The Celtic Underground

Ange Postecoglou First Interview   Celtic have today appointed Ange Postecoglou as the new manager of the club and we have the audio from his first interview.   Interstingly in the chat that follows with Dom McKay, he once again mentions modernisation.   It seems to be his theme and listeners to the last podcast will know we heartily agree.   Dominic McKay: Ange is an outstanding leader and an out...

An analogue club in a digital age   This week we’re back to talk about The Celtic! We will be having more of The Game series but we thought we’d take a break from that to discuss the managerial situation at the club.   First we’ve had the rejection by Eddie Howe and then the appointment of Ange (or at least the likely appointment of Ange as nothing has happened yet…).   This week we get Saint Anth...

The Game Ep5 - Tirollercoaster   This game had everything - a new team under a new manager with a new striker scoring an og in a 9 goal thriller where Celtic were out with just 6 minutes to go.   It had a full house and so everyone who was a Tim at the time could say “I was there” but for some reason it’s never one of those games everyone talks about with reverence…and it should be.   Celtic 6 Tir...

The Game Ep4 - Boavista Away 2003   For those of us lucky enough to remember Seville it was all made possible by this night - a victory away at Boavista.   A crap game, a sclaffed shot and a penalty claim….but we were through.   Remy of ByTheMinCeltic fame joins Antony and I to share his recollections of The Game.   This is how The Celtic Wiki describes it…   With so much at stake, the opening exc...

The Game Ep3 - Partizan Belgrade   To this day, this is one of the most incredible games I have ever attended.   Yes I’ve been at the Barca game, the Invincibles Cup Final Game, victories and defeats at Ibrox but for utterly incredible drama few can match this game - Celtic 5, Partizan Belgrade 4.   A future Dundee Utd Manager, the dad of a future Celtic striker and a guy wearing trackie bottoms -...

The Game Ep2 - Palm Sunday   This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Palm Sunday gubbing of Rangers, a game that holds special memories for our guest Kevin Schofield as it was his first Glasgow Derby.   It was dark times for the club and these victories were smal glimpses of light.   We had beaten Rangers the week before for what became known as the ST Patrick’s Day Massacre.   That was a game...

The Game Episode 1 - Shame Game   10 years ago this month was The Shame Game.   A silly title for a game that saw no shame apart from the terrible behaviour of the soon to be defunct Rangers players and assistant manager.   But with its notoriety and coming to the fore we thought   we’d kick off the new series with a review of that game.   Here’s how the Celtic Wiki describes it:   As one-side a m...

Podcast Xtra - John Kennedy & David Turnbull   Celtic are looking to engage better with the fan media and this was the first step in 2021 of that new engagement with a specially organised fan media press conference.   To be fair to the club, bringing this together is slightly more complicated than it seems.   As I’ve joked recently, there are now a plethora of podcasts and how do the club make sur...

Pieces of Eight   Yes, it’s the pirate podcast (you’ll understand when you listen) and we are reviewing the tenure of Neil Lennon as Celtic manager.   We look at his departure last time, his re-appointment and assess whether this was some catastrophic turn of unlucky events for Neil or the inevitable outcome of appointing someone not qualified for the job and I would suggest that the panel have a...

Celts on The Rocks   This week I am joined by Lachie Mor and Duncan Smillie of Glasgow Rocks to discuss the current situation at Celtic.   We review the inept Ross County performance and then go on to discuss the nature of the vitriol against senior people at the club (manager CEO) and question if that is the “Celtic Way” - can we not disagree with the board’s decision on Lennon without being so d...

Marketing Celtic   I know, I know, all we want is a succesful team on the pitch and you have no time for all this marketing and “brand” chat that revolves around modern football and if that’s the sum total of your thoughts on marketing a football club then this podcast is not for you.   If, however, you see maximising income as the way of getting the best players in the pitch then hopefully you wi...

And so after 17 years in the job Peter is leaving.    Peter Lawwell was first employed by Celtic as the club's Financial Controller from 1990 to 1991 under then Chief Executive Terry Cassidy. In September 2003, he returned to Celtic succeeding Ian McLeod as Chief Executive. The job title was changed for Lawwell to Executive Director, Head of Operations as many of the previous Chief Executives had...

Dear Dr Jo   This past week saw the passing of Big Shuggie Edvaldsson and formerCeltic manager Dr Jozef Venglos.   Jóhannes Eðvaldsson signed for Celtic in 1975 and made 127 appearances for the club.   He scored 24 goals for Celtic playing in defence, midfield and attack but made his name mainly as a central defender.   Dr Jozef Venglos was the first foreign born & raised manager of a club in the...

Tell me when it’s over   And the hits just keep on coming… This past week Celtic have dropped points to Livingston twice (once to a team made up of their fringe players) and still the management team remains unchanged.   On the podcast we discuss the possible rational behind this, the issues with the players, the Livi game and of course that press conference.   As a podcast that has (at times) bee...

What’s going on?   Who could have predicted, that going to Dubai, in the middle of the world’s worst pandemic in 100 years could end up being a PR disaster…?   Sunday night the news broke that we had a player with Covid. Then it started to come out that, due to the nature of everyone being in close proximity, 13 players and 3 coaches would be unavailable for the game against Hibs.   With perhaps a...

2020 - A Year in Review   Twenty Twenty vision was hard work - a year of two halves.   We ran away with the league until Covid came and we were robbed of the 9iar celebrations.   When won a quadruple treble and again robbed of the celebrations.   In the grand scheme of things it will be just one year of missing going to games and there are worse things happening in the world however it hurt to mis...

I don’t want to talk about it!   The maltesers edition.   And there it was - in the 62nd minute the final flickers of the 10iar dream were snuffed out when Nir Bitton climbed all over the back of Alfredo Morelos and Madden was presented with the opportunity to reduce us to 10 men and any chnce of clawing back the huge deficit went.   It wasn’t the Bitton sending off that killed the chances of winn...

Quadruple Treble   No illiterative headlines name for the podcast - it’s a simple history making name.   The remarkable dominance of Celtic over Scottish football continues as the third and final trophyof the 2019/20 season is secured and Celtic become world beaters by securing a fourth consecutive treble.   After a first 45 mins where we looked like we would go on to score 4 or 5 it was squeaky b...

Custer’s Last Stand   And the hits just keep on coming…..this week it was St Johnstone.   Where do we go from here?   Is it down to the lake I fear?   After the Ferencvaros game Antnony Murray and I were very critical of the manager and after 30 mins I got St Anthony on to be the voice of reason and calm us all down.   Since then there has been no discernible improvement in performances and so we...

No longer surprising   Sorry to have such long breaks between podcasts, honestly, we’re not just waiting for defeats but I know many will be in the working every hour God sends boat at the moment and getting an hour to do a podcast is challenging.   Enough of that negativity - onto the hoops!   As you’ll hear on the podcast, Antony Murray has just been teaching Julius Ceaser and one quote from tha...

Count The Trophies   Following the Scottish Cup Semi-Final victory Celtic are on course for another treble - 4 in a row would be quite incredible and you would assume that everything in the garden is rosy…but it’s not.   Thursday night saw another abysmal European result for the club and another performance were body language was dreadful on and off the pitch and it was hard to believe that this i...

Success in mind   Saturday’s result and performance could have been better…!   Rather than have a knee jerk rant, I thought it would be more appropriate to have some positive thinking on the podcast and who better than the guru of Scottish positive thinking, Mr Jack Black.   I first came across Jack around 1997 when my then boss handed me some audio tapes and said - I think this will be right up y...

Antony Murray brings us episode 7 of the lifetime XI series. Many listeners have been enjoying the lifetime XI series of Antony Murray.  Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and this series is coming to a close, butnot before we have at least one more episode.  This week Antony returns and we have episode 7 of the series. Enjoy... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi...

Celtic in the Black & White Era   There’s a new book out and St Anthony chats with the author, Steve Finan   This brand new book features hundreds of previously unseen classic Celtic photos from the glory days. Even if you know the history . . . have you seen it like this? These photos have lain hidden in archives for 40, 50 or even 60 years. They show the great events such as the European Cup tri...

Garbage   Tonight Celtic played a team who are vastly inferior to us.   They had three attempts on goal and scored with two of them.   Meantime our manager picked a starting 11 with no striker and didn’t bring one on until the 78th minute.   I get that Ajeti may not quite be fully fit and I fear Klimala not starting is because the manager doesn’t rate him.   what a s**t show   We wanted to get a p...