The Celtic Underground

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 more information, follow Hail H

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecelticunderground.substack.comEveryday 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 t

Down to businessAnother tale from the Celtic WikiIn 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:

St Mirren 0 - 3 CelticCeltic 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).I

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 subscriber. This is a public episode. If you�

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 Substack app, apple, amazon, goog

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 support our work, consider becoming a

A Rough JusticeAnother tale from the Celtic WikiIn 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 Human Torpedo recorded this slice of

The Man Who Couldn’t Be BoughtAnother tale from the Celtic WikiWhat 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 was renowned for his prowess and

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 wherever you get your podcasts as well