This week Celtic kick off our 13th UCL campaign and do so in the new UCL league format, we shall see what that brings. The boys, with the help of a scouting report from Ross Hall, preview the game and discuss the UCL in general. The boys also discuss the forthcoming subscriber vote on the greatest Celtic UCL XI. Enjoy Thanks for reading The Celtic Underground Substack! This podcast is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers ...
Sep 18, 2024•58 min
This Saturday sees the first visit to Glasgow this season by the team from Midlothian. We don’t have an especially warm relationship with the team often referred to as the lesser version of a certain Glasgow team and the obvious question - has it always been thus? Well, listen to this tale from Matthew of Hail Hail History to find out. Enjoy… The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ...
Sep 13, 2024•6 min
Robert Austin Thomson played for Celtic from 1929 into the 1930s alongside club legend Jimmy McGrory. His finest year in a Celtic jersey came in 1931 when he was the star of the cup final against Motherwell. Thomson lived a life of excess and died suddenly at the age of just 30 leaving a wife and two young children. Here’s the story. For more on our history go to https://www.thecelticwiki.com/ Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to ...
Sep 11, 2024•9 min
Celtic pulled the rabbit out of the hat that Andrew H mentioned on here and brought in players on the final day of the window - lifelong Celtic fan Luke McCowan and Belgian prodigy Arne Engels. Signed on the last night of the window, the players both made their debuts in the comfortable Glasgow Derby win and then met with the press this week. We have the audio and video from the meetings with the fan media. Enjoy… Thanks for reading The Celtic Underground Substack! This post is public so feel fr...
Sep 10, 2024•22 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com It’s the international break and there is therefore still some football going on and we decided to use this two week fallow period to chat with a former Celt who is still playing at international level and down in the EPL. In his chat with Andrew, Ryan covers his time at Celtic and gives an insight into how fraught a transfer window can be. He also disc…...
Sep 10, 2024•1 min
This weekend the Celtic legends secured a penalty shoot-out victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford. This charity game saw thousands of pounds raised for the respective foundations. It was also another chapter in the annals of the famous links between both clubs and Celtic’s experiences at Old Trafford. We therefore thought it appropriate to sneak out another tale from Hail Hail History Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to ...
Sep 09, 2024•5 min
Sometimes small actions can have big consequences. 8 September 2024 is151 years since the opening of Sacred Heart Church in Bridgeton. Without this event, there is a chance there would be no Celtic. For more information, follow Hail Hail History Enjoy… The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...
Sep 08, 2024•7 min
Celtic’s First Cup Final (Glasgow Exhibition Cup) Season1888-1889 not only saw Celtic’s first competitive game, but Celtic’s first, second and third cup finals. It would be a year of learning, losing, wining and controversy starting with The Glasgow Exhibition Cup, held to coincide with the International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry. For more information, follow Hail Hail History Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...
Sep 04, 2024•7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com Everyday is a school day as they say and we’re trying something different so if it doesn’t work out, we’ll have another go! For your listening and viewing delights we have a mixture of prsentations (allegedly). If you are a paid subscriber to the platform, you can watch or listen to the podcast featuring Andrew H, Ross Hall and Harry B was we discuss the …...
Aug 30, 2024•41 min
Down to business Another tale from the Celtic Wiki In an ideal world, Celtic would never have been formed, because in an ideal world there would have been not poverty and discrimination. But we don’t live in an ideal world and this tale from the Celtic wiki talsk about the formation of the club and how/when we changed from a charity to a business. For more on our history go to https://www.thecelticwiki.com/ Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ...
Aug 28, 2024•6 min
St Mirren 0 - 3 Celtic Celtic travelled all the way along the M8 to visit St Mirren in Paisley and ran out 3-0 winners. The scoring began inside 3 minutes and from that point on Celtic looked comfortable and were never in any danger of dropping any points. Three games into the season, three wins and no goals conceded (the only goal against so far was against Hibs in the League Cup). It was two midfielders and a defender who got the goals today and the post match discussions with Brendan were all...
Aug 26, 2024•25 min
Celtic comfortably beat Hibs 3-1 in the Premier Sports League Cup fixture at Celtic Park today. Following the game Harry B and Andrew H discussed the game and the general positivity about the club. The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticunderground.substack...
Aug 19, 2024•40 min
Nineteenth season! Let that sink in. 19 seasons most of you have been listenning to this guff. Will you never learn? There are listeners to this podcast who weren’t born when it started. Goodness - there’s even a football club playing in the top flight that didn’t exist when this podcast started. (You can pick up this podcast for free on this Substack app, apple, amazon, google, spotify or wherever you get your podcast listening.) The Celtic Underground podcast gets up in the morning, looks in t...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 12 min
If you’ve been online recently you will have noticed an increase in the number of bloggers and tweeters (or whatever people or X are called these days) review players and talent. One of the best of these guys is Ross Hall (the scout, not the hospital). The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In this podcast, Ross takes us on a journey that has seen him give up a succesful finance ca...
Jul 26, 2024•2 hr 10 min
A Rough Justice Another tale from the Celtic Wiki In March 2011, Celtic & Rangers engaged in “The Shame Game”. It was a match that involved Rangers players losing the plot and finished with the hyperbole of Alex Salmond summoning then CEOs of Celtic and Rangers (Lawwell & Bain) to a summit to discuss the bahviour of both clubs. At the time The Human Torpedo recorded this slice of Celtic History from The Celtic wiki to look back at troubled games from the past, starting in 1949-50 season....
Jul 08, 2024•13 min
If you’ve not already done so, please listen to Part 1 of this two part interview with Andrew H Smith on what it was really like being inside Celtic before, during and after the McCann revoltion. As he says - Fergus was a man on a mission and a man with a singular vision on how he wanted Celtic to be as a club and Andre was there, every day, documenting the process. Enjoy - This is exclusive to paid subscribers for 1 month. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subsc...
Jul 04, 2024•57 min
The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought Another tale from the Celtic Wiki What is it about Jimmy McGrory that makes him one of, if not the, greatest ever Celts? He’s our all time leading scorer with 522 goals in 501 games and holds the record for the most goals in a season, with 62 goals from 46 games. Although he was only five feet and six inches tall, he was renowned for his prowess and ability for headers. His trademark was an almost horizontal bullet header, which he performed and scored with regular...
Jul 01, 2024•12 min
We debated long and hard as to whether to publish this podcast because no matter waht we did, we couldn’t resolve the sound distortion issues - especially with Eddie’s mic. Ultimately we decided - what the heck. The worst of it appears to be at the beginning and the end. So this is a free podcast from Celtic Underground. It can be picked up wherever you get your podcasts as well as on Thecelticunderground.substack.com. There’s loads of paid and free content coming over the next few months with a...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 25 min
French Farce Another tale from the Celtic Wiki The Anglo-Franco-Scottish Friendship Cup was a short-lived Inter-League football competition organised by the French Football Federation that would see teams from the English Football League and the Scottish League compete against teams from the French League. The original idea was to have four teams from Scotland and four teams from England competing together as one nation competing against eight teams from France. Due to the objection by the Scott...
Jun 24, 2024•6 min
The Rebels have won 4th March 1994 and Fergus McCann and Brian Dempsey step out into a dark and rainy Glasgow night to make the famous declaration - The game is over, the rebels have won. Jubilation abound and tonight, as we publish this tale from The Celtic Wiki, we remember one of the unsung heroes of that takeover battle - John Keane who sdaly passed away today - 16th June 2024. John was the honourary Chairman of Celtic and he got that role because, with no ownership and no certainty that he ...
Jun 17, 2024•10 min
Working at Celtic During the McCann Revolution Fergus McCann came into Celtic Park and changed everything. He changed the board and replaced family inheritance with business acumen. He changed the ground from seats on Terracing to a 60,000 seated stadium. He built all the foundations that have now established Celtic as THE premier club in Scotland. He is one of the greatest Celts in history. The transformation in Celtic pre and post March 1994 was incredible and one of the few people with a fron...
May 30, 2024•59 min
In the past week we've had the league secured at Rugby Park, a title party at Celtic Park rounded all off with the Cup Final at Hampden on the iconic date of 25th May. Who else could I ask to discuss this than full-kit Jow Hart love-in man Remy McSwain. Remy and I review everything and jump all over the place because an easy verbal ramble through the past 10 days became a rushed preview and review because the IT set up/wifi crashed. The audio is good because the crap bits are editted out. Enjoy....
May 23, 2024•56 min
Following securing the league, Andrew Smith met with Celtic FC Foundation CEO Tony Hamilton to ask about the work of the Foundation and discuss the forthcoming charity game against the Dortmund Legends. Andrew asks searching questions such as - aren't all chairtie just a tax on the poor? But Tony robustly defends the work of the Foundation and the input of the club who are by far the biggest contributors to The Foundation. To get tickets for the game, which takes place after the cup final, log o...
May 22, 2024•42 min
Winners…again This Saturday saw the final Glasgow Derby of the league campaign and for listeners to last week’s podcast the result will have come as no surprise. Despite the comments of pundits, this is a game where form does not go out of the window. It is a game that the form team (or more appropriately the better team) nearly always win. Celtic are the better team. Celtic won. Whilst the league is not mathematically secured, we’re almost there being 6 points clear with just 2 games remaining....
May 12, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Fun Bhoys Three We have the final Glasgow Derby of season 2023/24 coming up this weekend and so we have organised some experienced heads to discuss the prospects with @Paul1888 joining Andrew & Harry to discuss the game. We roll out the metaphors and the cliches to preview the game in the context of our performance on last weekend when Brendan finally had his full first choice 16 to field. As Andrew H says - use your testicular metaphor of choice when previewing the game and have some fun. E...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Smith and Brady - Dundee review and Hearts preview This week Andrew H Smith joins Harry to review the performance and result at Dens Park. The chat takes a meandering turn as the bhoys discuss the events at Dens almost 34 years ago to the day when Celtic really blew the 1979/80 season by losing 5-1 to Dundee during the title run in. Andrew was there and experienced the vitriol. When they get on to the 21st Century tie they get on to discuss how brilliant James Forrest is and anyone who disagrees...
May 01, 2024•45 min
Smith & Brady - The Scottish Cup Semi Final Following the dramtic 3-3 draw and subsequent penalty shoot-out victory, Harry Brady and Andrew H Smith review the cup semi and discuss all of the action. There’s a review of the defensive short-comings and like every discussion by Celtic fans of a certain age, 20+ year old Hampden games are shoehorned in. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticundergroun...
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
What’s Going On? There’s hasn’t been a podcast in ages and then, in usual style, two come along at once. If you’ve not listened, then get your ears around St Anthony’s Recollections podcast out earlier in the week. It was a short sharp pod all about Paul McStay. For the longer form podcast (and it’s very long) we have Remy, Lawrence & me asking (and attempting to answer) the simple question - what’s going on? The answer seems to be Dermot with everything flowing from that! It’s nearly two ho...
Feb 24, 2024•1 hr 51 min
Recollections - Paul McStay Paul McStay was born on 22nd October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Grand-nephew of former Celtic team captain and manager Jimmy McStay, playing for Celtic was in the family blood. A hotly tipped youth prospect Paul McStay was a member of Celtic Boys Club who burst onto the football scene in remarkable style when he hit two goals and was man of the match as Scotland schoolboys defeated their English counterparts at Wembley in front of a live TV audience in June 1980. ...
Feb 22, 2024•22 min
Are we at the end of the road The Green Brigade - ostensibly a small group of fanatical “ultra” supporters below the age of 30 so who better to discuss their behaviours than a group of aging middle aged fans…? Hullbhoy, Lawrence, Eddie & I appreciate that none of us share the likely demographic of the supporters group that we discuss, but Celtic is a broad church with fans from 1-100 and all within that spectrum are entitled to their views. Online is principally in one place on the GBand so ...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 43 min
