The Celtic Underground

When Brendan arrived we knew that season 2016/17 was going to be something special, but no-one could have foreseen just how wonderful it was.  Few if any of us will ever see a team go the entire domestic season in Scotland unbeaten and in the process pick up every domestic trophy with the youths chipping in too.   The Celtic Underground team always peruse the key moments from seasons past and this...

In 2012 our greatest rivals, Rangers Football Club entered administration, they never exited it.   They limped along, finished the season and died.   The story of that death is a decades long story of cheating in the vain attempt to compete with Celtic.   This is a podcast about that cheating. As most of you will know, the blame for the death of Rangers was laid at the door of Craig Whyte by the f...

his week Saint Anthony returns with another reflection on a Celtic life in former left back Mark Reid.   When I was growing up the Celtic full back pairing was Andy Lynch at left back and Danny McGrain at Right Back.   This then changed to see Alan Sneddon come in with Danny moving over to the left.   Again that changed and our guest arrived allowing the world’s best right back into his natural po...

It’s summer time so we have something a wee bit different on this week’s podcast…basketball.   Now don’t worry we haven’t chucked our principles, our sport and and our game in the bin.   This is the Celtic Underground Podcast so obviously there has to be a Celtic angle to this and there is (thank goodness I hear you say).   This week Harry is joined by part owner of the Glasgow Rocks basketball te...

The WORLD FAMOUS Celtic Underground Top Ten is here.   It’s time to vote!   Yes the Top Ten is back again and it’s your opportunity to cast your vote for the Celtic elite.   The podcast gives you a reminder of the runners and riders and also a reminder of past glory days and those more forgetable seasons.   This year we also have a new award - the Samaras Award for that unforgaetable moment in the...

The InVIncibles have their final game - the final chapter in a remarkable season.   Celtic Football Club are just 90 minutes away from finishing an emotional year with an incredible achievement - completing an entire season unbeaten domestically and in the process picking up all possible domestic trophies - a treble of senior honours and matching the Lions on the domestic front by also bagging the...

It’s the night before and what else could we possibly do but release a podcast in tribute to one of the most remarkable achievement in all of Scottish sport.   25th May 1967 is a date written into the folklore of our club but for those of us under 50 it is only something we have read about or watched on video.   Our older fans were lucky enough to experience it so we thought it essential that we a...

inVIncible   You will tell your grandchildren that you were there, that you saw Celtic win the league without loosing a game.  Wonderful.   This week we hear from Brendan Rodgers and Leigh Griffiths immediately after the Hearts victory.  Leigh still had the mud on his boots at the press conference whereas Brendan had spent quite some time on the park before the press conference commenced but it wa...

This week Harry is joined by St Anthony, fresh from his trip to the hospital.  Many have wondered what part of his body Saint had enhanced...we couldn't possibly comment!  After discussing how difficult it was to have a hospital visit sandwiched between two humpings of a team from Ibrox, Harry & Saint then go on to discuss the victory over Aberdeen before a more mundane discussion around the parki...

This week the guests (nearly) are all Celtic. Following from the victory over St Johnstone when Celtic’s starting outfield 10 had a combined age of just 22, we hear from one of those young stars Patrick Roberts.   We also have 10 minutes from the manager where he discusses the performances of Ralston and Johnstone, the chances of keeping Paddy and his general thoughts on the victory.   Also this p...

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!   In the darkest days of the 1990’s, pre Fergus McCann, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would stand at Ibrox and witness such an imperious performance.   They may be a new club but it’s the same ground with the same fans and we absolutely thumped them.   Destroyed them.   Ground them into the ground.   From almost the first goal there was an air of menace, a thoug...

This week Harry is back and joined by Hullbhoy to discuss the fabulous walk in the park victory of the Rangers. Fresh from taking off his lycra blue/green body suit, Hullbhoy discusses with Harry how good Celtic were, how bad Rangers are and how a ref getting red card decisions wrong will be seen as having a good day!   The bhoys wax lyrical about the team and then at the end Harry reminds everyon...

This Sunday, the Celtic Graves Society will host a special event to commemorate the final resting place of James Kelly, Celtic's first ever captain.  And it's appropriate that the event falls on the 125th anniversary of Celtic's first ever Scottish Cup triumph - a 5-1 victory over Queen's Park on April 9, 1892 - when James Kelly led the Celts to the first of the 101 major trophies that the club ha...

This weeks podcast revisits the Celtic Graves Society event that took place last week in Prague.   The work of the Celtic Graves Society in keeping the memory of former Hoops Heroes alive is amazing and never more evident than this past week with the guys travelling to the Czech Republic to commemorate a former Celt.   Jim takes us through the events of that weekend with audio in three parts from...

This is is a trip that the Celtic Graves Society have been looking forward to for a very long time, commemorating the "Father of Czech Football", Johnny Madden. The Celtic Graves Society and Odbor přátel have been working hard on various different aspects of this commemoration and we would like to extend the hand of friendship to all Slavia fans as we prepare to arrive in the beautiful city of Pra...

This week we have the return of the Saint.   Fresh from his trip to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital St Anthony delivers and excellent podcast about Nutmeg magazine.   We can all be guilty of trotting out the lazy Scottish Mainstream Media label as a catch-all for bad journalism but to be fair we shouldn’t tar them all with the same brush.   There are some very good journalists out there covering the...

This week we have a bumper guest filled podcast. In no particular order you will hear; Harry Brady, a Pearson child, a member of the brady Bunch, Lachie Mor, Craig Gordon, Lewis, Robin & Robert! Value for money if I do say so. It’s a podcast of two halves. The meat and bones of the podcast is a chat between Lachie and Harry. The two bhoys discuss the recent St Mirren game and the “furore” around B...

This week the podcast was put together on the anniversary of Fergus McCann saving Celtic.   Celtic fans can rightly be proud of that period when the club was in difficulty.   A board built around family history and hereditory rights rather than business acuumen had been caught out by the arrival of brash big spenders at Ibrox.   This compounded with the need for massive infrastructure spend on the...

By the time you are listening to this you will have heard the sad news about the passing of Celtic legend and Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell.   In his career Tommy played for Celtic, Nottingham Forrest, Miami Toros and Dundee.   whilst I was not old enough to have seen the Lions I was fortunate to to have caught a glimpse of one or two of them at the end of their careers to say “I saw them play” with m...

This week we are bringing you some very special guests - the Celtic management team.   Mainly we have   a sit down interview with Chris Davies, an insightful chat into his time at Celtic so far, his level of expectation for players and the high standards he and Brendan set.    Myself, Celtic Quicknews and ByTheMinCeltic were fortunate enough to get a 45 minute one:one with Chris at Lennoxtown this...

On Saturday the 25th of February at St Kentigern's Cemetery Glasgow (prior to the Hamilton Academical fixture)   Celtic Graves will be commemorating one of the men who was a member of the team who lifted our first ever Scottish Cup, Joseph Cullen.    This Podcast Extra is a tribute to that man.   Cullen was in goals for Celtic’s first Scottish Cup triumph in April 1892 and in August that year he p...

This week Harry is joined by Mark Cooper from warm and humid Buenos Aires to discuss the state of play at Celtic and Scottish football.   Trying hard to not sound as sycophantic as Graham Hunter the bhoys meander through a discussion of the last two games, Brendan’s comments on the state of the pitch before somehow getting to discuss how good Maloney was/could have been!   Oh and they also find ti...

This podcast contains audio first created as part of the Fergus 20 yr Anthology, covering the RFC omnishambles.  It also has audio from Brendan and Mousa after the ICT thumping. When consuming my football it's always through the optics of Celtic.  Even when reviewing the success or failure of Cathro at Hearts, McInnes at Aberdeen or Lennon at Hibs it's viewed through the spectrum of the impact on...

This week it is St Anthony who is back on interview duties and his guest is a man well known to those listeners based in Scotland but may also be known to those further afield - STV Political Editor and big Celtic Man Bernard Ponsonby.   Bernard joined STV in 1990 and has gone on to be one of the heavyweights of political reporting in Scotland.   Journalist of the Year in 2015 he has covered some...

This week sees the return of a man of culture…oh sorry a man from the City of Culture, Hullbhoy. Hullbhoy joins Harry to discuss the marvellous football under Brendan and specifically to review the Hearts and Aberdeen games along with the sales that we didn’t make in the transfer window.   In the process of the meandering chat Harry & Hullbhoy also touch on the runners and riders for 2nd spot. How...