The Celticunderground podcast is produced by the people behind www.celticunderground.net. Just a few Celtic fans talking about Celtic, the greatest football team in the world.
Younger listeners will be stunned(!) to know that the BBC used to have quite and anti-Celtic stance and coverage. Under the authority of Peter Thompson, they really didn’t seem to like Celtic at all. Under Thompson, BBC Scotland’s Sports Department employed a sectarian recruitment policy akin to Rangers. Prejudice seeped into every aspect of BBC Sport coverage in Scotland but Jock Stein would have none of it.
Here’s the story.
For more on our history go toÂ
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/
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Celtic & Sligo
Another story from Hail Hail History
This week, Brendan will take a Celtic XI to play in Sligo, and in many ways he’s taking a team to the spiritual birthplace of the club. Â
This will not be the first time Celtic take a team across the sea to Sligo, with Celtic playing there back in 1975 with a team managed by Sligo man Sean Fallon.
For more information on Celtic’s history or the forthcoming free walking tour, go to @Hailhailhistory on Twitter
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Lee Dornan is a Celtic devotee who works in international affairs for SCIAF, a charity he sees with so many parallels to his beloved football club. And tying the two together is his claim that he has set up the first Celtic supporters' club in South Sudan.
He tells all about that and, with an accountant's obsession, how poring over Rangers and Celtic ac…
Straight after the 7-1 humbling to Dortmund, Lawrence Donegan and I sat down to review the game (and to discuss his substack daily blog about his travels across America).
The game was a tough watch but we tried to remove the rawness of the moment and discuss in the reality of the way the team plays week-in, week-out and and the players available.
After the trauma of the game, we then went on to talk about Lawrence’s roadtrip across America from California to Mar-a-Lago which he is documenting daily over at goodbyedonald.substack.com (and as he explains - it’s supposed to have a ? but substack don’t allow that in titles).
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Judas Part 2
Another tale from the Celtic Wiki
Last time we told the tale of the striker’s arrival at Celtic and his performances that contributed to the dramatic last day title win over Hearts. Today we hear about the story that led so many Celts to simply call Maurice Johnstone Judas.
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The Celts are off to Germany this week on Champions League duty.
The Bhoys will hope to build on their fantastic 5-1 start with another good performance.
It's far from Celtic's first visit to Germany. For that, you have to go back almost 120 years.
It's a tale of boats, trains, big wins and even the death of an iconic Celt.
For more, follow Hail Hail History on twitter.
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Judas Part 1
Another tale from the Celtic Wiki
For Celts of a certain age, there is not a name that illicits greater emotion than Mo Johnston. Signed in a record deal in October 1984 he was part of a Celtic forward line that should have achieved even more than it did and during that spell. He completed perhaps the greatest team goal in Celtic’s history in the 5-0 title triumph at Love Street.
He left but was set to return in a dramatic move in 1989 as Celtic set to try and wrestle the initiative back from Rangers.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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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.
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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.
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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 very popular and se we thought we should hear more from the man behind the stories.
In addition to the history tales on CU, Matthew has his own twitter feed with regular history updates and quizes Hail Hail History and he also has his Celtic history walking tours.
We’re sure you’ll want to know more so here’s Matthew with Harry.
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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 toÂ
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/
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