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COLBY DONOVAN has been named in new Scotland manager Sebastien Pocognoli’s first Scotland international squad for the start of the Nations League campaign. The 20-year-old Celtic right-back is joined by team-mate Kieran Tierney for the opening four games in Group E with the Scots due to face Slovenia home and away as well as Switzerland [...]
CELTIC great Danny McGrain, 76, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The club released a statement today concerning the former Hoops’ fans’ favourite and former Scotland international right-back. It read: “Celtic Football Club is today sharing the news with supporters that club legend, Danny McGrain, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “The club has been in close contact [...]
CALLUM McGREGOR is preparing for a derby landmark at Parkhead on Sunday. It will be the Celtic captain’s 50th game against the club’s city rivals and undoubtedly the 33-year-old midfielder will be hoping there is a seismic turnaround in fortunes from the preceding encounter. McGregor appeared to be in a state of shock as he handled [...]
It was a risk putting Sam Johnstone into the side on Sunday. He performed well at St Johnstone on his Celtic debut a few days earlier, but game’s like Sunday’s are different. The first such occasion each season also has a regular interest: how many debutants will the fixture feature. Both sides had more than [...]
CHRIS SUTTON insists Celtic need another Neil Lennon if they hope to turn things around. The champions’ middle-of-the-park operators were swamped in Linz and Govan as they collapsed under a deluge of goals to exit the Champions League and the Premier Sports League Cup. The defence wasn’t protected by Callum McGregor, Benjamin Nygren and Mika Baur [...]
CELTIC great John ‘Yogi’ Hughes ran amok and scored a blistering 13-minute hat-trick in an 8-1 League Cup romp against Raith Rovers at Starks Park – EXACTLY 61 years ago today. The giant frontman, the Hoops’ eighth all-time leading scorer with 189 strikes, demolished the Fifers in the early months of the Jock Stein revolution. Big Yogi, [...]
CELTIC legend Jock Stein made an extraordinary immediate impact on the Parkhead club when he returned as manager in March 1965. In another CQN EXCLUSIVE series, author Alex Gordon, who has written sixteen publications on Celtic, has opened his book files on the Parkhead great. Today, in Part Five of our fascinating look back at [...]
NOT SURE how they managed it, but Celtic’s players somehow contrived to sleepwalk through the din and clamour of over 50,000 frenzied fans at a toxic Ibrox yesterday. Ignoring the fact it was the Sabbath, the Govan chorists worked their way through their raucous little ditties while Martin O’Neill’s men dozed en route to an [...]
The concerns you and I have discussed for weeks were ruthlessly exposed at Ibrox yesterday. Sam Johnstone was blameless for the three goals, however, instead of inspiring confidence in his defence, the keeper looked the most nervous man on the field. It was when trying to play out from the back four minutes into the [...]
MARTIN O’NEILL hopes Celtic’s truly awful performance and unacceptable defeat at Ibrox yesterday acts as “a wake-up call” for the champions. And the 74-year-old manager includes himself among those who have urgent questions to answer. O’Neill is prepared for a bout of self-analysis as he attempts to discover what went so wrong on a monumental [...]
IT WAS a well-nigh impossible task to give any Celtic player passmarks after the tepid display in the 3-0 loss at Ibrox yesterday. The Hoops toppled out of the Premier Sports League Cup much in the same manner as they capitulated in Austria to exit the Champions League after a horrendous showing in the 5-1 nosedive [...]
MARTIN O’NEILL was transfixed on the Ibrox touchline as he watched his Celtic team being dismantled in the Premier Sports League Cup quarter-final. The feeble Hoops, who failed to respond to the vigour of Derek McInnes’ team, were humiliated 3-0 in a lopsided Glasgow derby. It wasn’t easy on the eye for anyone of a [...]
CELTIC legend Jock Stein made an extraordinary immediate impact on the Parkhead club when he returned as manager in March 1965. In another CQN EXCLUSIVE, author Alex Gordon, who has written sixteen publications on Celtic, has opened his book files on the Parkhead great for an absorbing twenty-one part series. Today, in Part Four of [...]
RANGERS 3 CELTIC 0 JUST WHEN you thought it could not get any worse than LASK, along comes this utterly embarrassing and totally unacceptable collapse at Ibrox this afternoon. Feeble Celtic, outfought from first minute to last, capitulated to exit the Premier Sports League Cup in the most mystifying of circumstances. There is no getting [...]
