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
The Celtic Underground Podcast No249 - Steven Purcell Talks Celtic, Labour & Nicola
Steven Purcell has is a Celtic fan with a unique insight into the dramtic events in 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 prof...
1hr 38m May 28, 2015
1hr 38m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No248(b) - The Cull
Following the jolly discussions of the Aberdeen game and the remaining fixtures this term, guest Mark Cameron shows his ruthless side by discussing the big changes he envisages for the first team squad. Some of his proposals are enforced with expected sales, whilst others are end of contract or fringe players whose disappearance tomorrow wouldn't be noticed. See if you agree with @leftybhoy on...
49m May 19, 2015
49m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No248 (b) - The Cull
Following the jolly discussions of the Aberdeen game and the remaining fixtures this term, guest Mark Cameron shows his ruthless side by discussing the big changes he envisages for the first team squad.  Some of his proposals are enforced with expected sales, whilst others are end of contract or fringe players whose disappearance tomorrow wouldn't be noticed. See if you agree with @leftybhoy...
49m May 17, 2015
49m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No 248 (a) - Return of The Masters
This week Celtic Globetrotter Mark Cameron drops in for a chat with Harry. Their wide ranging discussion covers the joy of being champions at Pittodrie, how the manager will deal with the squad for the last two games and what the squad may or may not be after the (brief) summer break. It's such a long and wide ranging chat that Harry has decided to split the podcasts up into two bite sized chu...
39m May 15, 2015
39m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.248a - Return of The Masters
This week Celtic Globetrotter Mark Cameron drops in for a chat with Harry.  Their wide ranging discussion covers the joy of being champions at Pittodrie, how the manager will deal with the squad for the last two games and what the squad may or may not be after the (brief) summer break. It's such a long and wide ranging chat that Harry has decided to split the podcasts up into two bite sized ...
39m May 15, 2015
39m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No 247(b) - My Celtic Life: Andy Ritchie
Last week we uploaded part I of the conversation between St Anthony and Andy Ritchie.  Since that upload, both sides with whom Andy is synonymous (Celtic & Morton) have secured their respective league titles...magic! If you've not listened to 247(a) it's available from all the usual places.  If you have then please enjoy the 2nd part... This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss thi...
51m May 02, 2015
51m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No247(a) - My Celtic Life: Andy Ritchie
I pondered for a little while as to whether to call this a My Celtic Life podcast after all, Andy is a Morton Legend and only played a handful of games for the hoops but for those of us of a certain age you cannot think of players like Andy or ChiCk Charnley and not think of the hoops they could have been. Andy had talent but he was also more in the Griffiths Tunnock Teacake world of fitness t...
54m Apr 30, 2015
54m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No247a - My Celtic Life: Andy Ritchie
I pondered for a little while as to whether to call this a My Celtic Life podcast after all, Andy is a Morton Legend and only played a handful of games for the hoops but for those of us of a certain age you cannot think of players like Andy or Chcik Charnley and not think of the hoops they could have been. Andy had talent but he was also more in the Griffiths Tunnock Teacake world of fitness...
54m Apr 29, 2015
54m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No246 - Unsighted? It's Like A Ray Charles Convention
This week Harry has just about calmed down enough to do a podcast dissecting the ICT fall-out. With more unsighted people in Scottish football than you'd find at a Ray Charles convention, Harry hops on Skype and chats with a man 8,000 miles away in Argentina - even he saw it - HANDBALL. The guys naturally discuss what happened and Harry TRIES to come up with a valid defence for 5 unsighted off...
1hr 22m Apr 22, 2015
1hr 22m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No246 - Unsighted? It's Like A Ray Charles Convention
This week Harry has just about calmed down enough to do a podcast dissecting the ICT fall-out.  With more unsighted people in Scottish football than you'd find at a Ray Charles convention, Harry hops on Skype and chats with a man 8,000 miles away in Argentina - even he saw it - HANDBALL. The guys naturally discuss what happened and Harry TRIES to come up with a valid defence for 5 unsighted ...
1hr 22m Apr 22, 2015
1hr 22m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No245 - Lush Green Limericks with Tom English
This week Harry is joined by a man familiar with listeners to BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound and formerly readers of the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday - Mr Tom English.  Tom is a Limerick man and was a Limerick Utd and Liverpool fan growing up who pretty much stumbled across Scottish football when posted here in by the Sunday Times in the early 1990's. Over the course of a rambling hour and...
1hr 37m Apr 17, 2015
1hr 37m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.244 - Robert Grieve
A REAL St Mirren fan in the media - yes apparently there IS one and St Anthony has found him! This week St Anthony is joined by The Scottish Sun's Chief Football Writer Mr Robert Grieve to talk football AND Saint provides the bombshell right at the start that Robert IS actually a ST Mirren fan - yes a real live one - although a thought did occur that maybe that's why St Mirren's average attend...
56m Apr 12, 2015
56m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.244 - Robert Grieve
A REAL St Mirren fan in the media - yes apparently there IS one and St Anthony has found him! This week St Anthony is joined by The Scottish Sun's Chief Football Writer Mr Robert Grieve to talk football AND Saint provides the bombshell right at the start that Robert IS actually a ST Mirren fan - yes a real live one - although a thought did occur that maybe that's why St Mirren's average attend...
56m Apr 12, 2015
56m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No243 - A Glib & Shameless Celtic Podcast
The hiatus of international football is over and so it's time to talk Celtic. Lachie Mor joins Harry to discuss the shooty-in exercise of the final Dundee Utd game and the squad in general. In addition to discovering that Lachie's best 11 contains a minumum of 12 players, the pair discuss the forthcoming triple and summer squad changes including Liam Henderson's loan move to Norway. There is a ...
54m Apr 02, 2015
54m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No243 - A Glib & Shameless Celtic Podcast
The hiatus of international football is over and so it's time to talk Celtic.  Lachie Mor joins Harry to discuss the shooty-in exercise of the final Dundee Utd game and the squad in general.  In addition to discovering that Lachie's best 11 contains a minumum of 12 players, the pair discuss the forthcoming triple and summer squad changes including Liam Henderson's loan move to Norway.  There is...
54m Apr 02, 2015
54m
Celtic Underground Podcast No242 - My Celtic Life: Charlie Gallagher
With it being an international week our listeners will be thirsty for Celtic content and this week St Anthony returns with another My Celtic Life. This week Saint is joined by Charlie Gallagher. Charlie is one of those Celts who's career spanned a dramatic chnage in the club. Starting in the dark pre-Stein days he was fortunate enough to play alongside his hero, the late great Willie Fernie an...
1hr 13m Mar 28, 2015
1hr 13m
Celtic Underground Podcast No242 - My Celtic Life: Charlie Gallagher
With it being an international week our listeners will be thirsty for Celtic content and this week St Anthony returns with another My Celtic Life.  This week Saint is joined by Charlie Gallagher. Charlie is one of those Celts who's career spanned a dramatic chnage in the club.  Starting in the dark pre-Stein days he was fortunate enough to play alongside his hero, the late great Willie Ferni...
1hr 13m Mar 28, 2015
1hr 13m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No241 - Bringing Sexy Back
Why would anyone not be excited about going to watch Celtic at the moment? Bombing on full backs, pace speed, ability - even centre halves scoring goals by playing a 1-2 in the opposition 6 yard box. To quote Chris Tarrant on TISWAS - This Is What They Want! Yes, this is sexy football. Ronny Deila is bringing sexy back to Celtic Park! This week Mark Cameron joins Harry to discuss attacking foo...
1hr 14m Mar 20, 2015
1hr 14m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.241 - Bringing Sexy Back
Why would anyone not be excited about going to watch Celtic at the moment?  Bombing on full backs, pace speed, ability - even centre halves scoring goals by playing a 1-2 in the opposition 6 yard box.  To quote Chris Tarrant on TISWAS - This Is What They Want!  Yes, this is sexy football.  Ronny Deila is bringing sexy back to Celtic Park! This week Mark Cameron joins Harry to discuss attacki...
1hr 14m Mar 20, 2015
1hr 14m
The Celtic Underground Podcast #240 - Love Is In The AIr With Jim Spence
Jim Spence in conversation with St Anthony Since the speculate to accumulate concept came crashing down in Scottish football, few journalists have provided a fairer and more bullish assement and commentary on our game than Jim Spence. With 3 Dundee Utd games coming up St aNthony has dusted down his mic once again to meet up with Jim Spence and have a good football natter with a proper football...
1hr 30m Mar 08, 2015
1hr 30m
The Celtic Underground Podcast #239 - Tierney on Connery, Butler, Bradley and Celtic
This week St Anthony is joined by author of The First Game With My Father, Michael Tierney. They discuss all things Celtic including Sean Connery, Gerard Butler, Ben Bradley et al. Also the Celtic FC Foundation have just a few team places left for their first golf day which is taking place on World Autism Day - 2nd April, at Renfrew Golf Club. CELTIC FC FOUNDATION GOLF DAY TO TAKE PLACE ON WO...
1hr 30m Mar 08, 2015
1hr 30m
The Celtic Underground Podcast #238 - Graves, Foundation and a Lynching
After Harry updates on the Celtic Graves Event of Saturday 28th Feb in Kilsyth and the forthcoming CFC Foundation events we have the meet of the podcast with St Anthony. St Anthony meets up with Andy Lynch. In February 1973, Jock Stein paid £30,000 to sign Lynch for Celtic and, although Lynch was initially a winger, Stein successfully converted him into a left back. While with Celtic he won th...
1hr 26m Mar 08, 2015
1hr 26m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.240 - Love Is In The AIr With Jim Spence
Jim Spence in conversation with St Anthony Since the speculate to accumulate concept came crashing down in Scottish football, few journalists have provided a fairer and more bullish assement and commentary on our game than Jim Spence.  With 3 Dundee Utd games coming up St aNthony has dusted down his mic once again to meet up with Jim Spence and have a good football natter with a proper footbal...
1hr 31m Mar 08, 2015
1hr 31m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No239 - Tierney on Connery, Butler, Bradley and Celtic
This week St Anthony is joined by author of The First Game With My Father, Michael Tierney.  They discuss all things Celtic including Sean Connery, Gerard Butler, Ben Bradley et al. Also the Celtic FC Foundation have just a few team places left for their first golf day which is taking place on World Autism Day - 2nd April, at Renfrew Golf Club. CELTIC FC FOUNDATION GOLF DAY TO TAKE PLACE ON W...
1hr 39m Mar 04, 2015
1hr 39m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.238 - Graves, Foundation and a Lynching
After Harry updates on the Celtic Graves Event of Saturday 28th Feb in Kilsyth and the forthcoming CFC Foundation events we have the meet of the podcast with St Anthony. St Anthony meets up with Andy Lynch.  In February 1973, Jock Stein paid £30,000 to sign Lynch for Celtic and, although Lynch was initially a winger, Stein successfully converted him into a left back. While with Celtic he won t...
1hr 26m Feb 27, 2015
1hr 26m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.237 - Incredible. A Joy!
This week Harry gets in from the Internazionale game at Celtic Park and has almost lost his voice.  There is just enough left to have a skype chat with our man in Argentina Mr Mak Cooper. The two discuss the wonderful game at Celtic Park and conclude that this is wondeful but the best is yet to come.  Mark also provides an insight into what Celtic COULD be doing to get young South American t...
1hr 9m Feb 20, 2015
1hr 9m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.236 - Inter Milan Edition
This week st Anthony is joined by famous Celtic author and historian Pat Woods. With the forthcoming tie with Inter Milan memories are bviously transported back to European joys and tears of the past, of ost note the 1967 Final and then there was the heartache of the 1972 European Cup Semi Final and the boys discuss these past times at length. Also this past week I was fortunate enough to...
1hr 16m Feb 17, 2015
1hr 16m
The Celtic Underground Podcast - Almost As Good As Celtic
This week former host of Celtic TV Ally Beg and author of Begg To Differ joins Harry to discuss Scottish Football.  As Ally is a Dons fan & former Celtic TV man they discuss the two cup semi finals and also discuss the Dons in the league - can they hold onto 2nd with the challenge from ICT? They discuss teh dreadful Hampden pitch, the Scottish transfer market and touch on the Inter Milan game....
55m Feb 13, 2015
55m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No234 - Michael Kelly
I decided to keep the title to this weeks podcast brief because mention the name Michael Kelly to many Celtcs and just stand back.  A man who certainly generates comment, his Celtic heritage goes back to the forming of the club.  The Kelly family and Celtic and the Kelly family and Glasgow are pretty interwined. A man credited with halting the terminal decline of a once great City with the G...
1hr 4m Feb 05, 2015
1hr 4m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No233 - League Cup Semi Preview
Celtic have a league cup semi final coming up over the weekend and we have brought Hullbhoy in from out of cold storage to give us his insight. First up Hullbhoy and Harry discuss the performance of the team under Ronny and the changes and development of the playing style witnessed.  The boys then go on to discuss wider issues in Scottish football like how crap our refs are before finally lo...
1hr 14m Jan 30, 2015
1hr 14m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.232 - Still Playing For Celtic
This week St Anthony is back at the reigns for a chat with a man with 6 decades plus of Celtic and Scottish football memories.  Journalist and editor of the fabulous Playing for Celtic series of books.  One indicator of the difference in player/journalist relationship in past times - Rodger was Jim Baxter's best man. Remember St Anthony can be found on twitter - @Stephen62572390 ...
1hr 12m Jan 18, 2015
1hr 12m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No231 - Expect Deila to Succeed? This Norwegian Would
Did you have a good New Year?  As they say may your best of 2014 be the worst of 2015. Following on from Ally Begg on podcast No230, once again Harry brings a new voice to the CU Podcast in the Norwegian based in Glasgow, Christian Wulff or, @aHellofaBeating as many followers on twitter will know him. Christian's interest in Scottish football began when his father established the Norwegia...
1hr 2m Jan 07, 2015
1hr 2m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.230 - Begg to Differ
This week Harry has a long range podcast with a guest who's packed more into the last 25 years than many would pack into 2 lifetimes - former ... well former many things including; Wannabe footballer, Model, Boy Band Star, Host of MUTV, Celtic TV, Setanta Sports, Sky Sports, ESPN and currently beIN Sport based in Doha, Qatar. A fascinating guest, Ally's ability to bounceback from adversity ...
1hr 19m Dec 30, 2014
1hr 19m
The Celtic Podcast No.229 - Goal Scoring, Inter Playing, Sevco Bewildering Christmas Special
Lachie Mor is back in the house and Harry & Lachie discuss the ghost of Celtic Past, Present & Future and conclude that it's always good to support the hoops. The bhoys discuss the recent performances where a total of 20 goals could have been scored against Motherwell & St Mirren (but weren't). At almost the halfway stage in the season Harry tries to get Lachie's best Celtic 11 for this c...
1hr 6m Dec 18, 2014
1hr 6m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No228 - Ten Men Won The League
1978-79 was a season like no other, marking the end of an era and transition to a different world in more ways than one.  Jock Stein had managed Celtic for the final time and his European Cup winning captain was to take over the reigns.  The Rangers team which had been succesful in the post 9 in a row years were ageing and two clubs from the North East were starting to show how they would come ...
55m Dec 06, 2014
55m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.227 - Patience is a Virtue
The podcast this week sees St Anthony join Harry Brady to discuss the patience of fans past and presence. The bhoys start off by discussing a very exciting new book - St Anthony's review of the remarkable 1978/79 season which culminated in the game which has entered the folklore of the Celtic support, the famous 4-2 game when 10 men won the league.  From this the bhoys find a way to weave the p...
1hr 8m Oct 28, 2014
1hr 8m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.226 - Deila Downs Detractors?
The old sage of Celtic Underground returns.  With the feast or famine nature of modern football fans, couple with the desire of the Scottish media to pounce on any negitivity at Celtic, the changes at Celtic have resulted in pressure on Ronny Deila.  Lachie Mor and Harry Brady therefore decide to look beyond the easy "it's no working" comments that abound to see if there are indications that it...
1hr 3m Oct 23, 2014
1hr 3m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.225 - Far From The Madding Crowd
Lachie Mor is back.  Whilst his convalescing continues Lachie finds time to discuss Celtic with Harry Brady with a more considered approach.  The pair discuss the fortunes of the team to date, the challenges of changing the culture of the club and how the internet provides an outlet for the less tolerant fans. In view of Peter Lawwells comments following the clubs exit from Champions league ...
58m Sep 04, 2014
58m
The Celtic Underground Podcast No.224 - Searching For The Positives
This week Harry is joined by St Anthony to discuss the Maribor disaster analysing the many areas where things went wrong and looking for any positives which there may be to take from it - the guys don't think there were any. After discussing what wasn't good about the game, the guys also discuss their hopes that Ronnie will get things right, some fears he may not but mainly criticism of the bo...
1hr 14m Aug 29, 2014
1hr 14m