NEWS STORIES 2004-2005 - PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE THIS PAGE LOADS

Contains ALL of the news from this season's Celtic issues.

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CELTIC PROGRAMMES 1946/47- 2003/04 CDROM 3RD Edition

Joe Gilhooley of the Celtic Collectors Club has published an updated version of his "Celtic Programmes" CDROM. The 3rd edition is the result of 9 months hard work and research and is must for all collectors of Celtic programmes. It has almost 4,000 images of Celtic programmes dating back to 1946/47 and contains info on issues at all levels - Europe, domestic league and cups, reserves, pirates and friendlies. As a bonus, team line-ups, scores and scorers are listed for every domestice league and Cup tie, as well as all European games going back to the formation of the club in 1888. To order a limited edition and numbered copy of the CD, send a cheque or postal order for £12.99 payable to Joe Gilhooley at 47 Mayburn Avenue, Loanhead, Midlothian, EH20 9EY. Postage and packaging are FREE. If you've already bought Edition 1 or 2 and want to upgrade, you can buy Edition 3 for just £5 (including free postage) on return of the your edition 1 (or 2) CD. Do not send the jewel case. CD will be returned to you with the 3rd edition). More info.

THE JIMMY JOHNSTONE WEB SITE

Celtic's greatest ever player, Jimmy Johnstone has his own Web site at www.jimmyjohnstone.com. If you haven't already been there, do it now. Apart from the excellent design of the site making your visit worthwhile alone, the content is superb and you can buy a vast range of Jinky memorabilia using the online shop. The site is Jinky's and the memorabilia is being sold by him so you won't be giving your cash to cowboys out to make a quick earner from Jimmy's name.

As well as a shop, there is a large image and news archive, a biography and statistics section or if you want to get more interactive, you can post a tribute to Jimmy, sign up for his newsletter or watch the short version of his latest film, " Lord of the Wing".

ENAMEL PIN BADGES FOR CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUBS

Would you like to get a badge made for your Celtic Supporters Club but don't know how to go about it? David Hood, a Celtic badge collector, can help your CSC get a new or first badge made at cost price. He can help to design it for you or you can make your own design. David is only interested in collecting badges, he will give you your badges at cost price and makes nothing from the transaction. Sound too good to be true? Well he has already helped over forty CSC's with the same deal. The minimum order is 50 badges and they cost £1 per badge. If you are interested, contact David by email at davidhood1888@btopenworld.com. Why not visit David's Web site and see the badges he has already made.

.FOOTBALL AID CHARITY - PLAY AT CELTIC PARK

Bid to play where your heroes play in 2005!

If you dream of being a defensive dynamo, a midfield maestro or silky striker for Celtic FC at Celtic Park, there's only one way to play in YOUR club's Football Aid event this year. Get a piece of the action, score the ultimate football experience.

BID NOW at - www.footballaid.com

Winning bidders will get the one-off opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a professional footballer for the day. You’ll get your own personalised official strip to play in, exclusive use of the changing rooms, a chance to meet and play alongside ex-club legends and the opportunity to play in a full 90 minutes match on the hallowed turf in front of a crowd of friends and family.

Don't get left on the bench, visit us at www.footballaid.com now to bid for the chance to play on your Field of Dreams!

Remember the money you raise will go towards helping charities chosen by your club as well as those chosen by Football Aid. For full details of bid prices and positions available just visit your team’s page on our website or contact us at info@footballaid.com.

May 2005

.SCOTTISH CUP FINAL 2005 - MARTIN O'GOD'S LAST MATCH

The Celtic players defeated Dundee United 1-0 to win the Scottish Cup at Hampden today and then made history when they insisted that Martin O'Neil went up to accept the cup on their behalf and become the first manager ever to do so. The Celtic fans agreed with that decision as Martin and his backroom team of John Robertson and Steve Walford lifted the famous cup aloft. It was the loudest cheer of the day from a crowd still hurting from the shock defeat at Motherwell just six days ago.

As expected, a match programme was issued in glossy A4 format but was overpriced at £5 and did not sell-out. Click here to see the programme and match ticket.

The next time we see Celtic in a competitive match, Gordon Strachan will be manager and several of the players will have gone to other teams. We are extremely sad that Martin had to go but we wish him, his wife and family all the very best of luck and hope and pray that Geraldine can beat her illness and make a full recovery. Goodbye, God bless and THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for five brilliant years.

.TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ 28/05/05 - THE FINAL FAREWELL

The last ever issue of of Tiocfaidh Ár Lá was on sale at the Scottish Cup Final today. Issue 40 will be the last issue of the magazine in paper format. However, TÁL will continue on the web and they hope to produce a more regular but shorter E-zine edition of the fanzine after a general overhaul of their website at www.talfanzine.com. An article on their Web site explains why they have decided to finish the publication. Read more at the TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ Web site including news of a new fanzine that will be sold at Celtic Park next year. Visit our TÁL page. Two other Celtic fanzines were also being sold at the cup final. Not the View Issue 134 and the latest issue of More than 90 Mins.

.ABERDEEN SPL36 08/05/05

Celtic brought back the 'big guns' for the match against Aberdeen at Celtic Park today and won 2-0 with both goals scored by Big John Hartson. With that result, Celtic remain top by two points with two games to play - Hearts (away) and Motherwell (away).

Celtic issued the final SPL match programme of the season and it featured Paul Lambert on the cover for the last time before he leaves to go into management. It is also possible that this will be the last Celtic programme printed by First Publishing, the company that currently prints ALL of the paperware that Celtic (and Rangers) issue. From next season the Celtic programme and Celtic View will be printed by Oxfordshire-based printers "Cre8".

The June 2005 issue of alternative VIEW was available at the match on Sunday and in your newsagent from today. Issue 36, like the previous issues, covers the subjects that most Celtic supporters are talking about - the first printed mention of the current rumour about Martin O'God taking a six month break from football at the end of this season, Rangers directors on fraud charges, the crap we read from the laptop loyal is disected and much more. Click here for the current issue or here for our aV page. Next issue (37) is out on Wed 8th of June.

.BROTHER WALFRID BROCHURE - 30/04/05

The commemorative Brother Walfrid Memorial Brochure was on sale at today's match with Hibs. The brochure costs £5 and will help to raise funds for a statue of the club's founder to be erected at Celtic Park. You can buy a copy of this superb magazine at all official Celtic outlets and from the Association and Affiliation Web sites.

APRIL 2005

.HIBERNIAN SPL35 30/04/05

Celtic issued a match programme for £2.

.CELTIC YOUTHS

Various Celtic youth teams have been busy playing in friendly matches recently that have produced match programmes. Celtic Boys Club Under 12's played a friendly match against Dutch side sv Ommoord on 25 March. The match was played at Fullarton Park in Glasgow and a four-page, A5 colour programme was produced in very small numbers. Click here to see the programme.

Celtic Under 12's Pro Youth (Adademy) team took part in the pro youth Sens Tournoi Sans Frontière in France from 25th to 27th March 2005 along with teams from Lyon, Nantes, Real Sociedad, Anderlecht and Marseille. Click here to see the tournament programme.

Celtic Under 11s Pro Youth (Adademy) team took part in the Mezzocorana Cup, a pro youth tournament in Italy from 23rd to 25th April. An excellent A4 glossy programme was issued. Click here to see the tournament programme.

Click here to see other Celtic youth and reserve programmes for 2004/05.

.THE SECOND GREAT GLASGOW PROGRAMME FAIR

The 2nd Glasgow Programme Fair will be held tomorrow (Monday 1st) at the Ramada Glasgow City Hotel (formerly the Ingram Hotel) in Ingram Street. The fair will run from 11am to 4pm and admission is free. Many of Scotland's top dealers will have stalls at the fair so why not go along and make it a success.

.CELTIC VETERANS IN DUBAI - 27/04/05

A team of ex-Celts played their Rangers counterparts in the Dubai Charity challenge match recently and an excellent 42 page match programme was issued for the event. Click here to see the programme and more info.

Interestingly, the programme was produced by communications company Cre8.Network. As we reported last month, Cre8.Network will be producing the Celtic (and Rangers) match programme and Celtic View from next season and, If they pick up where First Publishing left off, they will also produce all of the other brochures and magazines that Celtic issue each season - Player of the Year etc.

This could be good news for Celtic collectors as Cre8 already produce programmes for some of the English premiership sides including West Bromich Albion and Chelsea. If you have had a chance to see any of these productions, you will no doubt agree that the standard is much higher compared to some of the rubbish we've had to suffer from First Publishing. For example, the Tom Boyd testimonial programme and more recently, the Jackie McNamara effort. Cre8 will produce the Celtic programme at a consistent size, on quality paper and with more pages. However, the editorial will remain with the Celtic editorial team. Cre8 will also be responsible for marketing and selling the programme so expect the wee guy standing in the pouring rain flogging you a sodden programme for £3 to disappear - hopefully. Visit the flashy Cre8 Web site at www.cre8network.com.

.ST MIRREN UNDER 19'S SFA YOUTH CUP FINAL - 27/04/05

The Under 19's clinched Celtic's first trophy of the season by beating the St Mirren youths 2-0 at Hampden tonight in the SFA Youth Cup Final. The young Celts gave an excellent performance overall with James O'Brien scoring both goals in the first-half while McGlinchey and Ferry controlled the midfield. The St Mirren youths played well also with their best performance coming from Scott Gemmill. An A5 black and white programme was issued free on entry. Click here to see the programme, match ticket and teamsheet.

.THE CELT ISSUE 89 - 26/04/05

Issue 89 of The Celt magazine is out. You can subscribe to The Celt at the address below. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p). Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK. Click here to see the current issue or here for The Celt fanzine page.

.RANGERS SPL34 24/04/05

It was flag day in Govan on Sunday but not for the Dark Force. The super Hoooops had another easy win at the Deathstar with two brilliant goals from Stan Petrov and Craig Bellamy that killed off the Ibrox challenge. Plonker referee Stuart Dougal tried his best to see that his favourites did better but he was wasting his time as Martin O'God's heroes racked up another three points. It just doesn't get any better. A sell-out match programme was issued. Click here to see it. ECK MUST STAY !

FOR SALE - CELTIC STRIPS SIGNED BY MR NOBODY

Have you noticed the amount of 'autographed' Celtic memorabilia for sale on ebay. If we are to believe that all of these items are authentic and have been signed by the actual player(s) and not just by the seller, we must also be willing to believe that the Celtic players do nothing else in their spare time except put their name to the various bits of junk being sold on that Web site. It isn't possible. The truth is that the majority of these items are created by the sellers to swindle you out of your cash. Don't fall for it.

Another ebay con is the selling of items as official when they are not. Right now on ebay another seller is trying to get your money by offering the official teamsheet for the UEFA Cup Final 2003 in Seville. The seller (or whoever gave him/her it) has taken the press kit teamsheet which was downloadable for free from the UEFA Web site and added the UEFA/Carlsberg logo that did appear on the original teamsheet available at the match but has missed out the coloured sponsors logos that appeared at the bottom of the page. If you want to see this auction, click here. Not satisfied with getting your £'s for nothing, this guy wants you pay another £1 for HIS Paypal fees and £2 for postage. That will be £4 (at least) for a single sheet of paper that you can download from the UEFA Web site for nothing.

ebay is a fantastic resource for collectors but beware of the conmen.

ABERDEEN SPL 33 16/04/05

A 3-2 win against the Dons at Celtic Park on Saturday kept Celtic at the top of the SPL for the first game after the split. The young Aberdeen team shocked the 60,000 crowd by going 2-0 up in just 14 minutes through Alexander Diamond and Darren Mackie. Stan Varga pulled one back before half-time and John Hartson and Craig Bellamy each scored in the second half to give the Hoops all three points. Celtic isued their usual style match programme.

.LIVINGSTON SPL 32 13/04/05

Livingston issued their usual style match programme for £2.50. Click here to see the programme and match ticket. After an 82 minute silence at Ibrox during the 1-0 defeat to Dundee United on Tuesday night, Celtic had a chance to go back to their rightful place at the top of the SPL by beating Livingston tonight. The Hoops did it in style and by winning 4-0, they cut their goal difference with Rangers to minus 1. John Hartson grabbed a hat-trick and, candidate for Player of the Year, Stan Varga added the fourth. Eck must stay !

.HEARTS SCOTTISH CUP SEMI-FINAL 10/04/05

The SFA issued a B5 sized match programme with forty glossy pages in full colour for £3. Click here to see a copy of the programme and match ticket. The May 2005 edition of the excellent alternative View Celtic magazine (Issue 35) was also on sale outside the ground and will be available at the usual outlets this week. Click here for our alternative View page.

The MAJORITY of Hearts fans at Hampden today reflected the sectarian and bigoted nature of Scotland. It was there for all to see. None of them can deny it any longer. It is not an Old Firm thing, it's a Scottish thing. Their shameful refusal to observe a minute of silence for Pope John Paul II is all we can expect from bigots and don't believe the usual BBC cover-up claiming that it was only some of them that were involved - they are part of the problem. MOST of the Hearts fans took part in the booing and the singing about being up to their knees in Fenian blood during the planned minute. It was so bad that referee Stuart Dougal had to call an end to the 'silence' after only 16 seconds. The Scottish establishment is full of bigots who hate catholics - the media, the police, judges and lawyers. The list is endless but if First Minister Jack McConnell really wants to do something about Scottish bigotry, let him start with all of the above and not with the persecuted minority.

HEARTS SPL31 02/04/05

Three precious points were lost in the race for the SPL in this match. Hearts played well to win 2-0 but the Hoops had the chances to win this one. Celtic issued their domestic style match programme in the usual numbers.

Two Celtic fanzines were on sale before the match. Issue 32 of More than 90 Mins was available from the usual sources for £2. It seems that there is good news for readers of Green, White & Bold as the mag has been incorporated into Mt90M with this issue. Former contributors to G,W & B will now submit their articles for publication in future issues of Mt90M. Click here for the More than 90 Mins Web site.

Not The View issued number 132 of their popular Celtic fanzine. Like most of the other Celtic fanzines this month, the main articles deal with dodgy linesmen, dodgy penalties, Panorama and the Laptop Loyal. Click here to see every issue of NTV.

MARCH 2005

..ST MIRREN RICKY GILLIES TESTIMONIAL - 30/03/05

St Mirren beat a Celtic XI 1-0 in Ricky Gillies testimonial match at St Mirren Park tonight. Surprisingly, no match programme was issued.

.GREEN, WHITE AND BOLD FOLDS

Regrettably, Green, White & Bold Celtic fanzine has gone out of business. The newest of Celtic fanzines, GW&B sold their first issue at the Kilmarnock match at Celtic Park on 31 January 2004. It was sold at the Rangers end of the ground and in front of the old primary school on London Road where the small print run of 400 copies sold out fast. The writers went on to publish another six issues before folding under, we assume, the financial pressure of running such a publication. Click here to see all seven issues.

.LAST ISSUE OF TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ - 18/04/05

Issue 40 of TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ will be the last issue of the magazine in PAPER format. However, TÁL will continue on the web and they hope to produce a more regular but shorter E-zine edition of the fanzine after a general overhaul of their website at www.talfanzine.com. An article on their Web site explains why they have decided to finish the publication

Read more at the TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ Web site including news of a new fanzine that will be sold at Celtic Park next year. Our thanks to Don Kane of the Johnstone No1 CSC for info on this article. Visit our TÁL page.

RECENT FANZINES AND OTHER ISSUES

The Celt issue 88 is out. The Easter 2005 issue is no different from any other issue of this great mag as it is crammed full of Celtic articles, commentary and statistics that you won't read anywhere else. You can subscribe to The Celt at the address below. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p). Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK. Click here to see the current issue or here for The Celt fanzine page.

Issue 34 of the alternative View was on sale at the Dunfermline match at Celtic Park on 12 March and was in the newsagents the following Wednesday. Always a fantastic read, this issue gives its view on the pathetic Panorama programme shown by the bigoted BBC recently. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. We called the BBC to complain about the bias reporting of their reporter Forbes McFall and his inaccurate report on Celtic fans not observing a minute of silence at Motherwell and we were told by the guy taking the complaint that the Celtic fans deserve everything they get because we didn't observe the minute of silence for the Queen Mother. Honestly, that's what he said. Click here for our alternative View page.

Eire Go Brach CSC held their Annual Charity Dinner on Friday 4th March in the Balmoral Hotel, Belfast. An excellent 28 page A5 glossy brochure with laminated card covers was produced for the event, Tommy Burns on the front cover as guest of honour. Click here to see the brochure cover. Click here for the EGBCSC Web site.

DUNDEE UNITED SPL30 19/03/05 - CRAIG BELLAMY HAT-TRICK

Craig Bellamy scored all three Celtic goals in a tight 3-2 win at Tannadice today and earned Celtic the points needed to go top of the SPL. United issued a match programme for £2.50 in the usual numbers.

INVERNESS C.T. SPL25 16/03/05 - ONLY 1 CRAIG BELLAMY

181 played, 150 won and only 12 defeats. That's Martin O'Neill's SPL record since joining the Champions. Craig Bellamy contributed to that superb record tonight in Inverness. Outstanding, he scored one and made one as the Hoops beat Craig Brewster's ICT 2-0 at the Caledonian Stadium. The result takes Celtic to just one point and four goals behind the Forces of Darkness. Both of these stats will be sorted out this Saturday when Celtic travel to Tannadice to play United and the Dark Force takes on Motherwell in the CIS Cup Final at Hampden. C'mon the Hoops.

As promised, ICT issued the original programme from the match postponed on 13 Feb with an A5, four page, black and white insert included. Click here to see the programme, insert and match ticket.

DUNFERMLINE SPL 29 12/03/05

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HIBERNIAN SPL 28 - 06/03/05

The Champions went to Easter Road today and destroyed Hibernian 3-1 in a thrilling match. Craig Bellamy gave the Hibs defence a roasting, they hacked and kicked him while referee Kenny Clark let them. Stan Petrov scored the first, Big John Hartson got number two and Craig Bellamy rounded off the day for the travelling fans by scoring Celtic's third. That result puts the pressure on Rangers as Celtic are only 4 points behind with 2 games in hand. Hibs issued a match programme for £2.

THE VIEW FROM THE 32 ISSUE 12 - 02/03/05

The View from the 32 is the official magazine of the Association of Irish Celtic Supporters Clubs. The current offering is for Spring 2005, it is numbered Issue 12 and was being sold at Celtic Park before the match with Dundee. The magazine is A4 size, printed in full-colour throughout on gloss paper and has a price to match - £3.00 / €4.50. It is really aimed at members of the AICSC and is of limited interest to Celtic fans based in Scotland. Click here for a picture of the current issue or here to visit out TVFT32 page and see every issue of the mag...Visit the AICSC official Web site.

.DUNDEE SPL 27 - 02/03/05

Celtic issued their usual domestic style match programme for the SPL match with Dundee tonight. The programme cost £2, was available in the usual numbers and did not sell-out.

FEBRUARY 2005

RANGERS SPL26 20/02/05.

Scarce programme.

..CLYDE FC SCOTTISH CUP - 27/02/05

Celtic beat Clyde 5-0 in an entertaining match at Broadwood Stadium today. Stan Varga started the scoring by heading Celtic into a 1-0 lead in 40 minutes. Alan Thompson scored number two from the penalty spot, Stilian Petrov scored number three, Varga scored his second and Celtic's fourth and Craig Bellamy finished off the scoring with his first goal for the Hoops in the 72nd minute.

"The Clyde View" - Clyde issued an excellent A4 size match programme for the match and it is easy to see why Clyde won Scottish Programme of the Year last season. The 52 page programme was printed in full colour on gloss paper for only £2.50 and is easily the best Celtic programme this season.

If Clyde can issue a programme of this quality for £2.50, how come we had to pay £3 for Celtic's Scottish Cup issue against Rangers. That issue couldn't touch this programme in any department and we sell in much larger numbers than Clyde.

.RANGERS SPL 26 - 20/02/05

Celtic issued their usual type of match programme for the SPL match against Rangers on Sunday. Click here for a bigger picture and more information.

Three other Celtic related publications were also on sale at the match. Issue 31 of More than 90 Mins was available but it was very difficult to find the sellers and the copies available sold out early.

The old favourite, Not The View were selling Issue 131 picturing new Bhoy Craig Bellamy on the front cover along with his fellow Welshman John Hartson.

Finally, the alternative VIEW sellers were there with Issue 33 of their excellent magazine. Click here for our Celtic fanzines page.

.THE CELT NUMBER 86 FEBRUARY 2005 - 07/02/05

The Celt fanzine for February 2005 was issued this week. Issue 86 cost just £1.25 for 28 pages of pure Celtic history and stats. You can subscribe to The Celt at the address below. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p). Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK. Click here for The Celt fanzine page.

DUNFERMLINE 06/02/05 - A STROLL IN THE ASTRO PARK

Celtic strolled to Scottish Cup victory by 3-0 at East End Park today. John Hartson (2) and Chris Sutton scored in the first-half to end the Fifers challenge. Pars issued a 48 page programme for £2.50. Click here to see a picture and more info.

JANUARY 2005

..THE JIMMY JOHNSTONE WEB SITE

Celtic's greatest ever player, Jimmy Johnstone has his own Web site at www.jimmyjohnstone.com. If you haven't already been there, do it now. Apart from the excellent design of the site making your visit worthwhile alone, the content is superb and you can buy a vast range of Jinky memorabilia using the online shop. The site is Jinky's and the memorabilia is being sold by him so you won't be giving your cash to cowboys out to make a quick earner from Jimmy's name.

KILMARNOCK SPL24 30/01/05

Celtic beat Kilmarnock 1-0 at Rugby Park today thanks to a Chris Sutton penalty. Kilmarnock issued a page match programme for £2.

MOTHERWELL SPL23 22/01/05

Celtic beat Terry Butcher's Motherwell 2-0 today and moved six points in front of second place Rangers. Goals from Stan Petrov and Chris Sutton were the only rays of light in a very dull match. Click here to see a picture of the match programme

Somebody must have been handing out the happy pills to the Parkhead accountant this week because everyone that bought a match programme today was given a free "Hoops We Did It Again" video with their programme. Okay, the video is almost three years old, is obviously stock that they can't shift and is an (almost) defunct media type but, out of date peanuts and scabby old mince pies to celebrate the birth of Christ aside, this is the first gift that I can remember getting from the Club and I hope it is not the last.

alternative VIEW FEBRUARY 2005 - 19/01/05

Issue 32 of alternative VIEW is out. For £2.50, you get thirty two A4 pages printed in full-colour on glossy paper. You can buy the current issue and order back issues of the mag by email at fitba@btconnect.com. Click this link to see a picture of Issue 32 or this one to see every issue of aV on our alternative VIEW page. To advertise in the aV - 0779 110 1871.

ABERDEEN SPL 16/01/05

RECENT FANZINES - 14/01/05

The Celt fanzine for January 2005 was issued this week. Issue 85 cost just £1 and is worth every penny. It one of best mags around these days and is crammed with stuff about Celtic that you won't read anywhere else. The Celt can be bought from the address below and you can subscribe to their very reliable subscription service. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p). Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK. Click here for The Celt fanzine page.

The only other place to buy the wee mag (as far as we know) is from GlasgowProgrammes.com. They have an excellent Web site where you can order a copy. Danny Jacobs, the owner of GlasgowProgrammes.com, also has a stall at the front of the Celtic car park on match days and he will be happy to sell you a copy there.

The first Tiocfaidh Ár Lá of the season was on sale at Rangers Scottish Cup match last Sunday (09/01/05). Issue 39 cost £2/€3 for 24 A4 pages in full-colour. With only three issues produced per season, TÁL publishes fewer times per season than any other Celtic fanzine. Click here to visit our TÁL page. Visit the official TÁL Web site - www.talfanzine.com/.

RANGERS Scottish Cup 09/01/05

LIVINGSTON SPL21 02/01/05

Celtic beat Livingston 2-1 today thanks to goals by John Hartson and Chris Sutton. Celtic issued a 40 page match programme for £2.

More Than 90 Mins Issue 30 was on sale at today's match. The milestone issue for January 2005 has 32 A4 pages in full colour for £2 / 3€. Inside, Mt90M calls for a bhoycot of the The Sun newspaper by Celtic fans after the disgraceful comments about Martin O'Neill by their crap reporter Bill Leckie. Why not? We should stop buying it. Just like the BBC, The Daily Record and others (you know who they are), they hate Celtic so why should we give them our money. Stop now!

DECEMBER 2004

HEARTS SPL20 26/12/04 - TOP OF THE LEAGUE FOR 2005

Celtic were back to great form today at Tynecastle. They played Hearts off the park in an easy 2-0 victory to make sure they stay at the top of the SPL into 2005. Young Aiden McGeeady scored first in 9 minutes from a great move down the right and cross from Stan Petrov. Petrov fired his pass through the Hearts box where McGeady met it and blasted the ball past the helpless Hearts goallie. Celtic's second was just as good. Chris Sutton won the ball in the air, heading it into the path of Stan Petrov and he fired another rocket past Gordon. Hearts issued their usual type of match programme for £2.50.

NEW CELTIC PROGRAMMES WEB SITE LAUNCHED

A new Web site is now available for Celtic collectors (and Rangers) to add to their collection online. David Farrell is a very experienced collector and he is offering a wide range of programmes at realistic prices. If you need a programme for your collection, try David's site before you pay the prices on ebay. The site has been developed by Joe Gillhooley of the Celtic Collectors Club and it is very easy to use.

Programme lists are well organised into catagories with the condition and price included. You can print an order form on the site and send email enquiries to the seller. For Celtic collectors used to being ripped off on ebay, you can trust the programme prices to be fair, the descriptions to be accurate, the programmes to be authentic and, having bought from David in the past, be sure of a professional and polite service. You can find the Web site at www.davidfarrellprogrammes.com.

DUNDEE UNITED SPL19 18/12/04 - THE CHAMPIONS STAY TOP

Celtic made sure that they remained at the top of the SPL for Christmas after a Chris Sutton goal gave them all 3 points in a 1-0 win against the Arabs. Celtic issued the usual type programme for domestic matches but there was a very small print run of just 6,500. Click here to see a picture of the match programme.

RANGERS U19's SPL Youth League at The Excelsior Stadium, 17/12/04.

ENAMEL PIN BADGES FOR CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUBS

Would you like to get a badge made for your Celtic Supporters Club but don't know how to go about it? David Hood, a Celtic badge collector, can help your CSC get a new or first badge made at cost price. He can help to design it for you or you can make your own design. David is only interested in collecting badges, he will give you your badges at cost price and makes nothing from the transaction. Sound too good to be true? Well he has already helped over forty CSC's with the same deal. The minimum order is 50 badges and they cost £1 per badge. If you are interested, contact David by email at davidhood1888@btopenworld.com. Why not visit David's Web site and see the badges he has already made.

GLASGOW PROGRAMMES AND MEMORABILIA FAIR IN 2005

Scotland's programme dealers have arranged a football programmes fair on Monday 3rd January 2005 between 11am - 4pm. The fair will be held in the Ramanda Glasgow City Hotel (Formerly known as the Ingram Hotel) in Ingram Street, Glasgow. Admission to the fair is free. Most of Scotland's top programme dealers will be there including - GlasgowProgrammes.com, Peter and Kath Rundo, D&D Programmes, Stuart Marshall, Almondvale Programmes and more (sorry if I missed you out). If you visit GlasgowProgrammes.com's Web site before you go and print off their front page, the site's owner will give you a free Celtic programme by presenting the page at his stall.

AC MILAN Champions League, Group F Match 6, 07/12/04

HIBERNIAN SPL17 04/12/04 - BACK ON TOP

There's only one Neil Lennon and he was on the cover of today's match programme for the SPL match against Hibs at Celtic Park. Celtic won this hard-fought match 2-1 but it wasn't easy. Ex-Celt, Tony Mowbray's young Hibs team are fit, skilful and competitive and they almost snatched a point from this match. That is, until big John Hartson stepped in with his, and Celtic's, second goal of the game to give the HooooooooooPs all three points. Click here to see a picture of the match programme.

You could also buy two Celtic fanzines and a new Champions League match badge at today's game. Not The View Issue 129 and More than 90 Mins Issue 29 were being sold at £1.50(NTV) and £2.00/€3(Mt90M). The match badge is for Tuesday's Champions League tie with AC Milan at Celtic Park. It is well made and worth the £2.

NOVEMBER 2004

HILL O' BEATH HAWTHORN - 28/11/04

Celtic sent a group of youngsters to Keirs Park on Sunday 28th November to play Hill O' Beath Hawthorn in the Brian Kenny testimonial match. A testimonial match programme was issued. Thanks to Celtic Collectors Club for the match programme image. This is the second time Celtic have played at Keirs Park in as many years. During the 2002/03 season Celtic sent a team to play in the Bruce Deas testimonial match and again a match programme was issued but in small numbers making it difficult to get.

CELTIC PROGRAMMES FOR SALE

A private collector has asked us to help him sell some excess programmes from his collection. The programmes range from some quite common issues to the rare TPS Turku away European Cup programme. All are at set prices and you can see the list here.

BARCELONA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 24/11/04

No official programme for Celtic's Champions League match in the Camp Nou. Fortunately, there were two unofficial issues from the usual Spanish pirateers on sale for 5€ each. The match itself was a 1-1 draw with John Hartson scoring just before half-time to level for the Hooped heroes. Barcelona are a fantastic team and their talent is immense but the Bhoys played well and held out in the second-half to secure our first away point in the Champions League. Celtic are now the only team to leave the Camp Nou undefeated this season. Click for a picture of the pirate programmes and match ticket.

Well done to Martin, his backroom staff, the players and the travelling fans. Everybody deserved this break after the racist and sectarian abuse they have to suffer in Scotland - especially over the past couple of weeks. Did you notice that a number of the players taking part in the match chose to bless themselves on entering the field. As far as we know, this did not result in any street riots or other kinds of unrest around Barcelona. It does in Scotland though and the authorities have banned Catholics from making the sign of the cross. Do you believe that? It's 2004 and football players in Scotland are not allowed to show that they are catholic for fear of offending the local population. Apparently, when they see this being done, it fills them with rage and they are unable to control themselves. Maybe that's the same thing that happens when they see Neil Lennon. Although he played exactly the same way as he does in bigoted Scotland, the Barca fans did not hurl sectarian abuse at Neil Lennon every time he touched the ball. Another thing, we laughed when he heard the news that some orc in charge of the Orcs Supporters Clubs thinks that Martin O'Neil should apologies to them for merely waving to the Celtic fans at Saturday's 'Afternoon at the Proms'. All we can say is don't hold your breath. We will never apologise.

RANGERS SPL15 20/11/04.

JIMMY JOHNSTONE TRIBUTE BROCHURE - 19/11/04

The Jimmy Johnstone tribute night dinner was held on 24 October at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow. The organising committee printed a brilliant 24 page, A5 brochure for the occasion. The first 12 pages are unmissable and tell the story of the wee man's career, as told by Jinky himself. The story is illustrated throughout with photographs from Jinky's favourite games, most of them you will have seen before but some were new to me. It is a fantastic bit of Celtic memorabilia and as it celebrates Celtic's greatest ever player, you may want to get a hold of one.

There are a limited number of the brochures still available to buy and remember that all the money raised goes to The Jimmy Johnstone Tribute Fund. If you want one, please send a MINIMUM DONATION of £3 plus £1 package and posting to Eddie McGaw, 12 Minnipool Brae, Creetown, Newton Stewart, DG8 7HL. Cheques should be made payable to "THE JIMMY JOHNSTONE TRIBUTE FUND". A Paypal facility is available by email at the Celtic Collectors Club. Don't miss out.

ALTERNATIVE VIEW HITS 30 - 17/11/04

They looked down and out at one time but aV has survived the hard times to celebrate another milestone in their history by issuing number 30 of their excellent Celtic magazine. The AV cannot be regarded as a fanzine. Nothing about it makes it suitable for the tag of fanzine. For a start, it is printed professionally, on high quality paper, in full colour. The images and articles inside are of a very high standard, as good as you will find and the whole production is on a par with the club's own Celtic View. However, like the various Celtic related fanzines, the main drive of the mag is making sure that the people running our club know what we think of what they are doing and poking fun at Rangers, their 'fans' and their players.Good luck AV and keep up the good work.

THE CELT NUMBER 83 WINTER 2004 - 17/11/04

A new issue of The Celt football magazine for is out. The Winter Issue 83 has 28 A5 pages crammed with Celtic related info for £1.25. It is a brilliant read, the articles are fascinating and are the type that you just don't get from any other Celtic publication. This month's issue has a picture of Coronation Cup winner Alex Rollo who sadly died in October. Click here to see a picture of the current issue or here to see every issue of The Celt. The mag can be bought from the address below by subscription. Subscriptions give great value at £5 for 4 issues and the price includes p&p. Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK.

INVERNESS CT SPL14 13/11/04

Chris Sutton returned from injury today and took only three minutes to put Celtic 1-0 up against Inverness CT. That goal was followed by another two from John Hartson in 53 and 77 minutes. Celtic issued their usual match programme for domestic matches. Click this to see a match ticket.

CIS LEAGUE CUP - 10/11/04

Celtic were beaten 2-1 tonight in the 4th round of the CIS Cup. John Hartson put Celtic in front with a header in the 66th minute. With 83 minutes gone, it looked like the Hoops would make it another victory over the Ibrox strugglers but a mistake by Alan Thompson let them equalise late in the game and score the winner in extra time. A match programme was on sale for £2. Click this for a picture of a match ticket.

CURRENT FANZINES - NOVEMBER 2004

Three fanzines have produced new issues for November - More then 90 Mins issue 28 £2, Not The View issue 128 (wrongly numbered Issue 127) £1.50 and Green, White and Bold Issue 7 £1.50. Click here for our fanzines page. Green, White & Bold have launched a new Web site. Try it out at www.greenwhiteandbold.net.

INVERNESS CLACHNACUDDIN YOUTH CUP 7/11/04

Celtic Under 19's travelled up to Grant Street Park in Inverness on Sunday to play Clachnacuddin in the third round of the Scottish Youth Cup. A 1-0 win for the young Celts was ensured by English striker Kirk Hudson in the 78th minute when he beat the Clach keeper at his near post with a low drive. Clachnacuddin issued an eight page match programme with colour covers for £1. Click here for the 2004/05 Youths page.

KILMARNOCK SPL13 away 06/11/04

SHAKHTAR DONETSK CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2/11/04

OCTOBER 2004

MOTHERWELL SP12 30/10/04

ABERDEEN SPL 11 - 27/10/04

Aberdeen came to Celtic Park tonight and left with all three points as Celtic lost 2-3. The Dons were two up in 6 minutes with goals from Darren Mackie and Fernando Pasquinelli. Celtic struggled to get back on equal terms but did eventually draw level thanks to goals from John Hartson in 45 and 69 minutes. As Celtic pushed for the winner, they were caught short at the back, John Stewart recieved a long pass, steadied himself and shot past Marshall to end Celtic's unbeaten domestic run. Celtic issued their usual match programme for domestic fixtures.

LIVINGSTON SPL10 24/10/04

SHAKHTAR DONETSK CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 20/10/04

The Celtic board's failure to strengthen Martin O'Neill's squad for Europe finally caught up with them tonight in the Ukraine as the Bhoys were beaten 3-0. There was an official programme and one pirate programme on sale at the match. Click this to see a match ticket. Do you know that you can download a free press kit for the Shakhtar Donetsk match from the media services section of the official UEFA Web site?

HEARTS SPL 9 - 16/10/04

Junhino scored his first goal for Celtic in a 3-0 win against the Jammy Farts today. Hearts played a kick-on-sight system likely to be used in their UEFA Cup match in midweek as they clugged their way through the game. The hardman tactics didn't work and they were swept aside by Celtic when Henri Camara, Junhino and big John Hartson scored to rock their tiny world. Celtic issued the usual domestic style programme for £2 with Chris Sutton on the front cover. Click here to see a picture of the match programme. Click here for every programme this season.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MEMORABILIA - 16/10/04

Celtic's involvement in the Champions League has already produced an unbelievable amount of collectibles. Programmes (official and pirate), Pennants, match tickets and pin badges are among the most popular. On the right, is the latest Group F pin badge to appear for the Champions League but there have been at least 25 others (for all matches). If you want to see pictures of the other badges, click here. Click here to see a bigger version of the new Group F badge.

Although we are still waiting for the first pirate at a Champions League match, it is a certainty that many pirates will appear for this week's match in the Ukraine. At least four have appeared on ebay already, brought back from the Scotland World Cup tie in Moldova last week by members of the Tartan Army. Here are links to the four pirates being sold on ebay - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4.

Interested in collecting Celtic badges? You can find out all you'll ever need to know at David Hood's Celtic Badges Web site. David's site is a must for badge collectors with hundreds of pictures of Celtic badges and other info. Another great Celtic badges Web site is the Home of CSC Badges run by William Mulholland. William concentrates on badges for Celtic Supporters Clubs.

THE VIEW FROM EVERY ANGLE 16/10/04

New issues for four different Celtic publications were available this week - the alternative VIEW Issue 29 Tuesday 12/10/04 £2.50 | the Celtic View Issue 14 Wednesday 13/10/04 £1.95 | Not The View Issue 27 Saturday 16/10/04 £1.50 | the view from the 32 Issue 11 Saturday 16/10/04 £2.99. Click here to go to our Celtic fanzines page.

THE CELT - ISSUE 82 OCTOBER 2004

A new issue of The Celt football magazine for is out. The October Issue 82 has 28 A5 pages crammed with Celtic related info. It is a brilliant read that you can't stop until you've finished it. Some of the articles are fascinating and are the type that you just don't get from any other Celtic publication. This month's issue has a picture of a 19th Century Celtic player called Hugh Hilley on the front cover and an article inside that makes you want to know more about the man. Click here to see a picture of the current issue or here to see every issue of The Celt. The mag can be bought from the address below and you can subscribe to their very reliable subscription service. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p and there are usually six issues per year (although there has been one every month for the last three months). Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, UK.

The only other place to buy the wee mag (as far as we know) is from GlasgowProgrammes.com who have an excellent Web site and an online ordering system. Danny Jacobs, the owner of GlasgowProgrammes.com, also has a stall at the front of the Celtic car park on match days and he will be happy to sell you a copy there.

DUNDEE UNITED SPL 8 - 03/10/04

Celtic remained unbeaten in the SPL with a 3-0 win against Dundee Utd at Tannadice today. Chris Sutton (2) and Stillian Petrov scored the goals in an exciting first-half. United published a B5 match programme with 64 glossy pages for £2.50. Click for a picture of a match ticket.

CELTIC PIN BADGES 2004/05

Pin badges are a very popular kind of memorabilia for Celtic fans to collect. There are so many badges available these days it is very difficult to keep up with new releases. If you're finding it difficult to keep track of new releases, try David Hood's Celtic badges Web site. There are hundreds of pictures of badges, old and new and David puts a picture of every new badge that becomes available on the site.

Another great site for CSC badges is William Mulholland's The Home of Celtic Badges. Already this season, there has been over twenty big-match badges released with more still to come. To see most of the current season's big match badges, click here.

SEPTEMBER 2004

AC MILAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 29/09/04

No official programme for the AC Milan match in the Stadio San Siro. Absolutely no pirates on sale at the match and no pennants either. Three different match badges were sold at the game for 5 Euros each - AC Milan, Barcelona and a Group F pin. Click here to see a match ticket.

Do you know that you can download a free press kit for the AC Milan match from the media services section of the official UEFA Web site?

DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC SPL7 25/09/04

Stanislav Varga (20) and Henri Camara (38, 54) scored the goals in a 3-0 win against the Pars at Celtic Park today. That's five goals in as many starts for Henri Camara as the Senegalese striker settles into life in the SPL. Celtic issued the usual domestic style match programme for £2 with CIS Cup hat-trick hero Ross Wallace on the front cover. Click these links to see a picture of a match ticket and Paradise Windfall ticket.

Celtic supporters are collecting funds to erect a statue of Celtic founder Brother Walfrid outside Celtic Park. As part of the fundraising campaign, a can collection was held prior to the match and for a £1 minimum donation fans were given a special badge in the shape of a Celtic cross with the founders head and shoulders on it. A picture of the badge appeared on the front cover of the match programme and there was an article inside.

FALKIRK CIS LEAGUE CUP 3rd ROUND, CELTIC PARK 21/09/04.

CELTIC 8 FALKIRK 1 CIS League Cup 3rd round, Celtic Park 21/09/04. Click the picture for a bigger picture and more info.

HIBERNIAN SPL 6 - 19/09/04

Celtic drew 2-2 with Hibs at Easter Road today and lost their 100% record in the league. All four goals were scored in a dramatic first-half. In just eight minutes, Bobo Balde diverted a weak Hibs cross over David Marshall and into the net before Henri Camara equalised at the other end in 34 minutes. Hibs replied just one minute later to go 2-1 up through David Murphy and John Hartson rounded off the scoring seconds before Mike McCurry blew for half-time. Hibs issued a 56 page, glossy, A5 size match programme in full-colour for £2. Click this to see a picture of a match ticket.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AWAY PROGRAMMES

The AC Milan game looms on Tuesday but don't expect a programme for the game at the Stadio San Siro. A conflict with the club's sponsors and UEFA's sponsors means that neither Milan or Barcelona publish a match programme for Champions League games. However, both clubs have been known to issue an advert-free, VIP edition but it is unclear if this will happen at the moment - looks like Milan are more likely to issue a VIP than Barca. By all accounts, Shakhtar do publish an official programme and sometimes more than one version. Pirate programmes should be on sale at all three games.

FC BARCELONA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH 1 - 14/09/04

Celtic lost their first Champions League group match 1-3 tonight at Celtic Park against FC Barcelona. The defeat means that Celtic's run of 19 home games unbeaten in Europe comes to an end. Deco put Barca 1-0 up after twenty minutes, Chris Sutton equalised with a great effort in the sixtieth minute but Giuly scored in 78 and Larsson added a third eight minutes from time to take the match out of Celtic's reach. It was a pleasure to watch this match, to see the fantastic talent of Barcelona once again but it would have been even better if Martin O'Neil had been given some money to buy the players we need to compete in this arena. Anyone want to swap Roman Abramovich for Dermott Desmond?

An A4 match programme with 48 full colour pages was issued in high numbers. The programme did not sell-out. The only other bits of official memorabilia on sale were a Celtic / Barcelona friendship scarf and a match pennant. Click these links to see a picture of a match ticket and Windfall ticket. Click here to last season's Barcelona programmes.

Do you know that you can download a free press kit for the Barcelona match from the media services section of the official UEFA Web site? Parts of this kit are often offered for sale on ebay - as 'rare official teamsheets' for example. The kit includes the official UEFA team line-ups, a match facts booklet, half-time/full-time report sheets and a player summary statistics sheet. All of it comes as PDF files (Portable Document Format) that are read and printed using Adobe Reader software you can download free from Adobe's Web site.

DUNDEE SPL5 11/09/04 - TWO FOR HENRI CAMARA

Celtic kept their 100% record by beating Dundee in front of almost 57,000 fans today at Celtic Park. Henri Camara scored his first ever competitive goal for Celtic and followed that with his second after John Hartson made it two. The 3-0 win keeps Celtic at the top of the SPL, six points in front of second place Aberdeen. Fourth place Rangers could slip to fifth if they are beaten by Hearts at Tynecastle tomorrow. Celtic Issued a match programme for £2 that did not sell out.

LATEST CELTIC FANZINES - 11/09/04

Three Celtic fanzines had their latest issues on sale at Celtic Park today. Issue 6 of Green, White & Bold and Issue 26 of Mt90M and Issue 28 of Alternative View. Click here for our fanzine page.

LAS VEGAS CELTIC SUPPORTERS CONVENTION 2005

The NAFCSC Las Vegas convention is being held again next year to take it out of sync with football's most prestigious soccer tournaments - the Euro Championships and World Cup. Normally held every two years, this change will mean that it will be happening in the years between these tournaments.

If you would like to attend the 2005 event next June and want full colour details sent to your house or PC, contact Gerry Gallagher, 1 Greenhil, Largs, Ayrshire KA30 9JY or email gerryccw@btopenworld.com for details and booking information.

THE CELT - ISSUE 81 05/09/04

The Autumn issue of THE CELT fanzine is out. Issue 81 has the Captain of the 7-1 side, Bertie Peacock, on the front cover. As we all know, Bertie sadly passed away recently and, predictably, THE CELT pays tribute to the great man in this issue. The mag can only be bought from the address below and you can subscribe to their very reliable subscription service. Subscriptions give fantastic value at £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p and there are usually six issues per year. Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY, U.K. Click here to see a picture of the current issue or here to see every issue of The Celt.

CELTIC VIEW - CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SUPPLEMENT - 01/09/04

Issue 8 of the Celtic View is out today and it included a UEFA Champions League Guide 2004/05 as a supplement magazine. It is similar to last season's Champions League Guide 2003/04 in shape and design - the first of these guides. Produced to their usual very high standards, the cover is a work of digital art and is well worth the £1 it will cost you if you didn't get a free copy with the View. The guide has 16 A4 pages in full-colour with all the info you need on our Group F opponents.

MACMILLAN NURSES CHARITY FOOTBALL BADGES - 01/09/04

The MacMillan Nurses Charity are selling famous football shirt replica badges to raise funds that allow them to carry on their work with very sick patients. Anyone who has had a terrible disease like cancer touch their family or friends will be well aware of the fantastic work that they do. Please click this link for the Beery Bits and Bobs Web site and buy a badge for the team(s) of your choice. Teams include - Celtic, Rangers, Manchester United, Newcastle, Liverpool and Arsenal.

AUGUST 2004

RANGERS SPL4 29/08/04 - DEBUT FOR BRAZILLIANT JUNINHO

Alan Thompson scored a brilliant goal in front of 59,000 fans today to beat Rangers 1-0 and set a record of 7-wins-in-a-row in Old Firm games for the Hoops. Brazilian magician Juninho made a fantastic debut and helped Celtic move five points in front of rivals Rangers. Celtic issued a match programme with Stan Petrov on the cover. Click these for pictures of the new style official teamsheet and a match ticket.

NOT THE VIEW ISSUE 125 - 29/08/04

Issue 125 of Not The View fanzine was on sale at the 7-in-a-row match Rangers today. It has a nice looking cover with a Brazilian theme - a theme we will all be getting used to in the current season with. Issue 26 of More than 90 Mins fanzine was also on sale but we don't have a picture to show you yet. Click here for our fanzines page.

CELTIC - CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW 26/08/04

Celtic have been drawn in Group F of the Champions League along with A.C. Milan of Italy, FC Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine and Henrik Larsson's Barcelona. The King of Kings will return to Paradise earlier than we expected .... or wanted. Matches will be played on either Tuesday's or Wednesday's through to December. The full list of matches for Celtic are as follows:

Tues 14 Sept BARCELONA at home; Wed 29 Sept Milan away; Wed 20 Oct Shakhtar away; Tues 2 Nov SHAKHTAR home; Wed 24 Nov Barcelona away; Tues 7 Dec MILAN Home. There will be match programmes for all of the matches at Celtic Park but Milan and Barcelona don't always issue for Euro games and Shakhtar are an unknown quantity.

Barcelona and Milan are well known but our Pot 4 opponents have never been to Celtic Park before. FC Shakhtar Donetsk play in the Ukranian League and are currently in first place after four matches without defeat, scoring nine goals with only one against. They play their home matches at Central Stadium, Donetsk, a stadium with a capacity of just under 32,000.

They play in orange tops and socks (good excuse for the forces of darkness to support them) with black shorts. They have had four different names in the relatively short time since they were founded in 1936. Under the Stalin regime as part of the former Soviet Union, they have been known as Ugolshchiki, Stakhanovets and Shakhtyor before choosing the current name in 1992. Their highest achievement in Europe so far is UEFA Champions League Group Stage 1 in the Season 2000/2001 and reaching the quarter-final of European Cups' Winner Cup in 1983/84.

INVERNESS CALEY THISTLE SPL3 22/08/04

Inverness CT issued a 64 page glossy programme for their first ever league match against Celtic. It was issued in small numbers, is quite scarce and will be a difficult one to get in the future.. The front cover has a photo of ex-celt Liam Keogh as well as match deatails and club sponsors. The inside cover has ICT information and club honours. The next 10 pages have some drivel from their moaning faced wee manager and some other club news and photos. Six pages are then set aside for Celtic info and this is followed by ICT match reports for the reserves as well as the big team. Liam Keogh has a six page spread and the centre pages are used for a full-colour team photo.

The rest of the programme is used for club news and other articles. Squad details and referees are on the back cover. Although it is now one of the programmes priced at £2.50, for ICT fans it is probably reasonable value for money. As a Celtic collector, I would prefer to see less glitz, less glamour, less drivel, less pages (these mult-page programmes are difficult to store) and a more realistic price of £1 to £2. Click here to see the match programme and match ticket.

KILWINNING RANGERS - PAUL MULLIN TESTIMONIAL 18/08/04

A young Celtic team travelled to Abbey Park, Kilwinning to play a testimonial match for Rangers full-back Paul Mullin tonight. Paul is a Celtic supporter and signed for the Buffs 10 years ago from Kilmarnock FC. Kilwinning issued a testimonial match programme with 36 A5 pages of mainly adverts but it had enough reading to make the £1 it cost worth paying. Click here to see the match programme and a match ticket. Not a sell-out.

KILMARNOCK SPL2 SATURDAY 14/08/04

John Hartson and Alan Thompson scored two goals each to give the Celts a 4-2 victory at Rugby Park today. Kilmarnock issued a 40 page match programme for £2. Click this link to see a match ticket.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FRIENDLY 10/08/04

Celtic beat Spurs 2-0 in tonight's friendly match at Celtic Park. A very small crowd by Celtic Park standards watched Craig Beattie and Henri Camara score the goals that added Spurs to the list of English Premiership teams the Hoops have beaten recently. Celtic issued a match programme but it was not a sell-out. Click to see a picture of a match ticket, Paradise Windfall ticket and an unofficial match pin badge.

MOTHERWELL SPL1 08/08/04

Celtic got their SPL league campaign off to a winning start today at Celtic Park with a 2-0 win over Motherwell. Celtic captain Jackie McNamara scored the first competitive goal of the season with a powerful shot in just 8 minutes and Chris Sutton made it two in 55. Celtic published a 40 page match programme that did not sell out.

CELTIC YOUTHS IN THE LOCH LOMOND TOURNAMENT 6-8/08/04

A team of Celts have been playing in the "Loch Lomond Youth Soccer Festival". The well-established tournament was held between the 6 and 8 August at Glasgow University Garscube Sports Complex in Glasgow. As usual, the organisers have published a nice tournament programme.

NEWCASTLE UNITED PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY - 04/08/04

Celtic issued a 40 page match programme with Craig Beattie on the redesigned cover. There was a very small print run and most sellers sold out before the match. The programme is the same size as last season's programme but is printed on cheaper glossy paper. Click here to see a picture of a match ticket and Paradise Windfall ticket. No mugs, pennants, match badges or any other memorabilia was on sale in the Celtic shops. Celtic won the match 2-1 at an empty Celtic Park with goals from Momo Sylla and new Bhoy Henri(k) Camara. Newcastle scored first, Sylla equalised and Camara scored the winner.

THE CELT ISSUE 80 AUGUST 2004

Issue 80 of The Celt magazine is out. It has 24 A5 pages, printed black on copier quality paper. It is crammed with fantastic reading and there are contributions from Celtic author, Tom Campbell. The Celt is the most difficult of Celtic publications to get but if your interested enough, you can subscribe to the reliable subscription service. Subscriptions are £5 for every 4 issues, the price includes p&p and there are six issues per year. Send your payment to E.A. MacBride, 31, Harrowby Lane, GRANTHAM, NG31 9HY. Click here to see a picture of the current issue and here to see every issue of The Celt.

JULY 2004

TIMESPAST - THE STORY OF GLASGOW IN PICTURES PART 10

Published on 24/08/04, "Celtic: The Glory Years" is Part 10 of the Evening TImes supplement series, "TimesPast - The Story of Glasgow in Pictures". The newspaper supplement has 28 pages containing photographs from the entire history of Celtic. Some of the pictures are quite common and most people will recognise them but there are many that, depending on your age, will be completely new to you.

It is a fantastic pictorial record of Celtic and Glasgow, it brought back many memories