Celtic Underground

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It’s the international break and there is therefore still some football going on and we decided to use this two week fallow period to chat with a former Celt who is still playing at international level and down in the EPL.

In his chat with Andrew, Ryan covers his time at Celtic and gives an insight into how fraught a transfer window can be. He also disc…

This weekend the Celtic legends secured a penalty shoot-out victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford. This charity game saw thousands of pounds raised for the respective foundations. It was also another chapter in the annals of the famous links between both clubs and Celtic’s experiences at Old Trafford.

We therefore thought it appropriate to sneak out another tale from Hail Hail History

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Sometimes small actions can have big consequences. 8 September 2024 is151 years since the opening of Sacred Heart Church in Bridgeton. Without this event, there is a chance there would be no Celtic.

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Celtic’s First Cup Final (Glasgow Exhibition Cup)

Season1888-1889 not only saw Celtic’s first competitive game, but Celtic’s first, second and third cup finals. It would be a year of learning, losing, wining and controversy starting with The Glasgow Exhibition Cup, held to coincide with the International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry.

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Everyday is a school day as they say and we’re trying something different so if it doesn’t work out, we’ll have another go!

For your listening and viewing delights we have a mixture of prsentations (allegedly).

If you are a paid subscriber to the platform, you can watch or listen to the podcast featuring Andrew H, Ross Hall and Harry B was we discuss the …

Down to business

Another tale from the Celtic Wiki

In an ideal world, Celtic would never have been formed, because in an ideal world there would have been not poverty and discrimination.

But we don’t live in an ideal world and this tale from the Celtic wiki talsk about the formation of the club and how/when we changed from a charity to a business.

For more on our history go to 

https://www.thecelticwiki.com/

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St Mirren 0 - 3 Celtic

Celtic travelled all the way along the M8 to visit St Mirren in Paisley and ran out 3-0 winners.

The scoring began inside 3 minutes and from that point on Celtic looked comfortable and were never in any danger of dropping any points.  Three games into the season, three wins and no goals conceded (the only goal against so far was against Hibs in the League Cup).

It was two midfielders and a defender who got the goals today and the post match discussions with Brendan were all about whether we’d sign players and would they be the standard he is seeking.

We have the post game review and the post match presser by Brendan.  He’s in a good mood but bery pointed.  He knows where the issues lie and so do the executives.

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Celtic comfortably beat Hibs 3-1 in the Premier Sports League Cup fixture at Celtic Park today.

Following the game Harry B and Andrew H discussed the game and the general positivity about the club.

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Nineteenth season! Let that sink in. 19 seasons most of you have been listenning to this guff. Will you never learn? There are listeners to this podcast who weren’t born when it started. Goodness - there’s even a football club playing in the top flight that didn’t exist when this podcast started.

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The Celtic Underground podcast gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror and thinks “who’s that old bugger looking back at me?” It looks on with a paternal smile as some of the whippersnapper podcasts trumpet their new guest providing “exclusive insight” into an event of days gone by knowing that we interviewed that guy years ago when we both had all our hair and all our marbles. Enough of this maudlin meandering, we’ve got a new season to discuss!

On Sunday 4th August at 4:30pm the proper football returns with Celtic hosting Kilmarnock in our defence of the SPFL Premiership title and as we bid for our 4th title in a row and our 14th in 15 seasons (there’s a gap there but no-one went and no-one witnessed it. If no-one saw it can we even say it happened?).

Having already bagged the pre-season cup (first time in decades) we start our campaign with the possibility of winning up to 4 major trophies. The podcast features Hullbhoy, Ross Hall, Eddie Pearson and Harry Brady. There are obvious concerns about the lack of transfer activity in and the possibility of transfers out, but in general the bhoys are in fine fettle, predicting great days ahead.

Oh and for our brand new listener in Cambodia…can’t wait to hear of your tales of advanture!

It’s season 2024-25. It’s CUs 19th. Enjoy…

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If you’ve been online recently you will have noticed an increase in the number of bloggers and tweeters (or whatever people or X are called these days) review players and talent. One of the best of these guys is Ross Hall (the scout, not the hospital).

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In this podcast, Ross takes us on a journey that has seen him give up a succesful finance career and jump into the world of scouting and how and why he uses stats and uses his own eyes. Who does stats best and how they can be used to the benefit of Celtic. The chat went on for so long, we decided to postpone the analysis of the Celtic squad to next week. You never know, by then we might have actually signed an outfield player.

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