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Overrated or underrated: Scott Allan (Celtic)

The first edition of Overrated or Underrated in the 2015/16 campaign had to be about the man everyone’s still talking about.

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Show: I drove all night

Trio of Gary Cocker, Shaughan McGuigan and Craig Cairns start things off with a recap of Celtic’s high-octane Champions League play-off win over Malmo. From there the lads have a look back at the Petrofac Cup fixtures of midweek. Are Dunfermline truly dominant? Does St Mirren’s win kick-start their season? And what’s the different between ‘giving fringe players a […]

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Celtic 3 Malmo 2: Hoops superior side but haunted by ex-player

Celtic were excellent but sloppy play allowed an unlikely hero grab a brace for Malmo, Joel Sked analyses the five goal thriller.You are out with the LADS. Out on the town drinking PINTS and that, having a right good ol’ knees-up. You’ve recently broke up with your girlfriend. But you’re not thinking about her. You’re […]

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Transfer analysis: Scott Allan to Celtic

Now that the dust has settled, Craig Fowler looks at the potential pros and cons of Scott Allan’s move to Celtic. Where it could go right It’s too much of a stretch to suggest Celtic have bought themselves a bench-warmer or, even worse, have used the player as a tool in a game of one-upsmanship over […]

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Scott Allan during his unveiling at Celtic Park

Winners & Losers

Craig Fowler is back with our weekly feature Winners & Losers. The transfer saga of the summer dominates what follows. First of all, I would like to make everyone aware that this week’s Winners and Losers (the first of the current campaign) is shorter than was originally intended. This was because after I had written […]

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Show: Only in Scotland

Monday’s podcast sees Craig Fowler, Craig Cairns and Joel Sked discuss the Scott Allan transfer before recapping the Scottish Premiership weekend. This includes concern about Celtic’s lack of concentration, praise for the in-game management of Hearts, and yet more negativity surrounding Dundee United. There’s also a look at Rangers’ victory at Alloa, and a quick […]

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Lacking tact: The problem with John Collins’ comments

Jim Douglas provides some Aberdeen perspective on the fall-out from John Collins’ disparaging remarks about the rest of Scottish football. I must confess to quite liking John Collins. In an era when very few Scottish players made it abroad, he not only did well at Monaco, but seemed to wholeheartedly embrace the lifestyle. Gary Smith […]

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Season 2014/15 player ratings: Celtic

For a season which started out shambolically, and threatened to descend into abject mediocrity before Christmas, Celtic have finished sitting fairly pretty. An obligatory league title was accompanied by a league cup, and somewhat miraculously, European football which stretched beyond the New Year. Ronny Deila’s Celtic side lurched out of the Champions League qualifiers twice […]

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Six great moments from the weekend

Joel Sked There was a certain predictability about it. James Forrest raced away from Tam Scoobie, one-v-one with Alan Mannus, he sped past Mannus leaving him helpless and then . . . well you didn’t even need to watch what happened next. You knew. You. Just. Knew. Derek Rae gets more animated than usual, echoing […]

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Sliding doors

May 14, 2015

Thursday’s podcast welcomes back Marc McArdle for the second place side in our Memorable Teams series: Martin O’Neill’s Celtic. Remember Henrik Larsson entering his prime, the incredible run to the UEFA Cup Final (amid wider European underachievement), and the behemoths otherwise known as the Hoops back three. Prior to that there’s a discussion about the […]

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