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Celtic Park will be in Full Voice

It’s match day and the Bhoys are back. No Monday morning blues as Celtic fans look forward to getting back to Paradise tonight with fans boarding buses, boats and planes and heading for Glasgow.

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After the high of Celtic winning the League Cup only a few nights later we left Paisley disappointed on a wet and cold night after dropping two points against St. Mirren before the restrictions hit in and none of us could travel to the game with the exception of the Bhoys on the hill.

A Daily Mail reporter was up to no good trying to spout out some lies about the Celtic fans clashing with the Police on the day we beat St. Johnstone before an earlier than scheduled Winter break. Thankfully JP Taylor, Celtic’s SLO was there to let the truth be known.

Ange was kept busy during the shutdown with transfers and on New Year’s Eve we announced the signing on Maedo, Reo and Guchi and we hope to see one or two of the new bhoys in action tonight. We can’t afford anymore slip ups in the league if we want to close the gap on our city rivals the Rangers.

It’s good to be back, Celtic Park will be in full voice let’s hope those disco lights are shining bright come full time.

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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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More than 90 Minutes Issue 119 E-Zine On Sale

Issue 119 kicks off 2022 for us and this year sees the fanzine celebrate 21 years of sharing our Celtic Fan journey and reporting on the issues that concern Celtic FC and the fans who follow the club.

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The cover design was inspired by the performance of King Kyogo in the League Cup Final, Ange Postecoglou’s first six months in charge and the arrival of Maeda, Guchi and Reo to bolster up the squad for an assault on the SPFL title.

Inside we look back on that great cup final win over Hibs and reflect back on 2021 and look ahead to the rest of the season. It’s a New Year and New Look Celtic. The League Cup has not always been a happy hunting ground for Celtic and we look at how tears have been turned to cheers at Hampden in recent years.

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New features include Celtic 11 and ask a Bayer Leverkusen fan how was it for you. Regular contributors Andrew Milne, Rachel Lynch, Eoin Coyne, Ciaran Kenny, Martin Donaldson, Liam Kelly, David Potter, Tim Molloy and Lisbon Lion John Fallon all have their say on Celtic.

GOAL! features Tommy Gemmell’s away day equalizer in 1966 v Dinamo Kiev. Former Celtic managers Ronnie Delia and Jimmy McStay feature. All Our Yesterdays features the month of January from over the decades

Harry Hood, Twice as Good gets the review treatment, Tim Molloy reviews some Christmas reading and we look back at what’s been happening in the MSM and across independent Celtic Fan Media.

Inside another 48-page packed edition you will also find all the regular features plus Poetry, Cartoons, Comments and the return of our First, Worst and Last alongside the Celtic Panel, Fan Focus and the Anorak. Brian Hogan CSC feature as our guests as we re-introduce our CSC Focus.

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More than 90 Minutes Issue 119 – King Kyogo

Pre-Order More than 90 Minutes Issue 119 Print Edition and get a FREE digital edition into your Inbox while you wait for the fanzine to drop through your letter box.

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Issue 119 kicks off 2022 for us and this year sees the fanzine celebrate 21 years of sharing our Celtic Fan journey and reporting on the issues that concern Celtic FC and the fans who follow the club.

The cover design was inspired by the performance of King Kyogo in the League Cup Final, Ange Postecoglou’s first six months in charge and the arrival of Maeda, Guchi and Reo to bolster up the squad for an assault on the SPFL title.

Inside we look back on that great cup final win over Hibs and reflect back on 2021 and look ahead to the rest of the season. It’s a New Year and New Look Celtic. The League Cup has not always been a happy hunting ground for Celtic and we look at how tears have been turned to cheers at Hampden in recent years.

New features include Celtic 11 and ask a Bayer Leverkusen fan how was it for you. Regular contributors Andrew Milne, Rachel Lynch, Eoin Coyne, Ciaran Kenny, Martin Donaldson, Liam Kelly, David Potter, Tim Molloy and Lisbon Lion John Fallon all have their say on Celtic.

GOAL! features Tommy Gemmell’s away day equalizer in 1966 v Dinamo Kiev. Former Celtic managers Ronnie Delia and Jimmy McStay feature. All Our Yesterdays features the month of January from over the decades

Harry Hood, Twice as Good gets the review treatment, Tim Molloy reviews some Christmas reading and we look back at what’s been happening in the MSM and across independent Celtic Fan Media.

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Inside another 48-page packed edition you will also find all the regular features plus Poetry, Cartoons, Comments and the return of our First, Worst and Last alongside the Celtic Panel, Fan Focus and the Anorak. Brian Hogan CSC feature as our guests as we re-introduce our CSC Focus.

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Without Nicholas, Celtic’s decline continued

Charlie Nicholas, June 1983.

A man of rare talent, freely compared to Pele and even Patsy Gallacher (and that is saying something) by my father. This immature young man was prevailed upon by cynical newspaper journalists and grasping agents to sell his birth right and to go to England.

A talent that had rarely been seen was then ruined by the method football and the brutal defenders in England. Whereas what we had seen at Celtic Park, for all too brief a period was something exceptional.

In April 1983 he did not turn out for Celtic in a Scottish Cup semi-final against Aberdeen (and yes, yes, we all knew where he was – he was “detained” somewhere secure, they told me!) and predictably Celtic lost, and then proceeded to blow up in the League as well when we had seemed to have had it won.

It was a very sad time of Celtic’s history, and a few weeks after Nicholas left, so too did Manager Billy McNeill. There was no apparent connection between the two departures, we were told, but it was difficult to believe.

Without Nicholas, Celtic’s decline continued as we won nothing the following season, the year 1984 being a particular collector’s item of Celtic horror stories.

Life in Glasgow for New Celtic Japanese Bhoys

Celtic’s new Japanese Bhoys talk about joining Celtic Football Club when they sat down with members of independent Celtic Fan Media from the world of fanzines, websites, podcasts on YouTube Channels.

More than 90 Minutes Editor, Andrew Milne was there to meet and chat to Reo Hatate, Yosuke Ideguchi and Daizen Maeda and find out how they are settling into life in Glasgow as a Celtic FC player.

 

 

Callum McGregor “We’re all together, we’re all as one”

Celtic Football Club is pleased that having reached the end of current restrictions, supporters will be able to return to matches in Scotland from Monday and we look forward in particular to Monday’s match against Hibernian at Celtic Park.

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Our supporters are everything and we can’t wait to welcome you back to Paradise.

The Club notes that additional measures will be required in terms of vaccination and covid certification checks around the match. We will be providing a full explanation of these as soon as possible in order that supporters are fully aware of all match arrangements.

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Celtic Captain Callum McGregor said: “It’s great to get the supporters in, to get full houses and get them backing the team singing and enjoying the football.

“We’re all together, we’re all as one and when the place is rocking, we’re rocking. so we’re delighted they’ll get back in supporting the team and we’ll give everything for them as well”.

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Hatate – The challenge to grow at Celtic

Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Reo Hatate (pronounced Rayo), who represented Japan alongside Maeda at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics and secured his first Best XI selection in the league.

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Dan Orlowitz of the Japan Times writes – Hatate, the only one of the trio to have not played overseas, will be valued by Postecoglou not only for his technique with the ball and keen passing sense, but also the versatility that saw him start the season at left back, transition to his usual place at left wingback and be named to the league’s Best XI as a forward — his registered position.

Although he has just two years of pro soccer to his credit, both were spent as a starter in a talent-stacked Frontale squad that rolled to its third and fourth league titles. Hatate’s collegiate career is nothing to sneer at either, from his Rookie of the Year award and three Best XI selections in the Kanto University Soccer League to repeated trips to represent Japan at underage events such as the prestigious Toulon Tournament, the Asian Games and the World University Games.

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“If I hadn’t chosen to join Frontale, I wouldn’t have experienced as much as I have in my first two years since graduating,” Hatate said in his farewell statement. “I’m so glad that I’ve played for this team and I’m thankful to everyone at the club for treating me so warmly.

“As a player and a person I want to challenge myself to grow (at Celtic) and I will be grateful if Frontale fans continue to think of me.”

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Why Kenny Why?

Kenny Dalglish, August 1977.

Undeniably the best player of the day, life looked good for Kenny and Celtic in 1977 after a League and Cup Double, the hope even being expressed that another assault on Europe might take place soon.

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But Kenny’s head was turned, there was clearly some sort of personality clash between himself and Jock Stein (however much mutual affection and admiration was expressed in public) and one must never under-estimate the problems in Glasgow of a boy from a Rangers background playing for and being such a star for Celtic.

A fight was picked about a tour of Australia, Kenny did not go, and when the team came back from a successful trip, Liverpool, who had just lost Kevin Keegan to Germany, saw Dalglish as the replacement.

The transfer was completed with devastating suddenness, Celtic’s season collapsed before it began, Stein began to show all the signs of a man suffering from depression – and his mood was mirrored in us all.

The incredulous Rangers won a treble, and Celtic’s resist- ance was feeble. The truth of this transfer had yet to be told – but no-one will do so. Most of the participants are now dead, except Kenny himself. Why, Kenny, why?

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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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