The Celtic Underground Top Ten season 2017-18 A topical podcast this week as we review the top ten players for the 7th season of the current 9iar….but don’t worry, the first 20 mins are disccusing the fact that tonight, as we record the podcast, Celtic are officially champions of Scotland AGAIN and have officially achieved 9iar AGAIN. First up we have a very special message from the manager to all our listeners (yes, we actually do) and then we have a 20 minute chat about achieving 9iar and how ...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 32 min
The 9iar Chronicles - Season 8 1972/73 (Courtesy of The Celtic Wiki) The New to the Fore. League Position – 1st - Eighth League title in a row - a record League Cup – Losing Finalists Scottish Cup – Losing Finalists Glasgow Cup - Not played this season Drybrough Cup - Losing Finalists European Cup - Second Round So close to being a Double; so close to being a Treble! And in the end a record consecutive eighth League Championship title. Season 1972 - 73 should have been the season when the club-d...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 36 min
SPFL TO RFC - WTF? It’s here, the dossier that everyone (well everyone in scottish football) was waiting for. The evidence, the whistle blower, the reports of bullying, the substantiation, the smoking guns, deep throat, the bombshells that would lead to the resignation of the CEO were all…well NOT there. Unfortunately RFC seem to confuse questions with evidence and fact with opinion. Following it’s publication, their CEO (who sits on the SPFL board that is so useless) appeared on Radio Clyde. af...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
The 9iar Chronicles - Season Seven, 1971/72 A Blend of Old and New League Position – 1st - Seventh League title in a row - a record League Cup – Losing Finalists Scottish Cup – Winners Glasgow Cup - Not played this season Drybrough Cup - Losing Finalists European Cup - Semi Finalists Season 1971 - 72 was a significant season as it really marked the start of a new chapter for the club, of players that had begun to appear the previous season but made their true marks this season. It also marked in...
May 06, 2020•2 hr 1 min
The 9iar Chronciles - Season Six 1970/71 Merely Champions? Merely a Double? The End of an Era? League Position – 1st - Sixth League title in a row League Cup – Losing Finalists Scottish Cup – Winners Glasgow Cup - Semi-Final European Cup - Quarter Final Celtic won their sixth successive League Championship and the League and Scottish Cup Double - the 7th time they had achieved this. But many folk were now shaking their heads and saying that the team was not what it was. The problem appeared to b...
Apr 28, 2020•2 hr 15 min
Covid or Novid As you will hear, this is not our usual Celtic Underground guest - for a start she doesn’t go to games… More importantly that attending Celtic games however, she is working to save lives. Haley (my niece) is a nirse currently working in A&E, sometimes in general accodent & emergency, other times (liek this past week) on the Covid19 ward. To use the hospital jargon, she is either Covd or Novid. Don’t worry, the content won’t unnerve (it might even put your mind at rest) for...
Apr 23, 2020•52 min
The 9iar Chronicles - Season Five 1969/70 A brilliant season that was nearly incredible! League Position – 1st - Fifth League title in a row League Cup – Winners Scottish Cup – Losing finalists Glasgow Cup - European Cup - Losing finalists When you look at that list of season accomplishments above you would have to conclude that it was so close to being a very successful season. The Double was very nearly a treble and close to a European quadruple. The truth is in the detail. The one word that m...
Apr 21, 2020•2 hr 1 min
The 9iar Chronicles - Season Four 1968/69 TREBLES ALL ROUND! League Position – 1st - Fourth League title in a row League Cup – Winners Scottish Cup – Winners Glasgow Cup - Semi-Final European Cup - Quarter Final An extremely successful season, the second treble season and the 6th League and Cup double. Only two blips dotted the horizon. Those were the quarter final loss to AC Milan, who went on to win the European Cup this season, and losses home and away to Rangers in the League. They still fin...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Aitch is retired! I love having guests on the podcast. Most of the time we have myself and the usual team of guys discussing the events of the day affecting our cub however every so ogten we get guests on to provide us with a little something extra. What makes the guest so great is that they give up, what usually ends up being 2 hours+ of their day to be “interviewed” by a complete amatuer and they do so willingly and for free. What is also great is when the guest has so many stories that I run ...
Apr 12, 2020•1 hr 45 min
The 9iar chronicles - Season Three 1967/68 The Second Greatest Season EVER in the History of the Club - and a Double season. League Position – 1st - Third League title in a row League Cup – Winners Scottish Cup – First Round Glasgow Cup - Winners European Cup - First Round After the highs of 1967-68 it would be difficult to know how to go forward with the club. That Jock Stein had a vision of where the club should be was without doubt. He had clearly shown that the club could move forward with s...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 31 min
Tale from the Celtic Wiki plus the radio commentary of the goals There is little introduction required for Celtic fans of this game - 25th May 1967. Celtic 2-1 Inter Milan. This 9iar extra features a return of The Human Torpedo and a Tale from The Celtic Wiki and the radio commentary of the goals from the game. Enjoy... 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/subscribe...
Apr 03, 2020•23 min
The 9iar chronicles - Season Two 1966/67 This is the second in our nine in a row diaries and it is the story of the most remarkable season - The greatest season ever in the history of the club and one of the greatest seasons of any football club anywhere. • League Position – 1st - Second League title in a row League Cup – Winners Scottish Cup – Winners Glasgow Cup - Winners European Cup - Winners Every competition that the club entered it won. There can be no better season than 1967. The first N...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The UK (and most of Europe) lockdown continues but that never stops the Celtic chat. This week I am joined by someone who I have met many times at post game Celtic press conferences and someone I have been meaning to get on for some time - John Gallagher. John is a former professional footballer who played and coached at a level below the top flight but far above the standard most of us could only dream of however the main reason I have John on the pod is because John generates the Opta stats at...
Mar 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The 9iar Chronicles - Season 1965-66 This current period we are hoping to achieve the magical 10+ in a row and eclipse the 9 in a row done by another Glasgow team through the 1990s. Biu of course they were not the first club to achieve that level of success. The first Scottish team to win 9iar were the magical Glasgow Celtic, managed by the incredible Jock Stein and the first season in that run was 1965-66. Celtic has been in the wilderness of the Scottish game prior to the return of Jock as man...
Mar 24, 2020•54 min
We are in unprecedented times and that requires an unprecedented quality of guest and so this week we have an actual brain surgeon on the podcast! Originally @pablo567 was going to be on to discuss heading of the football and dementia however with the current crisis we thought it would be better to have him on to discuss how the SPFL wrap up the season. We discuss at length when and why Celtic will be crowned Champions. In addition to the football we also manage to squeeze in why having a free a...
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr 4 min
On Thursday night Celtic played Copenhagen and during the game we decided to give them a little thank you for being such good hosts the previous week. So we took 3 goals, tied them up in a parcel, put on a lovely bow a gift wrapped the best present we could… Yes we are so generous that we gifted them safe passage to the last 16 of the Europa League by making an absolute pigs ear of the home leg following the 1-1 draw in Denmark. In this podcast we pick over the bones of Thursday night’s game and...
Feb 28, 2020•51 min
Podcast Xtra - Celtic 5 Hearts 0 Tonight Celtic thumped Hearts by 5 goals at Celtic Park with the atmosphere greatly enhanced with some late goals just down the M77 at Kilmarnock meaning that the lead at the top of the table is now 10 points. After the game Neil Lennon, Jozo, the Hearts manager and a Hearts player spoke with the press. The Hearts manager rambled and I’m not sure he’ll be their answer. It was a great night. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
Feb 13, 2020•22 min
It wasn’t until nearly the 80th minute today against Hamilton that Celtic fans could start to relax today and had we not achieved that win and capitalised upon RFC dropping points at home to Aberdeen then the recriminations over the (lack of) activity in the January window would have been unbearable on scoial media however the manager made key substitutions in the second half and we went on to score 4 goals and continue our 3+ goals a game since the return to league activity following the winter...
Feb 02, 2020•55 min
Celtic have returned to SPFL action in positive fashion, scoring 9 goals by knocking three past each of Kilmarnock, Ross County and St Johnstone. We have scored more goals and gained more points than all but 4 of the seasons this century after the equivalent number of games and with our progress in Europe and already a domestic trophy in the cabinet we remain on course for another remarkable season. With all of this the angst and frustration among many in our support is difficult to understand a...
Feb 01, 2020•52 min
2010 – 2019 was the Celtic decade. It started in an inauspicious manner with us limping along through the season with a failing manager and, 3 months in, a 4-0 thumping by St Mirren meant enough was enough and a change was made. Neil Lennon took over the reigns on a temporary basis, won 8 league games in a row and was given the job full time. The decade ended with a manager leaving, Neil Lennon being given the job on a temporary basis, seeing us through to the 8th title in a row and getting the ...
Jan 19, 2020•1 hr 21 min
We’re still in the limbo-land of the winter break and whilst the players are training in the hotbed of the birth of World Ward III we here at CU Towers thought there needed to be a half year report card for the hoops. We therefore decided we needed a panel of esteemed football experts to review the season so far and in the best Juke Box Jury fashion ascribe whether it had been a hot or a miss. After getting various knock backs we dialled up Duncan and Lachie to review the season so far. It’s bro...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Happy New Year! The Celtic Underground podcast will now be entering our THIRD decade of podcasting, we may be getting old and we may be Celtic Da’s but who cares?!? We have set the pace for football fans podcasts in Scotland and will continue to do so into the 2020s and although our final recorded podcast of 2019 covers one of those exceptionally rare things of the last 10 years (a defeat) it is only one loss in a decade of complete domestic dominance and in a period of winning domestic trophy a...
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 32 min
To quote Noddy Holder It’s Chriiiisssstmaaaas! As we record this podcast it’s Christmas Day (and for those in earlier time zones you’re probably picking this up on Christmas day or later) and so what do we have to do bar make sure the final presents are wrapped, the food is ready to be made and fun is ready to be had. In preparation for having more important things to do I decided to have one last podcast before the festivities so I called up Hullbhoy and had a little chat. On the podcast we tal...
Dec 24, 2019•54 min
What a game and what a week. We have had the over dramatic descriptions of how well they played and how on another day blah, Blah BLAH…the scores on the doors is Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers. Celtic have won 10 trophies in a row. The Celtic X Men! We now know - they had umpteen booked and could have been worse. The “offside” Celtic goal was either marginally on or marginally off - ie too close to call and Morelos cannot score against us. What we also know for certain is that Celtic are the dominant forc...
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 14 min
The world’s longest running football fans podcast is back with a same day match review following our 4-1 victory away at Ross County. Following the midweek triumph over Rennes, these are the types of games that have seen us trip up over the years - after a thrilling and successful midweek European tie in front of a full house at Celtic Park it must be quite a come down to go to Dingwall and play ‘County’. Despite this the current squad showed all their professionalism and romped to a comfortable...
Dec 01, 2019•38 min
Today Celtic defeated Livingston by 4 goals to nil. That’s twice I’ve seen them play - they are not a football team, but a bunch of cloggers. A hard physical side who do their best to stop Celtic playing aided and abetted by sympathy reffing. Fair play to Gary Holt, his job is to have Livingstone playing at the highest standard they can and use the rules and refs as they are to achieve this and there will be a number of clubs in Scotland with much higher budgets who aren’t even in the same leagu...
Nov 25, 2019•17 min
The day after the night before… Following the historic victory in Rome over Lazio, Neil Lennon had his pre-Motherwell match press conference at Celtic Park today. It wasn’t much of a pre-Motherwell press conference and more of a post Lazio one. Neil reflected on the magnitude of the victory and the positive impact he believes it will make on the club, the team and the relationship between the players and the fans. There is mention of the January window, his thoughts on the draw being far away an...
Nov 08, 2019•21 min
Tonight saw Celtic secure a hard won victory over an excellent Lazio team to move top of the Europea League Group at the half way point. After the game we got the views of Neil Lennon, the Lazio manager and Kris Ajer. Enjoy… 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/subscribe...
Oct 24, 2019•16 min
This week we are joined by Glasgow sport entrepreneur Duncan Smillie. Owner of the Glasgow Rocks Basketball team, Duncan is also a big Tim and se he again joins us to discuss Celtic and a wee bit about his team. The bhoys review the Livingston game before quickly moving on to the victory over Ross County. They discuss plastic pitches, Tom Rogic and injury time before moving on to a preview of the Lazio game on Thursday. After all of that the guys still find time to discuss The Rocks and Duncan m...
Oct 23, 2019•52 min
This week saw the return of European action and a packed Celtic Park witnessed an excellent performance as Celtic beat Cluj an exacted some revenge for the defeat that took us out of Champions League Football this term. The game saw another goal for Scotland’s premier striker Odsonne Edouard and Mohamed Elyounoussi join Larsson, Brattback and Cadete as people who have scored for and against Celtic in European football. After such a great performance I called up @hullbhoy and we reviewed the fixt...
Oct 05, 2019•1 hr 13 min
