When Celtic take on St Johnstone tomorrow they will be going for a remarkable league clean sheet record. Matthew from Hail Hail History tells us more. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com/subscribe…

Celtic fans will still be dreaming of the 5 goals we scored last midweek against slovan Bratislava and looking forward to the rest of the European campaign with renewed ethusiasm and a sense of expectation of what could be. Following that marvellous result, Matthew of HAILHAILHISTORY decided to look back on previous big Celtic European results. Enj…

Subscribers to The Celtic Underground podcast will have getting their weekly free 10 minute Celtic history hits on their podcast feed and substack emails. You may have noticed that interspersed in among the human torpedo re-runs of the tales from The Celtic Wiki that we’ve had some new history hits. These Hail Hail History hits have been proving ve…

This is the remarkable story of when the Chief Executive of the Scottish Football association actively engaged in preventing Celtic from fielding their new star striker signing. Fergus want to war with Farry and eventually won. Here’s the story. For more on our history go to https://www.thecelticwiki.com/ Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you’d l…

Tonight Celtic face Slovan Bratislava 60 years on from the two clubs first meeting. That previous encounter was in the quarter final of the Cup Winners Cup. The home leg came first. It played in February 1964 in front of 53,000 expectant fans. This is the story of that game. Enjoy… The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. …

This week Celtic kick off our 13th UCL campaign and do so in the new UCL league format, we shall see what that brings. The boys, with the help of a scouting report from Ross Hall, preview the game and discuss the UCL in general. The boys also discuss the forthcoming subscriber vote on the greatest Celtic UCL XI. Enjoy Thanks for reading The Celtic …

This Saturday sees the first visit to Glasgow this season by the team from Midlothian. We don’t have an especially warm relationship with the team often referred to as the lesser version of a certain Glasgow team and the obvious question - has it always been thus? Well, listen to this tale from Matthew of Hail Hail History to find out. Enjoy… The C…

Robert Austin Thomson played for Celtic from 1929 into the 1930s alongside club legend Jimmy McGrory. His finest year in a Celtic jersey came in 1931 when he was the star of the cup final against Motherwell. Thomson lived a life of excess and died suddenly at the age of just 30 leaving a wife and two young children. Here’s the story. For more on ou…

Celtic pulled the rabbit out of the hat that Andrew H mentioned on here and brought in players on the final day of the window - lifelong Celtic fan Luke McCowan and Belgian prodigy Arne Engels. Signed on the last night of the window, the players both made their debuts in the comfortable Glasgow Derby win and then met with the press this week. We ha…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com 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 c…

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…

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. For more information, follow Hail Hail History Enjoy… The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and suppo…

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. For m…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com 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 platfor…

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. …

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 w…

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. The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscribe…

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. (You can pick up this podcast for free on this Subst…

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). The Celtic Underground Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and suppo…

A Rough Justice Another tale from the Celtic Wiki In March 2011, Celtic & Rangers engaged in “The Shame Game”. It was a match that involved Rangers players losing the plot and finished with the hyperbole of Alex Salmond summoning then CEOs of Celtic and Rangers (Lawwell & Bain) to a summit to discuss the bahviour of both clubs. At the time The Huma…

If you’ve not already done so, please listen to Part 1 of this two part interview with Andrew H Smith on what it was really like being inside Celtic before, during and after the McCann revoltion. As he says - Fergus was a man on a mission and a man with a singular vision on how he wanted Celtic to be as a club and Andre was there, every day, docume…

The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought Another tale from the Celtic Wiki What is it about Jimmy McGrory that makes him one of, if not the, greatest ever Celts? He’s our all time leading scorer with 522 goals in 501 games and holds the record for the most goals in a season, with 62 goals from 46 games. Although he was only five feet and six inches tall, he …

We debated long and hard as to whether to publish this podcast because no matter waht we did, we couldn’t resolve the sound distortion issues - especially with Eddie’s mic. Ultimately we decided - what the heck. The worst of it appears to be at the beginning and the end. So this is a free podcast from Celtic Underground. It can be picked up whereve…

French Farce Another tale from the Celtic Wiki The Anglo-Franco-Scottish Friendship Cup was a short-lived Inter-League football competition organised by the French Football Federation that would see teams from the English Football League and the Scottish League compete against teams from the French League. The original idea was to have four teams f…

The Rebels have won 4th March 1994 and Fergus McCann and Brian Dempsey step out into a dark and rainy Glasgow night to make the famous declaration - The game is over, the rebels have won. Jubilation abound and tonight, as we publish this tale from The Celtic Wiki, we remember one of the unsung heroes of that takeover battle - John Keane who sdaly p…