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Shutting up the snipers over the summer 2024 Celtic signings

by Editor March 19, 2025

Since the final whistle at Sunday’s Glasgow Derby there has been increasing criticism from some Celtic fans of the signings made in the summer of 2024.In tandem with that there has been a re-writing of the events of the previous summer when Brendan Rodgers was presented with the worst collection…

Brendan Rodgers, Chris Sutton, Stephen McGowan, Celtic

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Celtic in hiding from the elephant in the room

by Editor March 17, 2025

When a player is in the final year of his contract there is uncertainty, this will be magnified once this season ends and the clock ticks down on Rodgers’ three year Celtic contract.

Celtic, John Beaton, SFA, Crawford Allan, VAR, Steven McLean, Goldson, Crawford Allan, Ibrox

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Turning the tables on the Ibrox paranoia

by Editor March 12, 2025

One of the paranoid Ibrox facing social media accounts has highlighted the different standards of refereeing that Celtic are subjected to.The replies piled in on Blow The Whistle, a very professional looking Twitter account.It came just a few days after Willie Collum admitted that Alan Muir had no evidence to…

Celtic fans, Paddy Power, Joe Hart, Ballymena, Daily Record, Glasgow

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Daily Record tries to taunt Celtic with headlong dive into Ibrox fan media

by Editor March 6, 2025

The Daily Record is stepping up its race to merge with Ibrox fan media as they chase a digital audience to stay afloat.With print sales hovering at just over 40,000 a day the management at the Record has virtually given up on that market with the paper edition an afterthought…

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Jealous Tom English salutes outstanding Sportsound colleagues as they join the Ferguson Revolution at Ibrox

by Editor February 25, 2025

Billy Dodds, another respected Sportsound voice, is a part of the temporary regime too. Like McCann, he’s been outspoken on where Rangers have been going wrong under Clement. Of the four coaches, he has had the most success by far.

Brendan Rodgers, Steven McLean, Nicholson, Celtic, Muir

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Will Celtic give their fans a VAR answer or accept SFA silence?

by Editor February 24, 2025

Celtic fans paid £34 to watch Saturday’s match, behind the goal they celebrated Maeda’s equaliser, two minutes later the ‘goal’ was disallowed with only Alan Muir knowing the reason why.

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‘BBC need to be banned for good’ ‘disgrace of a journalist’ ‘absolute joke of a broadcaster’ Alasdair Lamont shows his true colours

by Editor February 19, 2025

Lamont saw things differently. Spending your working day in the company of Kenny Macintyre, Jane Lewis, Tom English, Neil McCann and Billy Dodds tends to have that affect. He was gutted that Bayern weren’t comfortably ahead, a goal or two for Harry Kane would have been the icing on his…

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Desperate Boyd pines for a return to the Sir David Murray ways at Ibrox!

by Editor February 15, 2025

According to Boyd some soothing words on Monday morning from Sir David would have resolved the issues of the Queens Park defeat, clearly the phrase succulent lamb has never been explained to the Sky Sports expert.

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Tom English goes into hiding as his forceful and positive Belgian hero is humiliated and trashed

by Editor February 11, 2025

Without a worthwhile news story in a career of mediocrity English generally produces puff pieces from afar, with his background he ticks a number of boxes for BBC Scotland where he is affectionately known as House Paddy, a nickname he takes great pride in.

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The great unanswered question over the sale of Kyogo

by Editor February 4, 2025

With those memories painfully fresh, even with bridges rebuilt since his February 2019 departure, it is hard to see Rodgers agreeing to selling Kyogo without the firmest of assurances that a replacement striker was about to be signed.