The Celtic Underground

This week St Anthony is joined by author of The First Game With My Father, Michael Tierney.  They discuss all things Celtic including Sean Connery, Gerard Butler, Ben Bradley et al. Also the Celtic FC Foundation have just a few team places left for their first golf day which is taking place on World Autism Day - 2nd April, at Renfrew Golf Club. CELTIC FC FOUNDATION GOLF DAY TO TAKE PLACE ON WORLD...

After Harry updates on the Celtic Graves Event of Saturday 28th Feb in Kilsyth and the forthcoming CFC Foundation events we have the meet of the podcast with St Anthony. St Anthony meets up with Andy Lynch.  In February 1973, Jock Stein paid £30,000 to sign Lynch for Celtic and, although Lynch was initially a winger, Stein successfully converted him into a left back. While with Celtic he won three...

This week Harry gets in from the Internazionale game at Celtic Park and has almost lost his voice.  There is just enough left to have a skype chat with our man in Argentina Mr Mak Cooper.   The two discuss the wonderful game at Celtic Park and conclude that this is wondeful but the best is yet to come.  Mark also provides an insight into what Celtic COULD be doing to get young South American talen...

This week st Anthony is joined by famous Celtic author and historian Pat Woods.   With the forthcoming tie with Inter Milan memories are bviously transported back to European joys and tears of the past, of ost note the 1967 Final and then there was the heartache of the 1972 European Cup Semi Final and the boys discuss these past times at length.   Also this past week I was fortunate enough to see...

This week former host of Celtic TV Ally Beg and author of Begg To Differ joins Harry to discuss Scottish Football.  As Ally is a Dons fan & former Celtic TV man they discuss the two cup semi finals and also discuss the Dons in the league - can they hold onto 2nd with the challenge from ICT? They discuss teh dreadful Hampden pitch, the Scottish transfer market and touch on the Inter Milan game.   E...

I decided to keep the title to this weeks podcast brief because mention the name Michael Kelly to many Celtcs and just stand back.  A man who certainly generates comment, his Celtic heritage goes back to the forming of the club.  The Kelly family and Celtic and the Kelly family and Glasgow are pretty interwined.   A man credited with halting the terminal decline of a once great City with the Glasg...

Celtic have a league cup semi final coming up over the weekend and we have brought Hullbhoy in from out of cold storage to give us his insight.   First up Hullbhoy and Harry discuss the performance of the team under Ronny and the changes and development of the playing style witnessed.  The boys then go on to discuss wider issues in Scottish football like how crap our refs are before finally lookin...

This week St Anthony is back at the reigns for a chat with a man with 6 decades plus of Celtic and Scottish football memories.  Journalist and editor of the fabulous Playing for Celtic series of books.  One indicator of the difference in player/journalist relationship in past times - Rodger was Jim Baxter's best man.       Remember St Anthony can be found on twitter -       @Stephen62572390  This...

Did you have a good New Year?  As they say may your best of 2014 be the worst of 2015.   Following on from Ally Begg on podcast No230, once again Harry brings a new voice to the CU Podcast in the Norwegian based in Glasgow, Christian Wulff or, @aHellofaBeating as many followers on twitter will know him.   Christian's interest in Scottish football began when his father established the Norwegian Ste...

This week Harry has a long range podcast with a guest who's packed more into the last 25 years than many would pack into 2 lifetimes - former ... well former many things including; Wannabe footballer, Model, Boy Band Star, Host of MUTV, Celtic TV, Setanta Sports, Sky Sports, ESPN and currently beIN Sport based in Doha, Qatar.   A fascinating guest, Ally's ability to bounceback from adversity and m...

Lachie Mor is back in the house and Harry & Lachie discuss the ghost of Celtic Past, Present & Future and conclude that it's always good to support the hoops.   The bhoys discuss the recent performances where a total of 20 goals could have been scored against Motherwell & St Mirren (but weren't).   At almost the halfway stage in the season Harry tries to get Lachie's best Celtic 11 for this crop a...

1978-79 was a season like no other, marking the end of an era and transition to a different world in more ways than one.  Jock Stein had managed Celtic for the final time and his European Cup winning captain was to take over the reigns.  The Rangers team which had been succesful in the post 9 in a row years were ageing and two clubs from the North East were starting to show how they would come bri...

The podcast this week sees St Anthony join Harry Brady to discuss the patience of fans past and presence. The bhoys start off by discussing a very exciting new book - St Anthony's review of the remarkable 1978/79 season which culminated in the game which has entered the folklore of the Celtic support, the famous 4-2 game when 10 men won the league.  From this the bhoys find a way to weave the pati...

The old sage of Celtic Underground returns.  With the feast or famine nature of modern football fans, couple with the desire of the Scottish media to pounce on any negitivity at Celtic, the changes at Celtic have resulted in pressure on Ronny Deila.  Lachie Mor and Harry Brady therefore decide to look beyond the easy "it's no working" comments that abound to see if there are indications that it is...

Lachie Mor is back.  Whilst his convalescing continues Lachie finds time to discuss Celtic with Harry Brady with a more considered approach.  The pair discuss the fortunes of the team to date, the challenges of changing the culture of the club and how the internet provides an outlet for the less tolerant fans.   In view of Peter Lawwells comments following the clubs exit from Champions league foot...

This week Harry is joined by St Anthony to discuss the Maribor disaster analysing the many areas where things went wrong and looking for any positives which there may be to take from it - the guys don't think there were any. After discussing what wasn't good about the game, the guys also discuss their hopes that Ronnie will get things right, some fears he may not but mainly criticism of the board...

With all the shenanigans of the last few weeks, in fact with everything that has gone on at Celtic since the departure of Neil Lennon Harry decided it was time for a podcast discussing the breif season so far.  Who better to join him than man in the know, musical expert, golf aficionado and @bythemin mogul Lawrence Donegan?   Lawrence and Harry discuss Lennon, Deila, Iceland, Warsaw, Perth and all...

This week St Anthony returns with another former hero as his guest.  Danny Crainie got his big chance at Celtic due to a big break - the leg breaks of Nicholas and McGarvey and he grabbed it with both hands.  The return of Nicholas and McGarvey limited his game time and then with a change of manager from McNeil to Hay and the arrival of McClair and Melrose it became time for Danny to move on.   Da...

This week St Anthony is joined by another star of the hoops from the late 70's and early 80's, Davie Provan.  For the 40 somethings and upwards Davie was an excellent winger who (along with Murdo McLeod)  was able to fire in the odd spectacular free kick the most famous of which gets a wee airing on this podcast.   Davie was perhaps unforunate to come up against John Robertson and Davie Cooper oth...

This week St Anthony returns with another former Celtic star from many of our youths - Mike Conroy.   Mike signed for Celtic in 1978 and scored on his debut - unfortunately that was a 4-1 defeat to Hibs.  Mike was at Celtic at a time when the middle of the park had good young talent and competed for a starting place with the likes of Tommy Burns, Mudro McLeod, Davie Provan, Johnny Doyle, Dom Sulli...

This week St Anthony joins Harry Brady to discuss all things Celtic, the season past, manager past and the manager future.   At the time of recording the two gents had a good idea that Ronny Deila would be the next Celtic manager, but nothing was confirmed.  This didn't stop them from doing what all good Celtic fans have been doing online and extrapalate from the 3 online articles in English about...

This week Harry is joined by a non-Celtic guest - Richard Gordon of BBC Sportsound fame.  Richard discusses his love for Aberdeen, but more importantly his passion about Scottish football and his career covering the game and some of the challenges covering the Dons (strangely enough 9-0 at Celtic Park sprang to mind!)   Richard has a book coming out covering the first World Cup he has a memory of;...

This week Harry is joined by financial whizzkid Hullbhoy to discuss Celtic, Lee Griffiths  and the implications of Scotland's newest club joining the ranks of Third Lanark, Gretna and Rangers as deceased clubs.   Before all of that discussion, Harry has a brief chat with Mark from the Celtic foundation about how to get involved in assisting the club raise funds for homeless charities in Glasgow.  ...

This week St Anthony is joined by former Celtic midfielder Dom Sullivan.   Dom signed for Celtic in 1979 from Aberdeen for the not too triffling amount of £80,000, following the road taken by his former manager Billy McNeil.  This was a time when squads were small, typically championship winning teams could have as few as 15 or 16 players making first team appearances through the season therefore...

PODIUM!   Sorry but how could I possibly have someone on discussing a CQN Book and not make one podium reference?  Anyway, this week I am joined by Brogan Rogan Trevino & Hogan to discuss the latest output from the Celtic conglomerate CQN - Seville: The Celtic Movement.   BRTH sets explains that at times many of us (especially the online Celtic community over the last 2 -3 years) can get too hung...