Martin O’Neill’s Midas touch ensured that Celtic have a three-goal lead to take to Linz in the second leg of the European Champions League play-off next Tuesday evening… After sealing an unlikely, but DESERVED Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup double last season, O’Neill had his work cut out to assimilate his new players, whilst others left in search of fortune and glory. Those players may well be looking over their shoulders with a wry smile; fortune and glory may well be found at the very club they abandoned! It initially looked like they chose wisely after only five minutes in…
Author: Eddie Murray
The cataclysmic outrage levelled against Celtic, the referee, VAR, and even the ‘hidden Vatican hand’, has dominated every media outlet, blog, and social media post around the country and beyond… It’s all been focussed on one footballing incident; the handball, and foul on Celtic’s Auston Trusty by Motherwell’s Sam Nicholson. There; fixed that for you. When you analyse the facts without reaching for your bag of Pampers, there was a clear and obvious foul in the box. Two actually when you break it down. The ball was launched from a throw-in, Trusty went to header said ball, and Nicholson threw…
Celebrating The Great Danny McGrain – Anyone lucky enough to have witnessed Danny McGrain at the peak of his powers in the 1970s and ‘80s will testify that Drumchapel’s finest is a true footballing great in every sense… Celtic legend Danny McGrain is seen during the Betfred Cup Final between Aberdeen and Celtic at Hampden Park on November 27, 2016. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images) I was fortunate to have been weaned on the Lisbon Lions, and subsequently those upcoming legends of the game, The Quality Street Kids. Kenny Dalglish, George Connolly, David Hay, Pat McCluskey, Victor Davidson, Lou Macari,…