The Celtic Underground
351 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThe Celticunderground podcast is the world's longest running football fan podcast.
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Just a few Celtic fans talking about Celtic, the greatest football team in the world.
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Pt2 - Working at Celtic during the McCann revolution
July 04, 2024 22:55 - 56 minutes - 39 MBIf you’ve not already done so, please listen to Part 1 of this two part interview with Andrew H Smith on what it was really like being inside Celtic before, during and after the McCann revoltion. As he says - Fergus was a man on a mission and a man with a singular vision on how he wanted Celtic to be as a club and Andre was there, every day, documenting the process. Enjoy - This is exclusive to paid subscribers for 1 month. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other...
The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought
July 01, 2024 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBThe Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought Another tale from the Celtic Wiki What is it about Jimmy McGrory that makes him one of, if not the, greatest ever Celts? He’s our all time leading scorer with 522 goals in 501 games and holds the record for the most goals in a season, with 62 goals from 46 games. Although he was only five feet and six inches tall, he was renowned for his prowess and ability for headers. His trademark was an almost horizontal bullet header, which he performed and scored wi...
The Winner Takes It All - Distorted!
June 26, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBWe debated long and hard as to whether to publish this podcast because no matter waht we did, we couldn’t resolve the sound distortion issues - especially with Eddie’s mic. Ultimately we decided - what the heck. The worst of it appears to be at the beginning and the end. So this is a free podcast from Celtic Underground. It can be picked up wherever you get your podcasts as well as on Thecelticunderground.substack.com. There’s loads of paid and free content coming over the next few mont...
French Farce
June 24, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes - 7.06 MBFrench Farce Another tale from the Celtic Wiki The Anglo-Franco-Scottish Friendship Cup was a short-lived Inter-League football competition organised by the French Football Federation that would see teams from the English Football League and the Scottish League compete against teams from the French League. The original idea was to have four teams from Scotland and four teams from England competing together as one nation competing against eight teams from France. Due to the objection by th...
The Rebels Have Won
June 17, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.37 MBThe Rebels have won 4th March 1994 and Fergus McCann and Brian Dempsey step out into a dark and rainy Glasgow night to make the famous declaration - The game is over, the rebels have won. Jubilation abound and tonight, as we publish this tale from The Celtic Wiki, we remember one of the unsung heroes of that takeover battle - John Keane who sdaly passed away today - 16th June 2024. John was the honourary Chairman of Celtic and he got that role because, with no ownership and no certainty t...
Working at Celtic During McCann Revolution
May 30, 2024 21:41 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBWorking at Celtic During the McCann Revolution Fergus McCann came into Celtic Park and changed everything. He changed the board and replaced family inheritance with business acumen. He changed the ground from seats on Terracing to a 60,000 seated stadium. He built all the foundations that have now established Celtic as THE premier club in Scotland. He is one of the greatest Celts in history. The transformation in Celtic pre and post March 1994 was incredible and one of the fe...
Cup Final Preview Audio
May 23, 2024 20:03 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIn the past week we've had the league secured at Rugby Park, a title party at Celtic Park rounded all off with the Cup Final at Hampden on the iconic date of 25th May. Who else could I ask to discuss this than full-kit Jow Hart love-in man Remy McSwain. Remy and I review everything and jump all over the place because an easy verbal ramble through the past 10 days became a rushed preview and review because the IT set up/wifi crashed. The audio is good because the crap bits are editted ...
Charity begins at home
May 22, 2024 07:52 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBFollowing securing the league, Andrew Smith met with Celtic FC Foundation CEO Tony Hamilton to ask about the work of the Foundation and discuss the forthcoming charity game against the Dortmund Legends. Andrew asks searching questions such as - aren't all chairtie just a tax on the poor? But Tony robustly defends the work of the Foundation and the input of the club who are by far the biggest contributors to The Foundation. To get tickets for the game, which takes place after the cup f...
Winners...again.again
May 12, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBWinners…again This Saturday saw the final Glasgow Derby of the league campaign and for listeners to last week’s podcast the result will have come as no surprise. Despite the comments of pundits, this is a game where form does not go out of the window. It is a game that the form team (or more appropriately the better team) nearly always win. Celtic are the better team. Celtic won. Whilst the league is not mathematically secured, we’re almost there being 6 points clear wit...
Fun Bhoys Three
May 09, 2024 22:10 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBFun Bhoys Three We have the final Glasgow Derby of season 2023/24 coming up this weekend and so we have organised some experienced heads to discuss the prospects with @Paul1888 joining Andrew & Harry to discuss the game. We roll out the metaphors and the cliches to preview the game in the context of our performance on last weekend when Brendan finally had his full first choice 16 to field. As Andrew H says - use your testicular metaphor of choice when previewing the game an...
Smith and Brady Dundee review and Hearts preview
May 01, 2024 20:49 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBSmith and Brady - Dundee review and Hearts preview This week Andrew H Smith joins Harry to review the performance and result at Dens Park. The chat takes a meandering turn as the bhoys discuss the events at Dens almost 34 years ago to the day when Celtic really blew the 1979/80 season by losing 5-1 to Dundee during the title run in. Andrew was there and experienced the vitriol. When they get on to the 21st Century tie they get on to discuss how brilliant James Forrest is and an...
Smith and Brady The Scottish Cup Semi Final
April 27, 2024 20:40 - 1 hour - 43 MBSmith & Brady - The Scottish Cup Semi Final Following the dramtic 3-3 draw and subsequent penalty shoot-out victory, Harry Brady and Andrew H Smith review the cup semi and discuss all of the action. There’s a review of the defensive short-comings and like every discussion by Celtic fans of a certain age, 20+ year old Hampden games are shoehorned in. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ...
Whats Going On
February 24, 2024 11:58 - 1 hour - 102 MBWhat’s Going On? There’s hasn’t been a podcast in ages and then, in usual style, two come along at once. If you’ve not listened, then get your ears around St Anthony’s Recollections podcast out earlier in the week. It was a short sharp pod all about Paul McStay. For the longer form podcast (and it’s very long) we have Remy, Lawrence & me asking (and attempting to answer) the simple question - what’s going on? The answer seems to be Dermot with everything flowing from that...
Recollections - Paul McStay
February 22, 2024 23:37 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBRecollections - Paul McStay Paul McStay was born on 22nd October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Grand-nephew of former Celtic team captain and manager Jimmy McStay, playing for Celtic was in the family blood. A hotly tipped youth prospect Paul McStay was a member of Celtic Boys Club who burst onto the football scene in remarkable style when he hit two goals and was man of the match as Scotland schoolboys defeated their English counterparts at Wembley in front of a live TV audience in...
Are we at the end of the road
November 20, 2023 21:24 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBAre we at the end of the road The Green Brigade - ostensibly a small group of fanatical “ultra” supporters below the age of 30 so who better to discuss their behaviours than a group of aging middle aged fans…? Hullbhoy, Lawrence, Eddie & I appreciate that none of us share the likely demographic of the supporters group that we discuss, but Celtic is a broad church with fans from 1-100 and all within that spectrum are entitled to their views. Online is principally in one place on ...
Born to lead the green white
September 03, 2023 21:33 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBBorn to lead the green & white Any goal for Glasgow City, another victory for the cause, another reason to giving another cheer just for the bhoys. All week I have heard and read ill-informed nonsense about Celtic getting a heavy defeat and responded the same way - have you seen them? We the best manager in Scotland and one of the best in Britain. He’ll spend all week getting the team right…and he did. A marvellous preformance by Celtic. Bossed the first half and control...
Sense and sensibility
August 17, 2023 21:37 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBSense and sensibility Podcast No1 of the new season had 2 of us, podcast No2 had 3 of us and this week, podcast No3 we’ve got 4 (four) of us on it! Whatever next…? Following the victory over Aberdeen, we’ve got Eddie, Saint Anthony and Paul T on to discuss the game, where the club are at, signing gossip and the forthcoming game against Killie in the cup. This weeks’ podcast is not as long as last week’s marathon but it’s still an hour of Celtic chat by middle aged Celtic fans -...
The By The Celtic Underground Edition
August 10, 2023 23:13 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBJust like buses…you wait months for a podcast and then two come along in a week and what a podcast we have for you. I’ve no idea if it’s any good but it’s long, my goodness it’s long. Nearly two hours of Celtic chat (although, it could be argued that it’s 2 hours of sport chat with around 45 mins of Celtic chat but I’ll let you be the judge of that). Anyway, I am joined by Lawrence Donegan and Eddie Pearson to discuss all things Celtic, Scottish Sport, male grooming products, VPNs, y...
But whos the left back...?
August 08, 2023 22:55 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBBut who’s the left back…? Nice to see you to see you…nice! It’s good to be back and especially when we’re back to talk about the new seaso, with a new manager, new signings, new signing gossip and all for our 18th season of podcasting. This week it’s the old team of Eddie and Harry who ramble and rumble over everything from fans objecting to people moving on, fans on message boards taking transfer rumoutrs too seriously, what those transfer rumours may be and our predictions for...
Ange Train keeps on rolling
May 08, 2023 20:41 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBAnge train keeps on rolling Sunday saw the coronation of Celtic as back to back champions in Scotland. It was the 11th title out of the last 12 and the 11th of 11 titles were fans have been in attendance. All in all a remarkable period of domination by Scotland’s most succesfull living club. The game itself was a 2-0 triumph with Hearts trying hard for 20 mins or so before normal service was resumed. A (valid) red card helped but no doubt Celtic would have gone on to win as th...
Double Denim edition
April 30, 2023 23:04 - 2 hours - 112 MBDouble Denim Edition First up an apology. After every podcast this season we have promised the the paucity of podcasting provision from CU will ceases and a plethora of podcasts will follow. If you’re being pedantic you could say that promise after every pod has been a pile of pish - and you’d be right. So sorry. With that out of the way I can talk about this week’s podcast -it’s a mammoth 2 hour extravoganza that starts by talking about the cup wemi and then just gets into a ...
I should be so lucky
March 02, 2023 22:23 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBI should be so lucky Once again the lucky bhoys triumphed and Ange won his 3rd out of 4 domestic trophies he has competed for and B******t Bingo Beale went home with his tail between his legs. Celtic won the league cup on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Rangers in a game that was pretty comfortable throughout and that Celtic could, in the end, have won by 3 or 4. St Anthony was at the game with Saint Jnr and they were larging it up with the young team in the Celtic End and so I t...
The Celtic Da Podcast returns - 15012023 22.37
January 15, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBThe Celtic Da Podcast returns You can have all your whipper snapper podcasts with your Xthis and that but there is only one podcast that can continually hark back to the 90s and earlier and it’s this one - the world’s longest running football fans podcast. We’re now in our 18th season (19th year) and although we may have taken a break, you can be sure that we will always have something old and hackneyed to say about the modern game and this episode is no different. We discu...
Were in the mix
September 14, 2022 22:41 - 1 hour - 57 MBWe’re in the mix Tonight, before recording this podcast, I was in a whatsapp debate about how to describe the draw with Shaktar. I described it as brilliant, others said disappointing. Personally I couldn’t see how you could describe an away UCL prefromance wehere we should and could have won by 2-4 goals as disappointing. Yes, there’s disappointment that we didn’t win but surely it’s absolutely brilliant that we were that good that we feel disappointed about only drawing away?...
The Celtic Steamroller
September 05, 2022 12:38 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBThe Celtic Steamroller Saturday 3rd September Celtic played Rangers. Saturday 3rd September Celtic toyed with Rangers. We played them off the park in the first half and coasted the second. You got the impression that if Ange had told the team at half-time that they needed to score another 4, we could have. We start the podcast with a quick exert from the Heart & Hand Podcast that someone sent us previewing the game, we then move on to a review of the game before a preview of ...
Tifo or Tifno...?
August 03, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBTifo or Tifno…? Sometimes the title doesn't really give an insight into the real content of the podcast but I've got to write something and I quite liked this so, there you go. Anyway, this week the middle aged podcast by middle aged fans for EVERYONE returns (have we mentioned we are the world’s longest running football fans podcast?). Anyway, back to the point…we are enjoying lige under Ange and so we are enjoying life in general. Lawrence is on his usually summer sabbatical to the...
The Happiness Edition
July 27, 2022 22:54 - 1 hour - 65 MBWhen we started this podcast (did I mention it’s the world’s longest running football fans podcast) we never thought it would last 17 seasons. It’s ebbed and flowed and the young kids have arrived with their xg, xa, xt, abc, easy as 1,2,3 but we’ll always be here - the middle aged podcast for the middle aged fan who loves the hoops and gets mildly irritated. And so we are back for that record breaking 17th season (every season is record breaking because I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it ...
One Win From The Title
May 01, 2022 21:53 - 1 hour - 67 MBCeltic today secured a draw against Rangers to put us just one win from the title. It's the 4th time in a row we have secured either a draw or win against the team from the South Side of the city. It's a game that Celtic had the chances to put to bed before the Rangers equaliser. We didn't and a few players looked exhausted towards the end but we held on, secured the draw and now only a dire change of form will prevent Ange picking up another trophy and his first Scottish title at the f...
Good to be back
April 14, 2022 22:05 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBThe podcast is back (again) after a midseason break Now where were we....ah that's right, we're on track for a treble! Sorry it's been so long but you know how it is, life, work, IT issues - they all get in the way of creating the latest episode of the world's longest running football fans podcast. Anyway, the IT issues have been resolved (like most I'm not sure about volume of hours in work) but we're ready to go. This should have been out a week earlier but the aforementioned IT ...
Welcome Home
September 10, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 76 MBWelcome Home The podcast is back for another episode and we have some old and older voices for you in the names of Lawrence and Eddie. Yes, Lawrence is on and fresh from his recently return on a Sunday night on Twitter Spaces, we are joined by Eddie Pearson. The boys go on to discuss Ange-ball, whether the board should get praise or not for the transfer window. Also following the departure of French Eddie we discuss the top 3 post Larsson strikers. We also take 5 mins to discu...
Ange-ball Rolls On
August 26, 2021 22:29 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBAnge-ball Rolls On Celtic have tonight come through what was at times a very nervy evening (a very self-inflicted one) to progress to the group stages of the Europa League and they can now prepare for Sunday. I was unsure about organising a post game podcast. I always recall Mark Cooper bemoaning that everytime I organised one with hime we lost. But I am not a believer in “what’s for you won’t go past you” or the concept of “tempting fate” so I organised one. We lost but we’re...
The Game Ep 7 Barca 125 - 21082021 00
August 20, 2021 23:50 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThe Game Episode 7 - Barca 125 November 7th 2012. The night before a Mass was held in St Mary’s to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the forming of Celtic Football Club and that week illustrated that Big Billy’s words about there being a fairytale about this club were never more true. We has invited the board of Barca to share in our commemoration mass and the following night they visited the Cathedral of noise that was Celtic Park as 60,000 fans and 13 players put on a show th...
Celtic and our Irish heritage
August 05, 2021 08:39 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBCeltic and our Irish heritage This week St Anthony takes control of the podcast to discuss Celtic and it’s Irish heritage. Saint is joined by Sean McDonagh who lecture politics and Scots/Irish history at OU. There cannot be a Celtic fan out there who does not know some basics of the coubs formation and heritage however it is always good to get the details from an expert in the field and Sean provides that in spades here. Enjoy…. This is a public episode. If you’d like t...
The Game Episode 6 - Udinese draw and F UEFA
August 01, 2021 10:03 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBThe Game Episode 6 - Udinese draw and F’ UEFA The current situation at Celtic could be better and so our guest wanted to pick a game from happier times. It’s the winter of 2011 and the team has had a dramatic turnaround since being 3 nil down at Rugby Park and Neil Lennon looked like being on the way out. They pulled things back in the 2nd half of that game and started to really motor. At the same time RFC where spiralling to their death and we were all having a right laugh on this ...
Ange and the starman Podcast Xtra
July 30, 2021 19:56 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBPodcast Xtra Ange & the starman On Saturday31st July Celtic commence the new league season away at Tynecastle. The current state of the first team squad has some fans concerned but we have the new Swede and an update on the new Japanese striker in these pre-game interviews from Ange Postecoglou and Carl Starfelt. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com/su...
Season 16 - Lets go round again
July 24, 2021 11:45 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBSeason 16 - Let’s go round again Baby we’re back! Welcome to the 16th season of the world’s longets running football fans podcast. To celebrate our new season we will have NO new features NO new graphics NO new music NO new opinions The podcast will be just as you like - same old usual rubbish but it’s this consistency that has kept our listener numbers the same all these years. We really appreciate everyone who takes the time to listen or rate us on iTunes. ...
Welcome Ange and Dom
June 25, 2021 18:51 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBWelcome Ange & Dom Today was the official unveiling of Ange Postecoglou as Celtic manager and of Dom McKay as Celtic CEO. Both spoke very well. Talk is cheap as the negative people say however I was very pleased with what I heard today. No-one comes into a new job and criticises the people or the past but it’s clear, reading between the lines, that Dom wants to address the stagnation in our business model over the past 10 years and Ange will have his own people in coaching role...
A View From Down Under
June 12, 2021 10:59 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThe View from Down Under Ange Postecoglou is the new manager of Celtic. Fans are filled with trepidation about a manager with no European track record. The pessemists are trotting out the usual “he’s sh!te3” stuff whilst the optimists are noting the exceptional level of positivity coming out of Australia for this guy. Based upon this mixed view, I called up our friend Mike Mehall-Wood (now based down in Aus) and sought his view. Enjoy… This is a public episode. If you’d ...
Ange Postecoglou First Interview
June 10, 2021 10:31 - 16 minutes - 15 MBAnge Postecoglou First Interview Celtic have today appointed Ange Postecoglou as the new manager of the club and we have the audio from his first interview. Interstingly in the chat that follows with Dom McKay, he once again mentions modernisation. It seems to be his theme and listeners to the last podcast will know we heartily agree. Dominic McKay: Ange is an outstanding leader and an outstanding manager Dominic McKay is delighted that Celtic have appointed an experienc...
An analogue club in a digital age?
June 06, 2021 17:47 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBAn analogue club in a digital age This week we’re back to talk about The Celtic! We will be having more of The Game series but we thought we’d take a break from that to discuss the managerial situation at the club. First we’ve had the rejection by Eddie Howe and then the appointment of Ange (or at least the likely appointment of Ange as nothing has happened yet…). This week we get Saint Anthony, Hullbhoy and Sean together to discuss the situation at the club. Enjoy… This ...
The Game Ep 5 - Tirollercoaster
May 09, 2021 11:27 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBThe Game Ep5 - Tirollercoaster This game had everything - a new team under a new manager with a new striker scoring an og in a 9 goal thriller where Celtic were out with just 6 minutes to go. It had a full house and so everyone who was a Tim at the time could say “I was there” but for some reason it’s never one of those games everyone talks about with reverence…and it should be. Celtic 6 Tirol Innsbruk 3. What a night. The Celtic Wiki describes it as follows: An inc...
The Game Ep4 - Boavista Away 2003
April 22, 2021 20:49 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThe Game Ep4 - Boavista Away 2003 For those of us lucky enough to remember Seville it was all made possible by this night - a victory away at Boavista. A crap game, a sclaffed shot and a penalty claim….but we were through. Remy of ByTheMinCeltic fame joins Antony and I to share his recollections of The Game. This is how The Celtic Wiki describes it… With so much at stake, the opening exchanges were tentative, but Celtic settled first and created the game's first dece...
The Game Ep3 - Partizan Belgrade
March 29, 2021 22:28 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBThe Game Ep3 - Partizan Belgrade To this day, this is one of the most incredible games I have ever attended. Yes I’ve been at the Barca game, the Invincibles Cup Final Game, victories and defeats at Ibrox but for utterly incredible drama few can match this game - Celtic 5, Partizan Belgrade 4. A future Dundee Utd Manager, the dad of a future Celtic striker and a guy wearing trackie bottoms - this game had it all (all except a Celtic victory). Antony and I are joined by Law...
The Game Ep2 - Palm Sunday
March 23, 2021 22:57 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBThe Game Ep2 - Palm Sunday This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Palm Sunday gubbing of Rangers, a game that holds special memories for our guest Kevin Schofield as it was his first Glasgow Derby. It was dark times for the club and these victories were smal glimpses of light. We had beaten Rangers the week before for what became known as the ST Patrick’s Day Massacre. That was a game that saw Rangers receive 3 red cards and so for this match, Not The View gave out red car...
The Game Ep 1 - Shame Game
March 15, 2021 20:41 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThe Game Episode 1 - Shame Game 10 years ago this month was The Shame Game. A silly title for a game that saw no shame apart from the terrible behaviour of the soon to be defunct Rangers players and assistant manager. But with its notoriety and coming to the fore we thought we’d kick off the new series with a review of that game. Here’s how the Celtic Wiki describes it: As one-side a match against the Huns you'll ever see. Celtic were on top throughout this game, and des...
Podcast Xtra David Turnbull John Kennedy
March 05, 2021 20:57 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBPodcast Xtra - John Kennedy & David Turnbull Celtic are looking to engage better with the fan media and this was the first step in 2021 of that new engagement with a specially organised fan media press conference. To be fair to the club, bringing this together is slightly more complicated than it seems. As I’ve joked recently, there are now a plethora of podcasts and how do the club make sure everyone gets access, how do they balance this with those fans who do excellent written work...
Pieces of Eight
March 02, 2021 22:11 - 2 hours - 110 MBPieces of Eight Yes, it’s the pirate podcast (you’ll understand when you listen) and we are reviewing the tenure of Neil Lennon as Celtic manager. We look at his departure last time, his re-appointment and assess whether this was some catastrophic turn of unlucky events for Neil or the inevitable outcome of appointing someone not qualified for the job and I would suggest that the panel have a range of opinions along that spectrum. A change is gonna come at Celtic and we suspect ...
Celts on the rocks
February 23, 2021 23:25 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBCelts on The Rocks This week I am joined by Lachie Mor and Duncan Smillie of Glasgow Rocks to discuss the current situation at Celtic. We review the inept Ross County performance and then go on to discuss the nature of the vitriol against senior people at the club (manager CEO) and question if that is the “Celtic Way” - can we not disagree with the board’s decision on Lennon without being so disagreeable? Duncan has a go at me for the agressive language of the Ferencvaros podcas...
Marketing Celtic
February 09, 2021 00:26 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBMarketing Celtic I know, I know, all we want is a succesful team on the pitch and you have no time for all this marketing and “brand” chat that revolves around modern football and if that’s the sum total of your thoughts on marketing a football club then this podcast is not for you. If, however, you see maximising income as the way of getting the best players in the pitch then hopefully you will find this of interest. I look at our club as failing to communicate well with the su...
Peter A CEO of 2 Halves
February 01, 2021 19:53 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBAnd so after 17 years in the job Peter is leaving. Peter Lawwell was first employed by Celtic as the club's Financial Controller from 1990 to 1991 under then Chief Executive Terry Cassidy. In September 2003, he returned to Celtic succeeding Ian McLeod as Chief Executive. The job title was changed for Lawwell to Executive Director, Head of Operations as many of the previous Chief Executives had performed poorly in that role. Arsenal were interested in appointing Lawwell as their chief...