Celtic Underground No273 - Forthright Fallon's Explosive Chat
This week St Anthony is joined by John Fallon and his guest doesn't miss and hit the wall when discussing all things Celtic! This is a must listen - and apologies, we ran out of bleeps! Fallon signed for Celtic from junior football team Fauldhouse United in 1959 to understudy for Frank Haffey and made his debut that same year against Clyde. He replaced Haffey as first choice goalkeeper in 1963...
1hr 7m Mar 01, 2016
1hr 7m
Celtic Underground No273 - Forthright Fallon's Explosive Chat
This week St Anthony is joined by John Fallon and his guest doesn't miss and hit the wall when discussing all things Celtic! This is a must listen - and apologies, we ran out of bleeps! Fallon signed for Celtic from junior football team Fauldhouse United in 1959 to understudy for Frank Haffey and made his debut that same year against Clyde. He replaced Haffey as first choice goalkeeper in 1963...
1hr 7m Feb 29, 2016
1hr 7m
Celtic Underground No272 - Post Cup Final Barney
This week St Anthony and Harry have a bit of a ding dong following the Hampden defeat at the hands of Ross County. The boys discuss numbers and positions and all that rubbish to debate the rights, wrongs and whatevers. I'm not sure a any agreement is reached. Following a discussion of the past the bhoys discuss the present of the last day of the January transfer window. Finally the bhoys move...
1hr 18m Feb 01, 2016
1hr 18m
Celtic Underground N272 - Post Cup Final Barney
This week St Anthony and Harry have a bit of a ding dong following the Hampden defeat at the hands of Ross County. The boys discuss numbers and positions and all that rubbish to debate the rights, wrongs and whatevers. I'm not sure a any agreement is reached. Following a discussion of the past the bhoys discuss the present of the last day of the January transfer window. Finally the bhoys move...
1hr 18m Feb 01, 2016
1hr 18m
Celtic Underground No271 - Let's Be Frank
This week St Anthony is joined by a Celtic star whom Saint would put into a list of potential all time great Celtic strikers - Mr Frank McGarvey. Most will know that Frank began his career very succesfully at St Mirren before, in May 1979, McGarvey signed for Liverpool for £270,000. However, his tenure with the club lasted only 10 months. Unable to breakthrough into the first team, McGarvey so...
1hr 20m Jan 21, 2016
1hr 20m
Celtic Underground No271 - Let's Be Frank
This week St Anthony is joined by a Celtic star whom Saint would put into a list of potential all time great Celtic strikers - Mr Frank McGarvey. Most will know that Frank began his career very succesfully at St Mirren before, in May 1979, McGarvey signed for Liverpool for £270,000. However, his tenure with the club lasted only 10 months. Unable to breakthrough into the first team, McGarvey so...
1hr 20m Jan 21, 2016
1hr 20m
Celtic Underground No270 - Flares & Striking Pairs
This week Harry catches up with St Anthony to discuss the events of the past few weeks. There has been little football since the pre-Christmas podcast but the guys manage to stretch out the discussion on the Stranraer and Partick Thistle games to such an extent that you'd think they were exciting matches. The chat about Stranraer however leads to a discussion on flares (pyro not trousers). Fin...
1hr 27m Jan 14, 2016
1hr 27m
Celtic Underground No270 - Flares & Striking Pairs
This week Harry catches up with St Anthony to discuss the events of the past few weeks.  There has been little football since the pre-Christmas podcast but the guys manage to stretch out the discussion on the Stranraer and Partick Thistle games to such an extent that you'd think they were exciting matches. The chat about Stranraer however leads to a discussion on flares (pyro not trousers). ...
1hr 27m Jan 14, 2016
1hr 27m
Celtic Underground No269 - Ronnie Deila: Stick or Twist?
This week Harry and St Anthony join up on a podcast to discuss the burning question - Ronnie Deila: Stick or Twist. Harry starts by comparing the league position with this time last year. Celtic are 3 points and 11 goals scored better off than after 18 points last year - surely sign of progress, but the bhoys go on and outline their concerns. After a few heated debating points along the way th...
1hr 21m Dec 22, 2015
1hr 21m
Celtic Underground No269 - Ronnie Deila: Stick or Twist?
This week Harry and St Anthony join up on a podcast to discuss the burning question - Ronnie Deila: Stick or Twist. Harry starts by comparing the league position with this time last year. Celtic are 3 points and 11 goals scored better off than after 18 points last year - surely sign of progress, but the bhoys go on and outline their concerns. After a few heated debating points along the way th...
1hr 21m Dec 22, 2015
1hr 21m
Celtic Underground 268 - And McGinlay Scores
This week St Anthony is joined by Pat McGinley. Pat grew up in Partick, Glasgow and was an outstanding schoolboy player captaining St Peter's Boys School in Partick and playing for St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill and Bearsden Boys Club. Though many Scottish clubs were watching his star performances as a schoolboy centre forward, he began his career as an apprentice with English club B...
30m Dec 11, 2015
30m
Celtic Underground No268 - And McGinlay Scores!
This week St Anthony is joined by Pat McGinlay. Pat grew up in Partick, Glasgow and was an outstanding schoolboy player captaining St Peter's Boys School in Partick and playing for St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill and Bearsden Boys Club. Though many Scottish clubs were watching his star performances as a schoolboy centre forward, he began his career as an apprentice with English club B...
30m Dec 09, 2015
30m
Celtic Underground 267(b) - Celtic History Night (Part 2)
This week we have the second part of the aduio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast;Paul Dykes - The Quality Street GangStephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron ManStephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is thesecond part of audi...
1hr 1m Dec 01, 2015
1hr 1m
Celtic Underground 267(b) - Celtic History Night
This week we have the second part of the aduio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast; Paul Dykes - The Quality Street Gang Stephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron Man Stephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is thesecond part of a...
1hr 1m Dec 01, 2015
1hr 1m
Celtic Underground No267(a) - Celtic History Night
This week we have some audio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast;Paul Dykes - The Quality Street GangStephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron ManStephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is the first part of audio from the evening...
1hr 3m Nov 28, 2015
1hr 3m
Celtic Underground No267(a) - History Night
This week we have some audio from the Celtic History night which took place in the Admiral Bar on Thursday 19th November. Hosted by Paul Cuddihy the evening was a chance for Celtic chat with authors who have all apeared on this podcast; Paul Dykes - The Quality Street Gang Stephen Sullivan - Celtic's Iron Man Stephen Murray - Ten Men Won The League This is the first part of audio from the even...
1hr 3m Nov 27, 2015
1hr 3m
Celtic Underground No266- Pat Stanton: Proud To Wear The Green
This week St Anthony is joined by a legend of Scottish Football, Pat Stanton. In these modern times of high wages, as we have seen, players like Pat would never have stayed at Hibs for so long but...well he goes into all of that on the podcast. Stanton is the great-great nephew of Michael Whelahan, one of the founders of Hibernian FC and its first captain.[3] He signed for the club in 1963 and...
57m Nov 17, 2015
57m
Celtic Underground No266 - Pat Stanton: Proud To Wear The Green
This week St Anthony is joined by a legend of Scottish Football, Pat Stanton. In these modern times of high wages, as we have seen, players like Pat would never have stayed at Hibs for so long but...well he goes into all of that on the podcast. Stanton is the great-great nephew of Michael Whelahan, one of the founders of Hibernian FC and its first captain.[3] He signed for the club in 1963 and...
57m Nov 17, 2015
57m
Celtic Underground No265 - "17 Years of Organised Cheating"
This week the Celtic Underground team discuss cheating - wholescale, industrial cheating with the clear intent to defraud Scottish football, masterminded by a man hailed as business hero, but who was nothing of the sort. Knighted for services to business David Murray stacked up debts of £1bn with a £20m shortfall in his group's pension fund. And when this guy could no longer use his friends and...
1hr 30m Nov 12, 2015
1hr 30m
Celtic Underground No265 - "17 Years of Organised Cheating"
This week the Celtic Underground team discuss cheating - wholescale, industrial cheating with the clear intent to defraud Scottish football, masterminded by a man hailed as business hero, but who was nothing of the sort. Knighted for services to business David Murray stacked up debts of £1bn with a £20m shortfall in his group's pension fund. And when this guy could no longer use his friends and...
1hr 53m Nov 12, 2015
1hr 53m
Celtic Underground No264 - Brendan Sweeney: All Things Celtic
This week St Anthony is joined by a man who does not look to court the limelight yet has been an essential part of the Celtic fan story for over 20 years - Mr Brendan Sweeney. Many will have known of Brendan since his time at Celts For Change when he was a key member of the group which helped galvanise the fans into a movement which led to the transformation of our club. More recently Brendan h...
51m Nov 10, 2015
51m
Celtic Underground No264 - Brendan Sweeney: All Things Celtic
This week St Anthony is joined by a man who does not look to court the limelight yet has been an essential part of the Celtic fan story for over 20 years - Mr Brendan Sweeney. Many will have known of Brendan since his time at Celts For Change when he was a key member of the group which helped galvanise the fans into a movement which led to the transformation of our club. More recently Brendan h...
51m Nov 08, 2015
51m
Celtic Underground No263 - Tony Hamilton on Football For Good
This week Harry meets up with Tony Hamilton (CEO) to discuss the fantastic work of the Celtic FC Foundation. Tony and Harry firt spoke about the work of the Foundation 2 years ago on the podcast and so Harry thought it was about time to catch up and get insight into the work being done by the foundation and specifically the forthcoming Christmas appeal. To learn more about the work of the Fou...
38m Nov 03, 2015
38m
Celtic Underground No263 - Tony Hamilton on Football For Good
This week Harry meets up with Tony Hamilton (CEO) to discuss the fantastic work of the Celtic FC Foundation. Tony and Harry firt spoke about the work of the Foundation 2 years ago on the podcast and so Harry thought it was about time to catch up and get insight into the work being done by the foundation and specifically the forthcoming Christmas appeal. To learn more about the work of the Fou...
38m Nov 03, 2015
38m
Celtic Underground No262 - Gerry McCulloch: Cammy Fraser, What Do You Think About That?
This week St Anthony brings us another guest from the world of the Scottish Mainstream Media - Mr Gerry McCulloch. Viewers of STV and listeners to Clyde will be familiar with young Gerry as the the fresh voiced host of the long running radio football phone-in and occasional face of football on STV. Before Saint discusses all things football and media with Gerry we get a chance to wish Willie ...
55m Oct 24, 2015
55m
Celtic Underground No262 - Gerry McCulloch: Cammy Fraser, What Do You Think About That?
This week St Anthony brings us another guest from the world of the Scottish Mainstream Media - Mr Gerry McCulloch. Viewers of STV and listeners to Clyde will be familiar with young Gerry as the the fresh voiced host of the long running radio football phone-in and occassional face of football on STV. Before Saint discusses all things football and media with Gerry we get a chance to wish Willie...
55m Oct 24, 2015
55m
Celtic Underground 261 - My Celtic Life: Packie Bonner
This week Harry is joined by Celtic Legend Packie Bonner. Packie has a book coming out called The Last Line and Harry discusses is "lucky" career and the influences on him which led to making nearly 500 appearnaces for Celtic in 20 years. He was Jock Stein's last signing for the club when he left his native Donegal for the city of Glasgow in 1978, where Packie evolved from being a shy, homesi...
57m Oct 02, 2015
57m
Celtic Underground 261 - My Celtic Life: Packie Bonner
This week Harry is joined by Celtic Legend Packie Bonner. Packie has a book coming out called The Last Line and Harry discusses is "lucky" career and the influences on him which led to making nearly 500 appearnaces for Celtic in 20 years. He was Jock Stein's last signing for the club when he left his native Donegal for the city of Glasgow in 1978, where Packie evolved from being a shy, homesi...
57m Oct 02, 2015
57m
Celtic Underground No260 - They Cheated To Stay Alive - Res 12 Update
The Old Rangers cheated and then went bust. We all know this, but what the press have not gone into are the final desperate attempts made by that old club to stave off liquidation and use all means, fair or foul, to cobble together enough cash to trade through the season. When they ran out of tax avoidance and evasion schemes, they simply gambled everything on achieving Champions League footbal...
1hr 9m Sep 23, 2015
1hr 9m
Celtic Underground No.260 - They Cheated to Stay Alive; A Res 12 Update
The Old Rangers cheated and then went bust. We all know this, but what the press have not gone into are the final desperate attempts made by that old club to stave off liquidation and use all means, fair or foul, to cobble together enough cash to trade through the season. When they ran out of tax avoidance and evasion schemes, they simply gambled everything on achieving Champions League footbal...
1hr 9m Sep 22, 2015
1hr 9m
Celtic Underground No259 - Archie MacPherson
Last week we had Derek Rae on the podcast. We talked about his technique, love for the game and influences. His start had been via David Francey but there was one man who is perhaps, the most important sports broadcaster in Scottish sport history. I am of course talking about the legendary Archie MacPherson. Those of us of a certain age grew up with the luxury of football highlights of games b...
1hr 8m Sep 02, 2015
1hr 8m
Celtic Underground No259 - Archie MacPherson
Last week we had Derek Rae on the podcast.  We talked about his technique, love for the game and influences.  His start had been via David Francy but there was one man who is perhaps, the most important sports broadcaster in Scottish sport history.  I am of course talking about the legendary Archie MacPherson. Those of us of a certain age grew up with the luxury of football highlights of gam...
1hr 8m Sep 02, 2015
1hr 8m
Celtic Underground No258 - Cool, Calm, Considered
After the loss to Malmo in midweek, everything online with Celtic got a bit hectic and frenzied with lots of gnashing of teeth and searching for a villain to pin the blame onto. With such a critical online atmosphere Harry decided that a more calming and measured perspective was required and therefore asked Hullbhoy, with his calming Hull tones to provide his overview. The bhoys started by dis...
58m Aug 29, 2015
58m
Celtic Underground No258 - Cool, Calm, Considered
After the loss to Malmo in midweek, everything online with Celtic got a bit hectic and frenzied with lots of gnashing of teeth and searching for a villain to pin the blame onto. With such a critical online atmosphere Harry decided that a more calming and measured perspective was required and therefore asked Hullbhoy, with his calming Hull tones to provide his overview.  The bhoys started by ...
58m Aug 28, 2015
58m
Celtic Underground 257: A Life in Commentary - Derek Rae
This week Harry is joined by leading sports commentator Mr Derek Rae. This was recorded the morning after the night before and the first topic of conversation is the Malmo game, but the chat soon moves on to wider topics covering Derek's varied (by location) broadcast career. Derek started broadcasting for hospital radio at just 15 and as he goes onto explain, got a lucky break at 19 which res...
1hr 10m Aug 20, 2015
1hr 10m
Celtic Underground 257: A Life in Commentary - Derek Rae
This week Harry is joined by leading sports commentator Mr Derek Rae.  This was recorded the morning after the night before and the first topic of conversation is the Malmo game, but the chat soon moves on to wider topics covering Derek's varied (by location) broadcast career. Derek started broadcasting for hospital radio at just 15 and as he goes onto explain, got a lucky break at 19 which ...
1hr 10m Aug 20, 2015
1hr 10m
Celtic Underground 256: Their Children Will Be Celtic Players
Scott Allen – Welcome to Celtic! Celtic have signed another Scottish talent and in the process managed to get three of their targets into one. Scott started his career at Dundee Utd – TickScott has been signed from Hibs – TickRangers fans were singing his name as they thought THEY were signing him – Tick and Ha ha ha ha haWith Celtic playing in Europe (West Asia Region) this past week Harry t...
51m Aug 15, 2015
51m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No256 - Their Children Will Be Celtic Players
Scott Allen - Welcome to Celtic! Celtic have signed another Scottish talent and in the process managed to get three of their targets into one. Scott started his career at Dundee Utd - Tick Scott has been signed from Hibs - Tick Rangers fans were singing his name as they thought THEY were signing him - Tick and Ha ha ha ha ha With Celtic playing in Europe (West Asia Region) this past week H...
51m Aug 14, 2015
51m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No255 - My Celtic Life: Joe Craig
This week, fresh from getting 1 step closer to the Champions League we have St Anthony in conversation with another former Celtic hero - Joe Craig. Craig, a striker, joined Partick Thistle in 1972 from Sauchie Juniors. After an impressive start, scoring seven goals in his first twenty games, he helped the club to the First Division title in season 1975-76. Joe signed for Celtic in September 19...
1hr 22m Aug 06, 2015
1hr 22m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No255 - My Celtic Life: Joe Craig
This week, fresh from getting 1 step closer to the Champions League we have St Anthony in conversation with another former Celtic hero - Joe Craig. Craig, a striker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striker_(association_football)) , joined Partick Thistle in 1972 from Sauchie Juniors. After an impressive start, scoring seven goals in his first twenty games, he helped the club to the First Divis...
1hr 22m Aug 05, 2015
1hr 22m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No254 - The CU Top Ten Season 2014/15
The domestic season starts on Saturday so there is one VERY important job to be undertaken before this begins and that is the unveiling of the Celtic Underground Committee's choice of top ten players for Celtic in Season 2014/15. Starting with a new manager with new systems and new ideas on players it was a challenging time for our election committee with few players feature as first team stan...
1hr 29m Jul 30, 2015
1hr 29m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No254- The CU Top Ten Season 2014/15
The domestic season starts on Saturday so there is one VERY important job to be undertaken before this begins and that is the unveiling of the Celtic Underground Committee's choice of top ten players for Celtic in Season 2014/15. Starting with a new manager with new systems and new ideas on players it was a challenging time for our election committee with few players feature as first team st...
1hr 29m Jul 30, 2015
1hr 29m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No253 - My Celtic Life: Billy Stark
As we approach the start of a new season, St Anthony has a guest who reminds us that sometimes just one or two signings can be the difference for a team - Mr Billy Stark. Billy was your typical "good honest pro" in the Scottish game so hardly had the fans flocking to the front door when he signed for the hoops yet for many he became one of THE reasons Celtic won the double in our Centenary Sea...
1hr 13m Jul 25, 2015
1hr 13m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No253 - My Celtic Life: Billy Stark
As we approach the start of a new season, St Anthony has a guest who reminds us that sometimes just one or two signings can be the difference for a team - Mr Billy Stark. Billy was your typical "good honest pro" in the Scottish game so hardly had the fans flocking to the front door when he signed for the hoops yet for many he became one of THE reasons Celtic won the double in our Centenary S...
1hr 13m Jul 24, 2015
1hr 13m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.252 - A Benevolent Dictatorship With STV Grant
Just in time for the schools breaking up, the world's longest running football fans podcast brings you another feast of football chat to get you through the dearth of quality chat in a tournamentless summer (yes I know there's the women's thing but that doesn't count). This week Harry is joined by Grant Russell of STV, known to those on twitter as @STV Grant. The boys discuss Grant credentials...
1hr 30m Jun 27, 2015
1hr 30m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.252 - A Benevolent Dictatorship With STV Grant
Just in time for the schools breaking up, the world's longest running football fans podcast brings you another feast of football chat to get you through the dearth of quality chat in a tournamentless summer (yes I know there's the women's thing but that doesn't count). This week Harry is joined by Grant Russell of STV, known to those on twitter as @STV Grant.  The boys discuss Grant  credent...
1hr 48m Jun 26, 2015
1hr 48m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No251 - Graham Spiers, Rocket Man
You may be all just about to embark on your summer holidays with the prevailing sports of golf, cricket and tennis on the tv but football never goes away and neither does the world's longest running fan podcast! The last Scotland game was just a week ago but the Celtic players are back in training, the fixtures are out and the Champions League draw has been made so we know you want some footba...
1hr 23m Jun 23, 2015
1hr 23m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No251 - Graham Spiers, Rocket Man
You may be all just about to embark on your summer holidays with the prevailing sports of golf, cricket and tennis on the tv but football never goes away and neither does the worlds' longest running fan podcast! The last Scotland game was just a week ago but the Celtic players are back in training, the fixtures are out and the Champions League draw has been made so we know you want some foot...
1hr 23m Jun 22, 2015
1hr 23m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No250 - A 5 Star Season Review
It's milestone in more ways than one.  We have now reached the end of the first season of the Ronny Deila era and it's also the end of the first 250 podcasts from Celtic Underground.  Eddie may be still living in a cave but we still have enough regulars from the podcast to have a multi-cast review of Ronny's first term. Hullbhoy & Lachie passed on their apologies but we Harry was still joine...
1hr 32m Jun 04, 2015
1hr 32m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No249 - Steven Purcell on Celtic, Faith and Politics
Glasgow and Scotland over these past 12 months. Steven got into politics during the turbulent times of the 1980's and became a Glasgow City councillor at 22 and leader of the City just 10 years later at 32. Close to Donald Dewar, steven was tipped to become the leader of Labour in Scotland before his high profile resignation and departure from public life. Before leaving the City council, Steve...
1hr 30m May 29, 2015
1hr 30m