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The 9th of May

As the 1996/97 season drew to a close Celtic started to fall out the race for the Scottish title. The reality of our city rivals equalling our 9 in a row record had just about been confirmed. A small glimmer of hope remained that some silverware could be salvaged through the Scottish Cup. A semi-final replay against Falkirk at Ibrox stadium on Wednesday 23rd April 1997 would represent our last chance to maybe secure a token of success for the season.

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On a night when the weather conditions were awful Celtic lost 1-0 to Falkirk which pretty much ended our season. I sat near the front of the Govan Road stand at Ibrox with my future wife Linda that night and we were both soaked through in the incessant rain. When I got home I went to sleep hoping to wake up from a bad dream.

I became unwell overnight with flu like symptoms and I deteriorated over the next few days. I was admitted to Glasgow Royal infirmary on Saturday 26th April with a suspected stroke, but after multiple tests, scans and exam- inations the doctors discovered that I had contracted Bacterial Endocarditis which was stopping my heart from functioning properly. Broken-hearted if you like.

For the next 2 weeks, I would drift in and out of conscious- ness and was given intravenous antibiotics, but it became clear that the drugs were not going to be enough to help me fight the infection. My consultants visited me around the 6th May to confirm that I would need emergency lifesaving surgery.

On the 9th May 1997 I made my way to theatre for open-heart surgery, undergoing a pulmonary valve replacement. I spent the vast majority of the day in surgery as the surgeons tried to repair the damage done to my heart.

The following day my condition worsened and I went into cardi- ac arrest, I would need to go through further emergency surgery that day to save my life. My family and my girlfriend Linda were given the news that the next few hours would be crucial.

I would spend another 10 days in intensive care as my condition slowly improved. I was moved back to a ward in the hospital 2 weeks after surgery and began my post operation rehab, it was then that I found out Rangers had equalled our 9-in-a-row record and that our coach Tommy Burns had been sacked as Celtic manager.

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I was discharged from hospital in early June to continue with my recovery; thankfully I had a big family and supportive girlfriend to see me through those early months.

On the 3rd July the Scottish sports writers started to make some noise on the radio suggesting a new manager was on his way to Celtic Park, I took a trip to the stadium with my brother Benny to see Wim Jansen unveiled as the new boss. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of him as a player or a manager.

Plenty of players came and went over the course of the next few months, Paolo Di Canio left for Sheffield Wednesday, we made some new signings like Craig Burley and Darren Jackson. However, it was the arrival of a forwardfromWimJansen’sformerclubFeyenoordthat helped spark the team.

A slow start to our league campaign meant we would have play catch up on our rivals. A battle of Britain UEFA cup-tie against Liverpool seemed to lift the players and the club but it wasn’t enough as we lost the tie on away goals.

A last-minute header from Alan Stubbs secured a draw at home against Rangers, a result that would prove incredi- bly valuable at the end of season. November ended with a League Cup Final visit to Ibrox, the scene of our defeat to Falkirk earlier in the year and where my serious illness seamed to start.

My brother George managed to secure me a ticket for the match and I watched on as Celtic beat Dundee Utd 3-0 to win the League Cup for the first time in 15 years. The euphoria of winning that day reverberated around the Ibrox stands; a trophy that had been out of our grasp for so long was coming back to Celtic Park, but our main aim must be to stop Rangers reaching 10-in-a-row.

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Every match had the feeling of a must-win game, none more so than the traditional New Year derby with our city rivals. My brother-in-law gave me his ticket for the match that day. Celtic controlled the match from start to finish and we were rewarded with a fine two nil victory, both goals superb and both coming from new players signed by Jansen. Celtic had won their first New-Years Day derby since 1988 and were back in the race for the title.

As the league season came to an end, the pressure on both teams was beginning to tell. On the second last weekend of the season Rangers lost to Kilmarnock at Ibrox, a result that gave Celtic the chance to win the title with a win the following day against Dunfermline.

The tension got to the law- yers and we could only earn a draw losing a goal in the last few minutes. The match finished 1-1. The League title would be decided one week first anniversary of my life-saving heart operation.

I didn’t have a ticket for the match against St Johnstone and in the age before wall-to-wall TV coverage, my dad and I were left listening to the radio for updates.

All Celtic had to do was win the match at home and we would be Scottish Champions for the first time in 10 years.

Within the first three minutes of the radio commentary we were celebrating the news of a goal for Celtic through Henrik Larsson. However nerves on the pitch meant that Celtic struggled to add that 2nd goal that would give us some breathing space.

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News came through from Tannadice that Rangers were winning against Dundee Utd. If Celtic slipped up the league would be lost to our biggest rivals.

I’d had enough and couldn’t listen anymore, so went to my room and hoped for the best, I was switching the radio on and off checking for the score and turned on the radio just in time to hear the commentator describe Harald Brattbakk scoring the 2nd goal for Celtic securing our first championship in 10 years.

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Martin Donaldson is a Glasgow East End Bhoy,  He made my first trip to Celtic Park in 1983 for a 0-0 draw with Brechin City & thankfully that never put him off going back.   He now sits perched high in section 409 of the North Stand with his 2 kids making memories along the Celtic Way.

He loves picking out those matches from yester-year to find out much more about the legendary names & faces that have graced the Celtic Jersey over the years.  He is a keen fundraiser for The Celtic Foundation & The British Heart Foundation as they both strive to  make a difference and to change peoples lives all over the world.

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Ange Postecoglou take a Bow

He came, he saw, he changed it, he brought in quality players, released, or sold those who didn’t want to be at Celtic Park. He made Dad jumpers popular again, he picked up awards along the way, won the league cup and into Europe after Christmas and now he has guided Celtic to the league title. Ange Postecoglou take a bow.

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On Saturday at full time the fans inside Celtic Park stood and applauded the Champions elect after coming from 1-0 down to win 4-1 and put on a second half show for everyone to enjoy. Celtic’s 20 plus goal difference will see Celtic over the line with 2 games to go they sit 6 points clear of nearest rivals the Rangers.

Outside the stadium young fans waited to see the managers and his players and they were not disappointed when they all took time out to sign autographs and pose for pictures. These are days that the young fans will cherish for years to come.

In building such a strong squad and with very few injuries Ange can make like for like substitutions and now all our thoughts turn to Tannadice on Wednesday night. The party got started Saturday when the final whistle blew, and it will continue as supporters’ bus’s role out of Glasgow on route to Dundee for our final away day of the season.

Saturday will see the trophy coming home and it will go back into the cabinet that housed it for almost a decade before its loan spell across the city. Once the celebrations are done, Ange’s attention will turn to strengthening the team for next season and the Champions League when we will once again dine at the top table of European football.

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Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes Celtic Fanzine which he started in 2001. He has been involved with fanzines since 1989 and has written for numerous publications and online about Celtic.  He is a former newspaper columnist with the Daily Ireland and the man behind celticfanzine.com. He is host of the Celtic Soul Podcast, Talk form the Terrace Podcast, Grand Auld History Podcast & Celtic AM pre-match events at Murphy’s in Glasgow on match days and follows Celtic Home & Away. He is a season ticket holder for Celtic FC and the Republic of Ireland. He is also P.R.O. of St. Margaret’s CSC, a member of the Celtic Trust and the Celtic Graves Association.

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Time to get the League wrapped up and start Celebrating

Celtic take on third place Hearts on Saturday, with the chance to extend the lead at the top to nine points with two games to play, all but winning the league, Rangers would have to win by cricket scores in their three remaining matches to overtake us and hope we lost our last two, it’s quite simply not going to happen.

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Last weekend was a strange one, Celtic should have been a couple of goals up at half time before Rangers found their way back into it in the second half, they then hit the post, a draw was probably the right result. That was a must win game for Rangers to have had any hope of winning the league and it was a bit surprising seeing them celebrate at the end when they had failed to do so. Let’s hope we get the job done against Hearts with the stadium rocking.

Hearts have had an impressive season, after promotion back to the Premiership, they have the cup final to look forward to at the end of the season and are sitting 17 points ahead of 4th placed Dundee United. They have a record of won 17, drawn 10 and lost 8. The Jambos are unbeaten since a 2-1 away defat to St Johnstone on 19th February.

The last meeting between the sides was a 2-1 victory for the hoops at Tynecastle on 26th January, Reo Hatate and Giakoumakis the goal scorers, Liam Boyce was the Hearts scorer.

Time to get the League wrapped up and start celebrating.

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Mick Kane hails from Glasgow. He has been hooked on Celtic since he went to his first game when he was 7. Celtic beat Hamilton 8-3 at Celtic Park on the 3rd of January 1987. His favourite player at the time, Brian McClair scored four goals.

He started going regular as a 16 year old when Celtic played at Hampden for the season, being a Southsider it meant a short train journey to get to Hampden. From then he has had a season ticket travelled around Europe for games as Celtic became the dominant force in Scottish football again. A nice change from growing up during Rangers run to 9 in a row.

 

 

Celtic v Hearts – Albert Kidd, Willie Wallace & Bitter Wee ….

It is a shame that Hearts supporters and Celtic supporters do not like each other. Anyone who has ever been in the company of Hearts supporters whenever Celtic are mentioned will know exactly what I mean. Even in the politest of Edinburgh households where everything is all charming and middle class, the very word “Celtic” can be guaranteed to bring a coldness, a venom, an anger and indeed a lasting bitterness that is actually difficult to fathom.

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Celtic fans, for their part, often refer to Hearts as the “wee H**s”. Yet what else can they be called when their fans (or at least the less well educated of them) sing offensive, sectarian songs which have little enough place in Govan and Larkhall, let alone Gorgie and Dalry in a city, which for all its faults, has no great tradition of sectarianism –  at least not since the days of Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox!  (When supporters of Dundee jumped on the same bandwagon, it became even more ludicrous!) And we know that it is all about Hibs as well, but possibly it is more about Albert Kidd and Willie Wallace.

Enough has been said and written about Albert Kidd and 1986, but the hatred possibly started when Willie Wallace joined Celtic from Hearts in December 1966, and six months later won the European Cup with his new team. This inspired Stein signing has to be seen in the context of the 1960s, in particular the day of April 24 1965 when Celtic and Hearts effectively changed places. Celtic won the Scottish Cup that day, and Hearts blew the Scottish League by losing 0-2 to Kilmarnock. Almost overnight, Celtic became the main challengers to Rangers (and of course overcame that challenge!) and Hearts started the slippery slope to mediocrity, relegation and (almost) liquidation. The sale of Willie Wallace was a clear indication of this process, and by the late 1970s, Hearts were experiencing their first of several relegations.

And yet, it wasn’t always like that. Hearts were the main challengers to Celtic in the 1890s, winning the League in 1895 and 1897, and they won the Scottish Cup in 1891, 1896, 1901 and 1906. They beat Celtic (narrowly) in the 1901 Scottish Cup final, but their defeat by Willie Maley’s great side in the 1907 final plunged Hearts into a trophy famine that lasted almost 50 years. Rightly are they proud of their team which enlisted en masse for the 1914-18 slaughter, and they have tried hard to argue (unconvincingly) that Celtic stole the League Championship of 1915 from them by “war dodging”. It simply does not hold water. Hearts’ players were still available that season, and they simply cracked under pressure.

Between the wars, they always had good players – Alec Massie, Tommy Walker, Barney Battles junior for example, but never a great team, and it was only in the 1950s, that Hearts rose again. Arguably, Hearts missed a trick by not joining forces with Scottish Rugby when Murrayfield (just over the railway) was built in 1925. It could have been a relationship that was beneficial to both parties, and Hearts could have been able to expand, and might even have become the “establishment” team of Scotland, instead of allowing the sectarian bigots of Glasgow to assume that mantle. As it was, Hearts festered in mediocrity at Tynecastle with a huge but frustrated support.

In the 1950s, however, under Tommy Walker, and with great players like Dave MacKay, Willie Bauld, Jimmy Wardhaugh, Alec Young and Alfie Conn senior, Hearts won the Scottish League in 1958 and 1960, the Scottish League Cup in 1954/55, 1958/59, 1959/60 and 1962/63, with their greatest triumph over Celtic being the Scottish Cup final of 1956 when they won 3-1. Many questions were asked about that game as far as Celtic were concerned – not least a virtually unbelievable team selection – but no-one could argue that Hearts didn’t deserve to win.

But then of course we had 1959 when Hearts might have won the League at Parkhead on the last day of the season. Celtic had played rubbish all season, were nowhere near winning anything, but then suddenly turned it on that last day of the season and beat Hearts 2-1. It was a great result – but there was only one problem. The win over Hearts meant that the League title went elsewhere – to Ibrox in fact. Rangers had lost to Aberdeen that day, but won the League thanks to Celtic beating Hearts! We did not know whether to laugh or cry!

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Celtic and Hearts supporters never really liked each other – they were two large teams with a big fan base, and there was a little of the Glasgow v Edinburgh rivalry as well – but it has only been in the past 50 or 60 years that the sectarian edge has become evident. And that is a great shame.

And so to 2022. If Hearts beat us on Saturday, they will be very happy indeed. We can expect little sympathy. After all, leaving aside 1986, we also beat them in the Scottish Cup finals of 2019 and 2020 (remember them? Odsonne Edouard in 2019, and the penalties in 2020?) and is now ten years ago in 2012 that they last won anything. About time they won the Scottish Cup again, is it not? I think I will support them this year for the Scottish Cup. The Jambos for the Cup! Who have they got in the Final?

Born in 1948, David Potter first saw Celtic at Dens Park, Dundee in March 29. It was a 3-5 defeat, which equipped him admirably for the horrors of the early 1960’s. He had “followed” Celtic for a few years before that and recalls having been called upon to impersonate Jock Stein and receive the family silver teapot which had to do for the Scottish Cup as it was presented on April 24 1954, after he and his father had spent a nerve wracking afternoon listening to the radio!  Since then, he has “followed” every Celtic game with bated breath, and has written extensively about the club in magazines and books. His favorite team was that of 1969 (which he rates marginally better than 1967) and his favorite player was Henrik Larsson.

His ambition for Celtic is for them to keep on winning silver in Scotland and to be something in Europe once again. His other interests are cricket and drama. He is 70, a retired teacher of Classical Languages, married with three children and five grandchildren. He now travels on the Joseph Rafferty bus from Kirkcaldy. He also loves Forfar Athletic.

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Talk from the Terrace – Glasgow Derby, Hearts Preview, Mark Lawell & Historical Transfers

More than 90 Minutes Editor, Andrew Milne welcomes back Matt McGlone, Editor of the Alternative View for a catch up on Talk from the Terrace show on the Celtic Soul Podcast. The Bhoys look back on Sundays Glasgow Derby v the Rangers.

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Celtic shared the points on the day to keep their 6 points-gap from their nearest rivals with 3 games to go and a healthy goal difference of 19 as we go into Saturday’s game against Hearts at Celtic Park in another lunchtime kick off which the Bhoys preview.

The Japanese factor is discussed and the rotation of Rogic and O’Reilly and the differences offered by Kyogo and Giakoumakis leading the Celtic line.

Hearts have secured their place in Europe and are guaranteed third place which would have been their target at the start of the campaign, and they have a Cup Final to look forward to. Maybe they will have one eye on the Cup but for us it’s all about the Celtic because the title has still to be won.

The Rangers will play Sunday at 3pm against Dundee United at Ibrox. The visitors have a European place to battle for with Ross County and Motherwell so should be well up for the game.

Mark Lawell has been announced as Head of Scouting and Recruitment this week and the bhoys discuss his arrival and Ange Postecoglou’s reaction to his latest recruit who he has worked closely with before.

The bhoys also discuss the pro and cons of Celtic fans at Ibrox and the FC Statement fans at Celtic Park. As the transfer window approaches, Matt looks back in time to the transfers of Davie Hay, Kenny Dalglish, Kieran Tierney, and the departure of Henrik Larrson to Barcelona.

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Ange lines up Blackburn Rovers & Norwich City at Celtic Park

Celtic will then take on Blackburn Rovers at Celtic Park on Saturday, July 16 with a 12.30pm kick-off for the first game of the new term at Paradise.

Then, Norwich City will head north with the Celts welcoming the Canaries for a 3pm kick-off at Celtic Park the following weekend on Saturday, July 23 – both games will be included on the 2022/23 Season Ticket.

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Celtic return to Austria for 2022/23 pre-season training camp

The Hoops are returning once more to Austria for their pre-season preparations for the 2022/23 season with Ange Postecoglou’s men playing their first matches of next term on the continent this summer followed by games against English outfits here at Celtic Park in the shape of Blackburn Rovers and Norwich City.

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Celtic return to Austria after spending the 2019 pre-season there, when they also hopped over the border to Switzerland to play the club’s first ever VAR match in a friendly against St Gallen.

On return from the Austrian trip in 2019, the Celts, of course, went on to complete the unprecedented Quadruple Treble.

The Celts will travel to Austria for the 10-day camp in the first week of July, playing a number of matches with further details to be announced.

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Celtic Going to the next level

The rollercoaster season that we have all been part of on this journey with Ange, since his arrival up Kerrydale St last summer, continues tobringussuchepichighsaswellas(let’sbe honest) the odd low, as is the nature of football. I’ve no doubts there will be many people writing within this magazine about the unbelievable buzz and the high that we all got on February the 2nd 2022 when we thumped the Rangers (2012) 3-0 under the Paradise disco lights on a never to be forgotten epic Derby victory.

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On a personal note, I had brought over a couple of friends, two individuals living local to me, who would not have been fortunate enough to be born into the Celtic Faith and were very much more wrapped up within the wonderful world of the GAA back here in Dublin. It was an experience that both named was truly unique to say the least, describing it as the best life experience they ever had outside of their children’s birth. Strong words, but who am I to argue. Both individuals have unfortunately in recent years struggled with illness, thankfully they are overcoming these illnesses and I received a message from both separately following the game, saying that being present onsuchnightsreallygavethemanapprecia- tion of the joys that life can bring you.

I think this resonates greatly with so many of us for whom Celtic is such a focal point in our lives and – out with family and employment – it really is the top priority. It also reinforced how magical it is to be back in Paradise at such nights. It’s a special place with special people and that Wednesday night reinforced to a wider audience watching on television everything that is magical about our beloved club.

Someone once said to me they always felt bringing a friend or colleague to Celtic Park who had never experienced it before was like showing off your house. You really wanted to impress them and by God it’s fair to say the house was looking immaculate that Wednes- day evening.

I did open the piece naming the fact that there has indeed been a couple of disappoint- ments and let’s be honest, they have almost exclusively been kept for Europe following our initial bumpy start domestically. The post-Christmas European disappointments are certainly not a new thing, and it is quite a frightening statistic to think that you must go back to that epic victory over Barcelona in March 2004 since we last won a knockout game after Christmas in Europe.

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GRACE – This story and song is very much imbedded in the hearts and minds of Irish men and women

This week commemorates the anniversary of the beautiful, but heart-breaking story of the wedding between Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford. The events of the Easter rising in 1916 thrust Irish independence and freedom from British hands back in to the worlds focus. Even with the great war raging in mainland Europe, the quest for home rule brought bloodshed to the streets of Ireland and to Dublin in particular. The response from the British government was brutal and controversial, but not unexpected as the main revolutionary leaders of the Irish rebel forces were executed in the aftermath of the uprising.

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In the decades that followed the Easter rising balladeers retold the story of the critical events and leaders that shaped those initial steps towards an Irish Republic. In 1985, with the 70th anniversary of the Easter rising on the horizon, brothers Sean and Frank O’Meara penned “Grace” retelling the story of the celebration of the marriage of Joseph Plunkett to his fiancée Grace Gifford in the chapel at Kilmainham Gaol shortly before Plunkett was executed early the next morning. This story and song is very much imbedded in the hearts and minds of Irish men and women across the world and has been performed by all types of musicians to global acclaim.

The song itself was immediately celebrated by the Irish public with ex Dubliner Jim McCann’s version spending 36 weeks in the Irish charts. The widespread Irish diaspora ensured the song became globally recognised as different generations of Irish people embraced the ballad in their adopted homeland.

In the early days of my brother George’s singing career, he would perform in a number of pubs in and round Glasgow singing Irish songs of love, hope and freedom. In 1989 he was asked to support Jim McCann at the City Halls in Glasgow, a real honour for George who was only 21 at the time. A number of family and friends, my mum included attended the show supporting George in his first performance in a major venue.

With George able to relax after his performance, we sat back and enjoyed Jim McCann weave his magic through his back catalogue of Irish ballads including Grace. This was the first time I had heard the song and you could immediately feel the depth of meaning in the song amongst the crowd in the City Halls.

During the centenary celebrations of the Easter rising in 2016 Grace was proudly sung in schools and theatres from Dublin to Donegal and Skibereen to Sligo. In the 30+ years that have passed since the song was first written; Grace has become a symbol of the romantic ideology in which Irish people remember the sacrifice of the leaders of the Easter rising.

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Martin Donaldson is a Glasgow East End Bhoy,  He made my first trip to Celtic Park in 1983 for a 0-0 draw with Brechin City & thankfully that never put him off going back.   He now sits perched high in section 409 of the North Stand with his 2 kids making memories along the Celtic Way.

He loves picking out those matches from yester-year to find out much more about the legendary names & faces that have graced the Celtic Jersey over the years.  He is a keen fundraiser for The Celtic Foundation & The British Heart Foundation as they both strive to  make a difference and to change peoples lives all over the world.

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Title Decider: Who Starts Giakoumakis or Kyogo? Or Maybe Both?

It’s the big one on Sunday, a Glasgow derby in which Celtic can extend their lead over their rivals to 9 points with a win. With only 9 points to play for, after the game, then it is all but a title decider, as we have a healthy advantage of goals scored.

 

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I think most Celtic fans went into the cup semi-final against Rangers in confident mood, expecting them to tire after their Europa league exertions however truth be told, we never played well on the day and didn’t deserve anything, that being said, we still went to extra time and had a chance to win the game had CCV scored, so it was very much fine margins, despite the fact we never played well.

This time I think our confidence will be tempered however we are very much in pole position, although we would rather win, a draw would not be the worst result, Rangers really need to win to have any chance of winning the league.

Last weekend’s result against Ross County was massive, they would have all been watching hoping and praying for a slip up, in the end it was a fairly comfortable win, although it did take the late goal from Jota to settle some nerves. Both games up in Dingwall have proved crucial to our title aspirations. The Tony Ralson winner deep in injury time in December was a big turning point, I remember saying to people afterwards that I then believed we would go on to win the league such was the importance of the result. The same can be said for last week.

With Giakoumakis back from injury, it gives Ange a dilemma, will he go for the big Greek who has tormented the Rangers defence in the previous two league games or go for Kyogo, fresh from injury himself and back in the goals last week. Ange could through a curveball and play both. The only real injury is for Juranovic, Ralston played well last week and shouldn’t be a worry stepping in.

Lets hope its another Beautiful Sunday as we all but wrap up the league.

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Mick Kane hails from Glasgow. He has been hooked on Celtic since he went to his first game when he was 7. Celtic beat Hamilton 8-3 at Celtic Park on the 3rd of January 1987. His favourite player at the time, Brian McClair scored four goals.

He started going regular as a 16 year old when Celtic played at Hampden for the season, being a Southsider it meant a short train journey to get to Hampden. From then he has had a season ticket travelled around Europe for games as Celtic became the dominant force in Scottish football again. A nice change from growing up during Rangers run to 9 in a row.

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