015•1 hr 29 min
As we approach the start of a new season, St Anthony has a guest who reminds us that sometimes just one or two signings can be the difference for a team - Mr Billy Stark. Billy was your typical "good honest pro" in the Scottish game so hardly had the fans flocking to the front door when he signed for the hoops yet for many he became one of THE reasons Celtic won the double in our Centenary Season. Player at St Mirren, Aberdeen and Celtic among others, he also was famously part of the Tommy Burns...
Jul 24, 2015•1 hr 14 min
Just in time for the schools breaking up, the world's longest running football fans podcast brings you another feast of football chat to get you through the dearth of quality chat in a tournamentless summer (yes I know there's the women's thing but that doesn't count). This week Harry is joined by Grant Russell of STV, known to those on twitter as @STV Grant. The boys discuss Grant credentials as a real fan of a lesser team before getting on to the meat of the discussion...how they'd cover the g...
Jun 26, 2015•1 hr 48 min
You may be all just about to embark on your summer holidays with the prevailing sports of golf, cricket and tennis on the tv but football never goes away and neither does the worlds' longest running fan podcast! The last Scotland game was just a week ago but the Celtic players are back in training, the fixtures are out and the Champions League draw has been made so we know you want some football chat so your quest is fulfilled here with St Anthony in conversation with Graham Spiers, the man who ...
Jun 22, 2015•1 hr 23 min
It's milestone in more ways than one. We have now reached the end of the first season of the Ronny Deila era and it's also the end of the first 250 podcasts from Celtic Underground. Eddie may be still living in a cave but we still have enough regulars from the podcast to have a multi-cast review of Ronny's first term. Hullbhoy & Lachie passed on their apologies but we Harry was still joined by St Anthony, Mak Cooper, Mark Cameron and Lawrence Donegan to doscuss season 2014-15. The bhoys star...
Jun 04, 2015•1 hr 33 min
Steven Purcell has is a Celtic fan with a unique insight into the dramtic events in Glasgow and Scotland over these past 12 months. Steven got into politics during the turbulent times of the 1980's and became a Glasgow City councillor at 22 and leader of the City just 10 years later at 32. Close to Donald Dewar, steven was tipped to become the leader of Labour in Scotland before his high profile resignation and departure from public life. Before leaving the City council, Steven was the man who l...
May 28, 2015•1 hr 39 min
Following the jolly discussions of the Aberdeen game and the remaining fixtures this term, guest Mark Cameron shows his ruthless side by discussing the big changes he envisages for the first team squad. Some of his proposals are enforced with expected sales, whilst others are end of contract or fringe players whose disappearance tomorrow wouldn't be noticed. See if you agree with @leftybhoy on who will come and go... Enjoy On Twitter; @Leftybhoy @Harrybradycu This is a public episode. If you'd l...
May 17, 2015•49 min
This week Celtic Globetrotter Mark Cameron drops in for a chat with Harry. Their wide ranging discussion covers the joy of being champions at Pittodrie, how the manager will deal with the squad for the last two games and what the squad may or may not be after the (brief) summer break. It's such a long and wide ranging chat that Harry has decided to split the podcasts up into two bite sized chunks. Podcast 248a is about this season and part b will be along in a few days time where we look at next...
May 15, 2015•39 min
Last week we uploaded part I of the conversation between St Anthony and Andy Ritchie. Since that upload, both sides with whom Andy is synonymous (Celtic & Morton) have secured their respective league titles...magic! If you've not listened to 247(a) it's available from all the usual places. If you have then please enjoy the 2nd part... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com/subscri...
May 02, 2015•51 min
I pondered for a little while as to whether to call this a My Celtic Life podcast after all, Andy is a Morton Legend and only played a handful of games for the hoops but for those of us of a certain age you cannot think of players like Andy or Chcik Charnley and not think of the hoops they could have been. Andy had talent but he was also more in the Griffiths Tunnock Teacake world of fitness than the John Collins multi sit-up one. Whetever the reason he left Celtic early in his career and became...
Apr 29, 2015•54 min
This week Harry has just about calmed down enough to do a podcast dissecting the ICT fall-out. With more unsighted people in Scottish football than you'd find at a Ray Charles convention, Harry hops on Skype and chats with a man 8,000 miles away in Argentina - even he saw it - HANDBALL. The guys naturally discuss what happened and Harry TRIES to come up with a valid defence for 5 unsighted officials. After this the guys have a wider discussion on the team performance on the day before moving int...
Apr 22, 2015•1 hr 22 min
This week Harry is joined by a man familiar with listeners to BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound and formerly readers of the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday - Mr Tom English. Tom is a Limerick man and was a Limerick Utd and Liverpool fan growing up who pretty much stumbled across Scottish football when posted here in by the Sunday Times in the early 1990's. Over the course of a rambling hour and a half, the boys manage to fit in; Limerick Utd, Liverpool, the glory of your first game, lush green gra...
Apr 17, 2015•1 hr 38 min
A REAL St Mirren fan in the media - yes apparently there IS one and St Anthony has found him! This week St Anthony is joined by The Scottish Sun's Chief Football Writer Mr Robert Grieve to talk football AND Saint provides the bombshell right at the start that Robert IS actually a ST Mirren fan - yes a real live one - although a thought did occur that maybe that's why St Mirren's average attendance is so low, all the St Mirren fans are busy reporting at other grounds across Scotland.... I hope yo...
Apr 12, 2015•56 min
The hiatus of international football is over and so it's time to talk Celtic. Lachie Mor joins Harry to discuss the shooty-in exercise of the final Dundee Utd game and the squad in general. In addition to discovering that Lachie's best 11 contains a minumum of 12 players, the pair discuss the forthcoming triple and summer squad changes including Liam Henderson's loan move to Norway. There is a brief mention of the Ibrox lunacy before Lachie picks his starting 12 for the St Mirren game. Enjoy Thi...
Apr 02, 2015•54 min
