The Celtic Underground

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 s...

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 w...

Born to lead the green & white   Any goal for Glasgow City, another victory for the cause, another reason to giving another cheer just for the bhoys.   All week I have heard and read ill-informed nonsense about Celtic getting a heavy defeat and responded the same way - have you seen them?   We the best manager in Scotland and one of the best in Britain.   He’ll spend all week getting the team righ...

Sense and sensibility   Podcast No1 of the new season had 2 of us, podcast No2 had 3 of us and this week, podcast No3 we’ve got 4 (four) of us on it!   Whatever next…?   Following the victory over Aberdeen, we’ve got Eddie, Saint Anthony and Paul T on to discuss the game, where the club are at, signing gossip and the forthcoming game against Killie in the cup.   This weeks’ podcast is not as long...

Just like buses…you wait months for a podcast and then two come along in a week and what a podcast we have for you.   I’ve no idea if it’s any good but it’s long, my goodness it’s long.   Nearly two hours of Celtic chat (although, it could be argued that it’s 2 hours of sport chat with around 45 mins of Celtic chat but I’ll let you be the judge of that).   Anyway, I am joined by Lawrence Donegan a...

But who’s the left back…?   Nice to see you to see you…nice!   It’s good to be back and especially when we’re back to talk about the new seaso, with a new manager, new signings, new signing gossip and all for our 18th season of podcasting.   This week it’s the old team of Eddie and Harry who ramble and rumble over everything from fans objecting to people moving on, fans on message boards taking tr...

Ange train keeps on rolling   Sunday saw the coronation of Celtic as back to back champions in Scotland.   It was the 11th title out of the last 12 and the 11th of 11 titles were fans have been in attendance.   All in all a remarkable period of domination by Scotland’s most succesfull living club.   The game itself was a 2-0 triumph with Hearts trying hard for 20 mins or so before normal service w...

Double Denim Edition   First up an apology.   After every podcast this season we have promised the the paucity of podcasting provision from CU will ceases and a plethora of podcasts will follow.   If you’re being pedantic you could say that promise after every pod has been a pile of pish - and you’d be right.   So sorry.   With that out of the way I can talk about this week’s podcast -it’s a mammo...

I should be so lucky   Once again the lucky bhoys triumphed and Ange won his 3rd out of 4 domestic trophies he has competed for and B******t Bingo Beale went home with his tail between his legs.   Celtic won the league cup on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Rangers in a game that was pretty comfortable throughout and that Celtic could, in the end, have won by 3 or 4.   St Anthony was at the game wi...

The Celtic Da Podcast returns   You can have all your whipper snapper podcasts with your Xthis and that but there is only one podcast that can continually hark back to the 90s and earlier and it’s this one - the world’s longest running football fans podcast.   We’re now in our 18th season (19th year) and although we may have taken a break, you can be sure that we will always have something old and...

We’re in the mix   Tonight, before recording this podcast, I was in a whatsapp debate about how to describe the draw with Shaktar.   I described it as brilliant, others said disappointing.   Personally I couldn’t see how you could describe an away UCL prefromance wehere we should and could have won by 2-4 goals as disappointing.   Yes, there’s disappointment that we didn’t win but surely it’s abso...

The Celtic Steamroller   Saturday 3rd September Celtic played Rangers.   Saturday 3rd September Celtic toyed with Rangers. We played them off the park in the first half and coasted the second.   You got the impression that if Ange had told the team at half-time that they needed to score another 4, we could have.   We start the podcast with a quick exert from the Heart & Hand Podcast that someone s...

Tifo or Tifno…? Sometimes the title doesn't really give an insight into the real content of the podcast but I've got to write something and I quite liked this so, there you go. Anyway, this week the middle aged podcast by middle aged fans for EVERYONE returns (have we mentioned we are the world’s longest running football fans podcast?).  Anyway, back to the point…we are enjoying lige under Ange an...

When we started this podcast (did I mention it’s the world’s longest running football fans podcast) we never thought it would last 17 seasons.   It’s ebbed and flowed and the young kids have arrived with their xg, xa, xt, abc, easy as 1,2,3 but we’ll always be here - the middle aged podcast for the middle aged fan who loves the hoops and gets mildly irritated.   And so we are back for that record...

Celtic today secured a draw against Rangers to put us just one win from the title.  It's the 4th time in a row we have secured either a draw or win against the team from the South Side of the city. It's a game that Celtic had the chances to put to bed before the Rangers equaliser.  We didn't and a few players looked exhausted towards the end but we held on, secured the draw and now only a dire cha...

The podcast is back (again) after a midseason break Now where were we....ah that's right, we're on track for a treble! Sorry it's been so long but you know how it is, life, work, IT issues - they all get in the way of creating the latest episode of the world's longest running football fans podcast.  Anyway, the IT issues have been resolved (like most I'm not sure about volume of hours in work) but...

Welcome Home   The podcast is back for another episode and we have some old and older voices for you in the names of Lawrence and Eddie.   Yes, Lawrence is on and fresh from his recently return on a Sunday night on Twitter Spaces, we are joined by Eddie Pearson.   The boys go on to discuss Ange-ball, whether the board should get praise or not for the transfer window.   Also following the departure...

Ange-ball Rolls On   Celtic have tonight come through what was at times a very nervy evening (a very self-inflicted one) to progress to the group stages of the Europa League and they can now prepare for Sunday.   I was unsure about organising a post game podcast.   I always recall Mark Cooper bemoaning that everytime I organised one with hime we lost.   But I am not a believer in “what’s for you w...

The Game Episode 7 - Barca 125   November 7th 2012.   The night before a Mass was held in St Mary’s to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the forming of Celtic Football Club and that week illustrated that Big Billy’s words about there being a fairytale about this club were never more true.   We has invited the board of Barca to share in our commemoration mass and the following night they visited t...

Celtic and our Irish heritage   This week St Anthony takes control of the podcast to discuss Celtic and it’s Irish heritage.   Saint is joined by Sean McDonagh who lecture politics and Scots/Irish history at OU.     There cannot be a Celtic fan out there who does not know some basics of the coubs formation and heritage however it is always good to get   the details from an expert in the field and...

The Game Episode 6 - Udinese draw and F’ UEFA   The current situation at Celtic could be better and so our guest wanted to pick a game from happier times.   It’s the winter of 2011 and the team has had a dramatic turnaround since being 3 nil down at Rugby Park and Neil Lennon looked like being on the way out.   They pulled things back in the 2nd half of that game and started to really motor.   At...

Podcast Xtra   Ange & the starman   On Saturday31st July Celtic commence the new league season away at Tynecastle.   The current state of the first team squad has some fans concerned but we have the new Swede and an update on the new Japanese striker in these pre-game interviews from Ange Postecoglou and Carl Starfelt.   Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...

Season 16 - Let’s go round again   Baby we’re back!  Welcome to the 16th season of the world’s longets running football fans podcast.  To celebrate our new season we will have   NO new features NO new graphics NO new music NO new opinions   The podcast will be just as you like - same old usual rubbish but it’s this consistency that has kept our listener numbers the same all these years.   We reall...

Welcome Ange & Dom   Today was the official unveiling of Ange Postecoglou as Celtic manager and of Dom McKay as Celtic CEO.   Both spoke very well.   Talk is cheap as the negative people say however I was very pleased with what I heard today.   No-one comes into a new job and criticises the people or the past but it’s clear, reading between the lines, that Dom wants to address the stagnation in ou...

The View from Down Under   Ange Postecoglou is the new manager of Celtic.   Fans are filled with trepidation about a manager with no European track record.   The pessemists are trotting out the usual “he’s sh!te3” stuff whilst the optimists are noting the exceptional level of positivity coming out of Australia for this guy.   Based upon this mixed view, I called up our friend Mike Mehall-Wood (now...