Monday starts a new week and a busy week for Celtic. Celtic fans will be travelling to Bologna midweek for Thursday nights game in the Europa League before returning for Sundays mouth watering clash with Hearts on Sunday at Tynecastle. Celtic fans don’t have the luxury of travelling for free like those on the Celtic board but they will be there to support the bhoys.

The conversation today among Celtic fans will be the lack of urgency by the silent Celtic board in the transfer market and their refusal to speak to Celtic fans on the future for OUR club. There does not seem to be a short term plan never mind a long term plan.

If we lose the league to Hearts or the rangers with £80 million in the bank it will be criminal and even the Celtic fans who still think that the Celtic board are doing a great job will have to question the direction they are taking the club and the wages they are pulling out of the club.

It was clear for all to see yesterday from Celtic’s performance in the Scottish Cup that the squad does not have the quality in reserve to compete in all competitions if they are called upon. Brendan Rodgers called for investment in better players and now Martin O’ Neill has echoed that. Surly they must listen to a Celtic Legend but maybe not!

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast

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Inside this issue we look back at 2025 and look ahead to 2026. The Celtic Board, The Celtic Fans Collective, Transfers, The Desmond’s and three Celtic managers are all topics covered by our team of writers as we enter uncertain times at OUR club.

Liam Scales features in this issue, he still has World Cup dreams while Celtic’s Scottish Internationals look forward to the tournament in the Summer. The state of play is not positive at Celtic. The Celtic board continue to stumble from week to week and as we go to print they still have not signed a decent striker in over 12 months.

Celtic fans from Ireland and beyond are getting shafted with fixtures changed to Sunday. Everyone knows that failure to qualify for the Champions League means Sunday fixtures after Europa Cup games but the Hearts game being changed to a Sunday for TV was another kick in the teeth for fans and more money down the drain on travel and hotels. We look at the fall out!

We also look back at how Celtic was in the dark days of the 1990’s but was the match day experience better on the terrace back then? One for the Celtic Da’s and Celtic Grand Da’s to answer. Away from home we cover the trip to Rotterdam for the Feyenoord game. A  bit of light in a dark season in Europe.

Spanish based Tim, Danny Reilly talks to us about is first, worst and best games following Celtic. Mick Hillman features in our Fan Focus and Frank Costello brings us up to date with following Celtic from his home in Galway.

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Martin O’Neill made plenty of changes to the starting 11 who beat Auchinleck Talbot for the Scottish Cup game at Rugby Park. He brought a number of fringe players in but still stuck with captain Callum McGregor to anchor the midfield.

Celtic were in control of the game for 90 minutes. Johnny Kenny finally found his shooting boots to open the scoring before second half substitute Tounekti scored a cracker to make it 2-0 on the night.

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The Scottish junior side had to play their home game at Rugby Park after the powers that be in the SFA made them move the game from their home ground. This led to some of their fans opting to watch the game in their club house.

Those running the club will be delighted with the cash windfall from drawing Celtic and the manager can be proud of his players who defended very well and left everything on Kilmarnock’s  plastic pitch.

Celtic will now face Dundee at Celtic Park in the next round of the Scottish Cup. Martin O’Neill will be happy with the win and the home draw in the next round hopefully those running Celtic can bring in the players he needs to strengthen the team.

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast 

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After the removal of Wilfried Nancy and Paul Tisdale and the reappointment of Martin O’Neill, interim Chair Brian Wilson asked supporters to unite and push the team through the second half of the season.

Despite the anger and calls for a boycott, we agreed unity was in Celtic’s best interests. We contacted Wilson to arrange a meeting, on the understanding that mediation would be needed to unite supporters.

That offer has been ignored. Instead, Wilson has used his time this week to attack the Scottish Government as tired and visionless in a national newspaper.

At the same time, Martin O’Neill has been left managing expectations while admitting there has been no proper planning for the January window. Once again, Celtic have been caught short and are desperately failing to recruit the players required for the title race. More than a year after selling our star striker, we still have not replaced him.

To use Brian Wilson’s language. the Celtic board is tired and visionless.

If Wilson wants unity, it requires action, accountability and reconciliation. Our manager must be supported in the transfer market, the Green Brigade must be brought back to the stadium to reinvigorate the matchday atmosphere, the fan media ban should be revoked and the interim Chair must be willing to engage with supporters to mend the disconnect that has grown this season. Only then will his calls for unity have any meaning.

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On Wednesday night Celtic collected 3 points away from home against Falkirk and kept a clean sheet in the process. Martin O’Neill will know that performances will have to improve on the road if we are to catch League leaders Hearts.

Kasper Schmeichel had been leaking goals in recent weeks and has come under pressure from some sections of the Celtic support. He had to be at his best to ensure that Celtic secured all three points.

The only goal of the game came from this season’s top goalscorer Benjamin Nygren.

O’Neill was happy with the win after the game when he spoke to the media. He knows Celtic did not play well and he knows that Celtic need to bring in players including a striker or two to bolster Celtic’s attacking options.

Frustration grows within the Celtic support on a daily basis with no new players coming. After the last two transfer windows confidence in those running the club is very low and expectations that they will back O’Neill are not high.

Rugby Park is our destination today for the away game with Auchinleck Talbot in the Scottish Cup. It should be a routine win for Celtic but we all know that giant killings do happen in the cup.

The game kicks off at 5:30pm and will be shown live on Premier Sports and streamed live on Celtic TV outside Ireland and the UK.

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast.