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JANUARY 2012

CELTIC QUICK NEWS MAGAZINE - 10/01/2012

CQN magazine is a new Celtic related publication created by the popular Web blog called Celtic Quick News. Published in both digital and printed versions, the first issue appeared at the start of season 2011/2012. Since then there have been a further four issues of the magazine and three 'match programme' specials issued for the Europa Leagues ties against Udinese (h), Rennes (a) and Atletico (h). Click this to see all eight issues printed so far.

You can order a printed copy of CQN Magazine, issue 5, with credit/debit card or Paypal and buy direct from the UK for only £3.50 + £1.50 postage and packing at the www.celticquicknews.co.uk Web site. A free digital copy is included with each printed copy that you buy and back copies can be bought online at www.MagCloud.com.

Click here to view the new issue of CQN Magazine online for free. You can support the online edition by making a discretionary donation here.

Issue 6 is due out in late January 2012.

PETERHEAD SCOTTISH CUP - 08/01/2012

Anthony Stokes scored all three goals in Celtic's 3-0 Scottish Cup victory over Peterhead at Balmoor Stadium today. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

DECEMBER 2011

CELTIC ON TOP SPL21 - 28/12/2011

Celtic moved to the top of the SPL with a 1-0 win over the former league leaders at Celtic Park tonight. Joe Ledley headed the only goal early in the second-half to give Neil Lennon a victory in the final match of 2011. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

THE HUDDLE ISSUE 1 - 24/12/2011

Celtic have published Issue 1 of a new football comic aimed at the younger Celtic fan. The eight page comic called The Huddle cost £2 and is printed in full-colour throughout. The first issue contains comic strips called Hoopy & Hailey (on the front cover), Stories for the Bhoys starring Joe, Anthony, Gary and Kris, Mad About Celtic and Fitbaw Crazy, a Joe ledley profile, games, competitions and quizzes and a funny noticeboard. Three full pages of adverts (can't forget the PLC stuff).

Click to see the front cover of The Huddle.

KILMARNOCK SPL20 - 24/12/2011

Kilmarnock SPL20 24/12/2011 Celtic closed the gap at the top of the SPL to one point with a 2-1 win against Kilmarnock at Celtic Park today. Georgios Samaras scored both goals, one either side of half-time before Kilmarnock scored a consolation three minutes from time. Events at St Mirren Park also went Neil Lennon's way with Saints beating Rangers 2-1 and red cards for McCulloch and Goian. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

UDINESE CALCIO EUROPA LEAGUE - 15/12/2011

Celtic went out of the Europe with a 1-1 draw against Udinese in their final Europa League group match tonight. Gary Hooper put the Celts ahead on the half-hour mark but Di Natale equalised for the Italians just before half-time. Two programmes were available at the match, one of them in newspaper style. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

NOVEMBER 2011

ST MIRREN SPL16 - 26/11/2011

Gary Hooper moved to the top of the SPL scoring chart with three goals in today's 5-0 win over St Mirren at Celtic Park today. Celtic are now within four points of the league leaders who play at Kilmarnock tomorrow. Hooper's hat-trick was sandwiched between a Samaras opener and Dylan McGeouch's first goal for the A team. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

FC BARCELONA NEXTGEN SERIES - 24/11/2011

Celtic Under 19's were beaten 5-1 by Barcelona's Juvenil A team in the NextGen Series on Thursday night at the Mini Estadi in Barcelona. Match stats here.

Click this to watch the match on FC Barcelona's YouTube channel.

DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC SPL2 - 23/11/2011

Dunfermline SPL2, 23/11/2011 Celtic played Dunfermline at Celtic Park tonight in the match postponed from the second week of the season and gained three points with a 2-1 victory. Gary Hooper opened the scoring in just 6 minutes and James Forrest added the second seven minutes later. What followed was an all out assault on the Pars goal to improve their goal average but despite several very close efforts and a missed Ki penalty the next goal was scored by Dunfermline when Barrowman scored with a great finish from the edge of the box.

Click to see the programme, ticket, official teamsheet and match stats.

CELTIC DRAW THE BLUE TOON IN THE SCOTTISH CUP - 22/11/2011

Celtic have been drawn against Second Division side Peterhead FC in the 4th round of the Scottish Cup. The tie will be played at Balmoor Stadium in Peterhead over the weekend of Saturday 7 January 2012.

INVERNESS CT SPL15 - 19/11/2011

Anthony Stokes scored two second-half goals against Terry Butcher's cluggers to give Celtic another victory in the Highland capital today. That makes it five goals in three games for the Irishman, a total of 11 so far this season. Click for the programme, ticket and match stats.

MANCHESTER CITY NEXTGEN SERIES - 07/11/2011

Celtic's under 19's completed a double over their Manchester City counterparts with a 2-1 at Celtic Park on Monday night. First-half strikes from the recent big team debutantes Dylan McGeouch and Marcus Fraser were too much for the young Blues although they scored a consolation goal in the second-half through Rusnak. The result leaves Celtic three points behind second place rivals Marseille who they play next month. No programme issued. Click to see the match ticket and stats.

MOTHERWELL SPL14 - 06/11/2011

Celtic moved into second place in the SPL with a 2-1 win over Motherwell at Fir Park today. Anthony Stokes cancelled out an early Higdon goal for Motherwell and Gary Hooper scored the winner with 10 minutes to go. Youth starlet Dylan McGeouch made his debut as a substitute late in the match. Programme, ticket and match stats here.

MATCHDAY PROGRAMME SURVEY

Do you agree with us that the Celtic matchday programme has too many pages, is too expensive and should be made cheaper by reducing the number of pages of guff it contains? Many programme collectors do but what do you think. The guys at scotprem.com have launched a survey looking for feedback from fans on their club's matchday programmes. They have an article up on scotprem.com - www.scotprem.com and the survey can be accessed directly via this link - kwiksurveys.com.

STADE RENNAIS EUROPA LEAGUE - 03/11/2011

Celtic beat Stade Rennais 3-1 in tonight's Europa League match at Celtic Park. Rennes took the lead through a second minute header from Kader Mangane. Anthony Stokes drew the Celts level on the half hour mark and then fired Celtic into the lead on 43 minutes when he latched onto a Georgios Samaras header to fire home. Glen Loovens did not appear for the second half and was replaced at centre-half by 17-year-old Marcus Fraser making his competitive debut for the First team (Fraser had already made his debut last season in a friendly against Athletico Balbao). Celtic were well in command when substitute Gary Hooper rounded off an excellent performance by Celtic by scoring Celtic's third goal on 82 minutes. Come on Lennie! Programme, ticket and match stats here.

OCTOBER 2011

STADE RENNAIS EUROPA LEAGUE - 20/10/2011

A headed goal from Joe Ledley in tonight's Europa League match in France earned Celtic their first away point in Group I. Ledley's goal equalised a Cha Du Ri own goal scored in a passback mix up with Forster in goal. Rennes issued a free match programme for their first ever match with Celtic but it 'sold' out quickly and appears to have been difficult to find. Click this to see the programme, ticket and match stats.

SEPTEMBER 2011

UDINESE CALCIO EUROPA LEAGUE - 29/09/2011

Udinese scraped a 1-1 draw in the Europa League group match at Celtic Park tonight. A dubious penalty awarded two minutes from full time by Turkish referee Bülent Yildirim allowed the Italian Serie A team to cancel out Celtic's 1-0 lead. KI Sung Yeung put Celtic ahead from the spot in the 3rd minute and it looked like they would take all three points until Udinese defender Neuton dived in the box as if shot by a sniper in the crowd and the referee, who had looked indecisive all night, fell for it and awarded the Italians a penalty. Abdi converted the spot kick and Celtic had to settle for a single point. Programme, ticket and match stats here.

ROSS COUNTY SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES LEAGUE CUP - 21/09/2011

Celtic made it through to the quarter-final of the Scottish Communities League Cup by beating Ross County 2-0 at Victoria Park tonight. It was the first time ever that Celtic had played County in a competitive match in Dingwall and Gary Hooper wasted little time by scoring the first in the 14th minute with a simple tap in from a corner kick. Celtic's second was an o.g. scored by County's right-back Scott Boyd early in the second-half. One other point of note was young Paul George making his first-team debut in the hoops. Programme, ticket and match stats here.

THE CELT ISSUE 125 - 19/09/2011

The Celt Issue 125, September 2011 The Autumn issue of cult Celtic fanzine The Celt is out. Issue 125 pictures john Thompson on the front cover in recognition of the 80th anniversary of his death in September 1931. The Celtic goalie was fataly injured in an accidental collision with Sam English, a young Centre forward with Rangers. He stopped Rangers from scoring but suffered a depressed fracture of the skull doing it and never regained consciousness. According to the article in The Celt, Thomson's last words were to Sam English when he missed a header - "Hard lines, young fellow".

The subscription only fanzine is the oldest of Celtic fanzines still in publication and celebrates it's 28th year in print this season. Click this link to see the current issue or this for every issue since 1983.

RANGERS SPL8 - 18/09/2011

Celtic were beaten 4-2 at Ibrox today. The hoops were 2-1 up at half-time after Rangers scored first. Rangers equalised 10 minutes into the second-half and Celtic were unlucky at 2-2 when Glenn Loovens thudded a header from a Mulgrew corner off of McGregor's right post and back into play with no takers. Shortly after that Lafferty put them ahead and Charlie Mulgrew was sent off for a second yellow. The game was over as a contest when Rangers scored their fourth in injury time. Match stats, programme and ticket.

ATLÉTICO MADRID EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP 1 - 15/09/2011

Celtic lost their first Group match in the UEFA Europa League 2-0 at the Estadio Vincente Calderón in Madrid tonight. Falcao headed to score the first goal for the home side in just 3 minutes and Diego scored their second in 68. No programme for the game. Click here for the match stats.

NOT THE WEE GREEN BOOK - 10/09/2011

The Not The Wee Green Book for 2011/2012 was on sale at today's match. Click here to see a picture of it.

MOTHERWELL SPL7 - 10/09/2011

Celtic returned to SPL action today with a 4-0 win over Motherwell at Celtic Park. James Forest scored the first and last goal in a man of the match performance and Joe Ledley and Ki Sung-Yeung scored the others in an surprisingly easy victory.

Morrocan Badr El Kaddouri started at left-back and played well on his debut as did Mohamed Bangura who replaced Anthony Stokes in the 69th minute to play his first match in the famous green and white hoops.The win let Celtic leapfrog Motherwell in to second place in the league, one point behind Rangers who, if Ibrox is still open for business, are Celtic's opponents next Sunday.

Click here to see the programme, ticket and match stats.

AUGUST 2011

DUNDEE UNITED SPL4 - 13/08/2011

Celtic beat Dundee United 5-1 in the first home match of the season today. Programme, ticket and match stats here.

Two Celtic fanzines on sale at today's match - Alternative View Issue 121 and Not The View Issue 197.

MANCHESTER UTD LEGENDS JOHN KENNEDY TESTIMONAIL - 09/08/2011

Celtic Legends v Manchester Utd Legends 09/08/2011 An incredible crowd of over 54,000 fans turned up for John Kennedy's testimonial at Celtic Park tonight. The match was played in aid of Oxfam's East Africa Famine Appeal between Celtic and Manchester United Legends teams that included players from the recent past of both teams, celebrities from film, music, television and other sports. Manchester Utd had Roy Keane, Brian McClair and Gordon Strachan as their manager, the Celtic Legends included The King of Kings, Henrik Larsson, John Hartson, Chris Sutton, Alan Thompson, Johan Mjallby, Neil Lennon, Didier Agathe, Frank McAvennie, Packie Bonner in goal and Martin O'God as their manager.

It was a star-studded affair with the likes of Gerard Butler, Steve Collins, Nicky Byrne and Nigel Benn turning out to help raise funds for a very worthy cause, played in the friendliest atmosphere possible.

Manchester Utd scored first and second through Dwight York and Darren Campbell before Henrik Larsson stole the show with a hat-trick in a 5-2 win with Bobby Petta scoring the other two Celtic goals. Click here to see the programme, ticket and match stats. You can make a donation of £5 to the Oxfam appeal by texting 'DONATE' to 70442.

Buy the programme online for £3 plus postage at - www.celticfc.net.

JULY 2011

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS FRIENDLY - 27/07/2011

Celtic played a team of reserves and youth in a 2-0 friendly defeat by Wolves at Celtic Park tonight. Programme, ticket and match stats here.

THE OFFICIAL CELTIC GUIDE 2011-2012 THE WEE GREEN BOOK - 27/07/2012

The Official Celtic Guide or Wee Green Book is as old as the Club itself. But in 2001, in a decision equaled only when Lou Macari told Shay Given that he was too wee to make a goalkeeper, the Club decided to end its publication - not enough money in it for them. Now it's back, twice as big and twice as thick with 228 pages of Club information. For just £4 you get profiles of each team in the SPL, Celtic first-team player profiles, the appearances and goals for every Celtic player that has ever played for the first team, a 2010/11 season review and a celtic history timeline. As expected in a book of this kind it contains loads of stats like celtic's league positions season by season, our record against every league team and the games played in European competions, the Scottish Cup and League Cup and much more. If you want to get yourself a copy, you can buy it in any Celtic shop or online at www.celticfc.net.

Click here to see a picture of The Wee Green Book.

CELTIC LEGENDS BADGE SET - 26/07/2011

The Good Child Foundation offers placements to children of all abilities including pupils with Downs Syndrome at its school in Thailand. The school challenged traditional thoughts on inclusive education and is the only school offering placements to children of all ages and abilities including pupils with Downs Syndrome at its school in the Chanthaburi province of Thailand. Read more.

The Good Child Foundation is a charitable organisation that completely depends on donations from people who care. With your help they can continue to offer places to children of all abilities in the Chanthaburi province. Click on the link below if you would like to help support their work and get a set of Celtic legends badges into the bargain.

Set of 5 Celtic Legends - Jimmy Johnstone, James McGrory, Billy McNeil, Jock Stein and Henrik Larsson.

MORE THAN 90 MINUTES - 24/07/2011

The first issue of More Than 90 Minutes Celtic fanzine for 2011/12 was on sale at Easter Road today. Click here.

MARYHILL FC v CELTIC OLD BHOYS XI - TOMMY BURNS SKIN CANCER TRUST - 24/07/2011

An Celtic Old Boys XI played Maryhill FC at Lochburn Park, Maryhill in a charity friendly in aid of the Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust. The match ended in a 1-1 draw with the Celtic Old Bhoys winning a penalty shoot-out 5-2. Partick Thistle manager Jackie McNamara organised and played in the Celtic Old Bhoys team that included Simon Donnely, Darren Jackson, Tom Boyd, Bobby Petta, Brian McLaughlin, Tosh McKinlay and others from Tommy's 90's team. Maryhill issued a 16 page programme with an insert tribute to Tommy Burns - 16 DEC 1956 - 15 MAY 2008 RIP.

Click here to see the match programme.

HIBERNIAN SPL1 - 24/07/2011

Celtic got their league campaign off to a winning start with a 2-0 victory against Hibernian at Easter Road yesterday. Anthony stokes scored the first goal of the season after 14 minutes and Ki Sung-Yeung scored early in the second-half to send the Celtic fans home happy. Programme, ticket and match stats.

CARDIFF CITY FRIENDLY - 20/07/2011

Celtic beat Cardiff City 1-0 in tonight's friendly in the Cardiff City stadium. The single goal was scored by Anthony Stokes heading past ex-Celt David Marshall from a pin-point cross by Emillio Izzaguire in the first-half. Croatian internationalist goalkeeper, Stipe Pletikosa, made his celtic debut playing as a trialist and new signing Victor Manyama came on in the 75th minute to make his first appearance since signing from Germinal Beerschot Antwerp. Programme and match stats.

ALFREDO DI STEFANO TESTIMONIAL - 07/06/1967

Collectors of Celtic programmes will be able to rhyme off a list of matches where, disappointingly, no programme was issued. This leaves a gap in any collection that the serious collector craves to fill. Two of the programmes near the top of anyones list would be the 1970 European Cup Final v Feyenoord and the Alfredo Di Stefano testimonial that Celtic played in as European Champions against Real Madrid in 1967.

Recently, a collector decided to do something about these missing issues while, at the same time, making some money for charity and himself when he created an excellent limited edition issue for the 1970 European Cup final. After the success of that one he has now created a limited edition (100) programme for the Di Stefano testimonial and is selling them on ebay. The high-quality programme has 16 pages and comes with a free £10.00 bet with McBooke, a copy of the original match ticket and an insert with details of the game itself. For each copy sold, 15% of the sale price will be given to the Williams Syndrome charity.

Click here to see the programme for sale on ebay. You can also make an offer by emailing John Paul on jpaird@sky.com.

PARTICK THISTLE FRIENDLY - 16/07/2011

A Celtic XI were beaten 2-1 in a friendly against Partick Thistle at Firhill on Saturday. The Celtic team was made up of talented youngsters, first-team wanabees in Jos Hooiveld, Josh Thompson and Morten Rasmussen and Emilio Izaguirre returning from injury. Match programme, ticket and stats here.

THE CELTIC VIEW ISSUE 1 - 13/07/2011

The first Celtic View of the new season was out today with Joe Ledley pictured on the front cover. The official club magazine is now in its 47th year of publication and is the oldest magazine of its kind in the Britain. The price remains the same as last season at £2.25 and contains all the news about what is happening in the Celtic World including a tribute to Celtic Legend Willie Fernie who sadly passed away last week at the age of 82. Willie is best remembered for scoring in the historic 7-1 defeat of 666FC in the 1957 Scottish League Cup final but he also made 317 appearances in the hoops, scoring 74 times. Click here to see the Celtic View Issue 1.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2011

Australian Tour Programme A programme was issued for each of Celtic's three matches on their tour of Australia. The first match with Central Coast Mariners produced a 1-0 defeat in the ANZ Stadium with new signings Kevin Wilson and Adam Matthews making their debut in the Hoops. Onto Perth and Gary Hooper and Charlie Mulgrew both scored to give Celtic a 2-0 victory against Perth Glory. In the final match Scott Brown scored a fine goal against Melbourne Victory to make it two victories and one defeat. Click on the following links to see the programme and match stats for each game - Central Coast Mariners | Perth Glory | Melbourne Victory.

Buy the tour programmes at HaymarketMedia.com.

TOKYO CSC TSUNAMI APPEAL - 01/06/2011

The Tokyo CSC has just launched a charity auction of Celtic memorabilia aimed at raising funds for the Japan disaster recovery effort. Although the media attention may have moved on, with some 25,000 dead or missing and 115,000 homeless, the need for help has never been greater. Every dollar raised from the auction will go to help the All Hands Volunteers Project Tohoku, which is putting volunteers directly into the devastated tsunami-hit areas.

Please support this worthy cause by clicking the link to the auction below -

Tokyo CSC Tsunami Victims Auction.