In football, the world changes on goals. Not skill, general play, or doing enough to deserve the win. When you are trailing in title chance, running out of games and level in the last 10 minutes of a match you really need to win, a goal changes the world.
Celtic should have been out of sight after a dominant first half, however, we have seen this story too many times this season for anyone to think the same would follow after the break. In the early moments of the second period, Tomas Cvancara missed the second chance when clean through on the Dundee goalkeeper, and that seemed to spark the home side into action.
Dundee are not a good team, but they did what they needed to do to get back into the game – get possession inside the Celtic box. Colby Donovan was the unfortunate defender whose arm met a shot. If Cvancara’s earlier miss motivated Dundee, the equaliser gave them a further shot of adrenaline. Celtic were briefly on the rack.
Change came in the unexpected form of Luke McCowan. With Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain flagging, Luke was preferred to Reo Hatate. I am pretty sure this was about energy. Luke can get around the midfield better than Reo and that quality was judged most required by Martin O’Neill.
Within moments of that early second half miss, Martin readied Kelechi Iheanacho. The Nigerian striker came on immediately after the Dundee equaliser and was able to hold the ball, and bring others into play. These two changes pinned Dundee back, who were not an attacking threat again until a couple of free kicks in the dying moments of the game.
It was a third substitution, Marcelo Saracchi for Kieran Tierney, that completed the win. The Uruguayan made everything look simple – most notably, getting the ball past the first defender and into the box in a manner that an attacker had a chance to get on the end of it.
When Kelechi controlled Marcelo’s cross and spun to shoot I didn’t think he had space at the near post, but this guy has banked tens of millions already in his career for a reason. You feel if we could get 90 or even 60 minutes out of him every week, odds on Celtic winning would shorten.
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An Tearmann
Aye indeed.
i ponder about supposed home advantage in the run in. not the fortress it was.
Stivs
We shall win our last 6 games Stevie.
those who dont want celic minded persons posting things about our irish republican heritage.
well tough.
i might post all the founders activities around these things.
and maybe how many were associated with saint als.
just to annoy some persons.
Keep The Faith
To the poster who commented yesterday on my positivity observation (apologies, can’t recall who)
Obviously the players don’t read comments on here.
But fans and bloggers do.
And if wider humanity recycled physical materials as effectively as the new and old media recycle non-news in this so called “information age”?
Carbon emissions would drop 99%.
Despite us being contenders for a double (yes, it is amazing) there is a general pall around Celtic …
… which both our fans and our enemies will feed off.
Every ounce of positive emotional energy
i live in hope johnny bhoy .
as a wee aside.
i enjoy when the english use easter weekend for fixtures.
here we are having crammed all those games into winter and now in spring our games end up weeks apart
bonkers.
Great win yesterday
Astley got Rick rolled by Iheanacho and the ref told Astley at the red card ‘you know the rules and so do I’
Astley had a bad day but probably God punishing him for never giving anything up for Lent.
3-0 next week, 2-0 the week after
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Just wondered what happened to Kyogo at Birmingham- no trace on the matchday squad for a number of weeks – might be injured. Iwata dropped to the bench – Birmingham dropping like a stone.
Coneybhoy
That’s quite dreadful M. 😂
Gene on 6th April 2026 7:44 pm
Just wondered what happened to Kyogo at Birmingham- no trace on the matchday squad for a number of weeks – might be injured. Iwata dropped to the bench – Birmingham dropping like a stone.
MY son says out for season damaged his shoulder. I do not know how he never gets a full game.
Well I’m standing next to a hun and I chop him down with the edge of my hand.
Jimi Hendrix 1968.
https://youtu.be/IZBlqcbpmxY?si=yQsPFquhewRH7igk
Fav U
Thanks – he was mostly a bench warmer for them
An Tearmann on 6th April 2026 7:11 pm
“Feeding children of irish catholic immigrants in the land of the reformation is a political act.”
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This is what Sturgeon and Salmond ‘rushed’ down to London to sign Scottish people up to perpetual ‘Protestant Supremacy’ when the Queen died, and only the leader of the Workers Party of Britain has addressed this sneaky under the table bigoted colonialism!
“Protestant Supremacy and Celtic Park”
https://youtu.be/eLQolvBmUgM?si=S2Bl-Z6k0xT2OzqZ
Sad are the homes of the deliberately blind….
Next game against St Mirren. These lads are looking to preseve their livelihoods. No easy task for the Celtic.
TURKEYBHOY on 6TH APRIL 2026 2:29 PM
CCB
Cvancara is very good with his touches….
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One of my favourite things about the Celtic support is the humour….
An Tearmann on 6th April 2026 7:11 pm
Tontine Tim on 6th April 2026 5:02 pm
Celtic FC’S POLITICAL History: The Undeniable Facts by Liam Kelly
*I take it that isnae the cu(rre)nt sevco back up that wrote this WTF.
No Tontine,no relation at all and currently researching Celtic players in ww2.Based in s.e of england but writes a bit on Celtic.ok guy.
*Actually that was tongue in cheek fae me as I doubt liam patrick kelly brother of sean and shay of livi and dumbarton respectively would ever be allowed tae say anything good about us
Kev racist
You workers collective operate outside “the firmament”They operate flat earth policies,vaccinating their tiny brains freely while gorging on racist vermin from ireland,the less than 2%.
Did Tony Blair who you voted for do anything to do away protestant succession? na him and Galloway done Zero,zilch nada to do away with.
And if you think George would refuse to get his tongue in the kings arse his 7 time addiction to bending his knee and kissing the kings ring, documents your lack of knowledge.
What would the grifter trash know about Celtic,he grifted towards manure
SlurpSlurpkingy
From. JOBO
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025-26*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #51 DUNDEE 1 CELTIC 2 (YANG, IHEANACHO)*
Good evening, friends.
A hard fought for win with long periods that weren’t the best to watch. But a very valuable 3 points as we approach the home straight.
Celtic have now played 51 games, and have won 27, drawn 11 and lost 13. We have scored 89 goals and conceded 60. We remain 3rd in the league but are just 3 points off the top although 5 goals worse off. We have 6 league games remaining, 4 of which are at home. Win all 6 and, at worst we may finish second on goal difference.
My thanks to the 84 folk who dragged themselves away from their Easter eggs to vote.
The total votes cast for each player (with my own nominations asterisked) are as follows –
Sinisalo: 7
Donovan: 1
Trusty*: 35
Scales: 4
Tierney: 6
McGregor: 8
Oxlade-Chamberlain: 11
Nygren: 6
Yang*: 38
Cvancara: 0
Maeda: 29
Iheanacho*: 64
Ralston: 0
McCowan: 3
Forrest: 7
Saracchi: 33
Unused substitutes: Arthur, Doohan, Hatate, Tounekti
And so, the POINTS earned by each player for the game against Dundee are as follows –
25 points: Iheanacho
22 points: Yang
19 points: Trusty
16 points: Saracchi
14 points: Maeda
12 points: Oxlade-Chamberlain
11 points: McGregor
10 points each: Forrest and Sinisalo
8 points each: Nygren and Tierney
6 points: Scales
5 points: McCowan
4 points: Donovan
3 points each: Cvancara and Ralston
1 point each: Arthur, Doohan, Hatate, Tounekti
The race to be Player Of The Year is now involving just 3 players and any one of them could win. The cumulative points achieved after 51 games played are as follows –
680: Tierney
672: McGregor
669: Scales
495: Nygren
469: Hatate and Trusty
462: Yang
453: Maeda
441: Tounekti
425: Engels
366: Forrest
359: Schmeichel
346: McCowan
310: Donovan
266: Saracchi
246: Iheanacho
244: Araujo
212: Ralston
195: Sinisalo
191: Kenny
163: Bernardo
158: Carter-Vickers and Murray
121: Cvancara
89: Oxlade-Chamberlain
79: Arthur
78: Yamada
76: Balikwisha
60: Johnston
42: Adamu
40: Osmand
23: Inamura
19: Idah
17: Welsh
16: Doohan
14: Simpson-Pusey
8: Mvuka
3: Isiguso and McArdle
2: Hale
1: Hayney and Hatton
0: All the other players who’ve not yet made a matchday squad!
This coming Saturday at 3.00pm Celtic are at home to St Mirren with league leaders Hearts at home to Motherwell. The team currently in 2nd place (but hopefully by then down to 3rd) travel to Falkirk on Sunday.
Hail Hail!
Watching Napoli v Milan.2 and 3 in Series A.Two star studded teams.
If you think our football is low and laborious,these two are worse.Across,back forward,back,across,across,back.Forward,lose it,rinse and repeat for the other team.
Dreadful.
Hmmmm….
https://www.theferret.scot/loyalist-paramilitary-groups-terror-laws/
Well,4 of the most important home games I can remember,with our backs to the wall,with injuries,to play.A chance that our arch rivals can win the League and scoop up a minimum,£40 million,should shake our blundering Board to its core.Seems not.They are still intent on maintaining their ban on the GB.A decision so utterly mad,it defies all logic.At the same time welcoming the gimps that attacked our fans,staff,and players a few weeks ago,to assail our ears with bigotry,sectarianism,and filth.
No such bans on offenders,from their club.Their Board know what’s at stake.Every advantage, they can think of will be used to try and win this,while our Pearl clutchers sit looking on like the witless goons they are.
Clement had a very good start at rangers ….similar to what’s been happening at Norwich
Luckily we had an excellent manager who took him on and beat him …..he was backed in the summer and we blew Clement away ….
We stopped for some reason
Tony Bloom and donations to Zionism
https://x.com/i/status/2041074649669198270
HH
In the bould bhoys book, Liam Kelly nominates 21 individuals as being the founders of Celtic, much of this confirmed by the excellent Celtic The Early Years by Brendan Sweeney.
The Celtic Star published the facts about these men, if I may repeat some of the facts concerning them, not everything but enough for me to suggest we could do with these types of visionaries , with their charitable beginnings, and their sense of collective purposes. Not afraid to be ourselves alone.
I begin.
Irish, or 1st generation Glasgow Irish bar 1.
All Roman Catholic.
All educated.
All self-made men, in a time with openly sectarain practices in trades , employment, education and schooling.
Several became their “firsts” in their chosen field, despite all this.
Openly religious for their faith, in practice and in deeds.
Several believed in Irish Independence.
We dont talk about them enough.
John A MacCreadie: Founding Father Of Donegal Descent
By Liam Kelly 26 April, 2020
his father was the landlord of the Old Empire Bar, on the Saltmarket.
The MacCreadie’s lived on Steel Street, less half a mile from the family bar. It was there that John A MacCreadie grew up after his birth in 1856. The first child of the family,
John attended St Andrew’s School. From there, he went on to St Mungo’s where he was taught by Brother Walfrid, before completing his education at St Aloysius College
In 1887, around the time of Celtic’s formation, John married an Irish immigrant of some prestige – Catherine Hegerty. Catherine hailed from Dundalk and was the sister of the mayor of Louth. Interestingly, the MacCreadie clan expanded their business portfolio beyond the Old Empire Bar at this time, opting to delve into the metal, machinery and boiler businesses. Within a couple of years, John was working on his own as a machinery dealer. He then furthered his independence as he lived with his wife and child, also named John Aloysius MacCreadie, at their own house on London Road in Glasgow’s East End.
according to Willie Maley’s book (The Story of the Celtic), John A MacCreadie remained interested and joined the burgeoning committee of men seeking to establish Celtic Football Club, in a personal capacity. Perhaps this was due to his Celtic connections within the Home Government Branch of the Irish National League, of which he was a member. He was also the first President of the Donegal Reunion Society,
lead member of the Catholic Literary Society and founder of the St Aloysius Association with the assistance of prominent Celtic founding fathers – Joseph Nelis, Joseph Shaughnessy and Dr John Conway.
in late 1907, he suffered with flu, which put strain on his body owing to an underlying heart condition. By 2 January 1908, he had passed away at his home.
A mark of the respect he courted was that almost all leading members of the Glasgow Irish community were present at the funeral, along with a large Celtic delegation, at Dalbeth Cemetery
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so, Catholic, educated by Walfrid himself including at St Aloysius, became a business success, and an Irish Nationalist.
I forgot, no welfare state, no NHS, no pensions, only the family, community and the church , might look after you
An Tearmann on 6th April 2026 9:05 pm
Real News Éire
@real_eire
https://nitter.catsarch.com/real_eire/status/2041183069516845477#m
Irish sellouts who are equally as ignorant and shameless as Teary mann, did this.
Sad are the homes burned to the ground by the dim Glesga ‘Timmy – Tans’ you’ll reap what you have sown!
You weren’t big enough to drop the conflict songbook when humbly asked to do so.
Now you are viewed as ‘leeches’ leeching off of someone else’s Heroics!
“The Fools, The Fools, The Fools” said a great mhan once upon a long ago.
What a disaster.
Pilgrimage, The Road to Holy Island, Episode 1
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk › … › The Road to Holy Island
Seven celebrities make a pilgrimage through the stunning landscapes of north east England to one of Britain’s most important pilgrimage sites, the Holy Island …Read more
Enjoy these annual exploration of faiths through a pilgrimage, tolerant open minded view of religion, nature and people
The Willie Maley creed for Celtic FC, often cited to define the club’s ethos, is: “It is not his creed nor his nationality which counts; it’s the man himself.” As Celtic’s first manager (1897–1940), Maley coined this phrase to emphasize character, ability, and commitment over religious or national identity, molding the club’s foundational identity.
In 2026 I’m very much in favour of an all inclusive Celtic FC on the pitch and in the stands, so Willie Maleys creed fits me well, a club open to all
Key Principles of the Maley Creed:
The Man Himself: Character, talent, and commitment (the “man”) were prioritized over his background or beliefs.
A “Celt” on and off the Field: Maley believed that to be of value to the club, a player had to embody the club’s spirit in all aspects of life.
Recruitment Strategy: Maley prioritized recruiting young, hungry players and nurturing them into the first team, rather than buying established, expensive talent.
Commitment to the Support: He emphasized the honor of wearing the green and white jersey and the duty to repay the fans who came to watch.
good night
Some Fenians were Protestant, for example James Forrest ( One of Willie Maley’s last signings for Celtic ) .
ImpactSubs CSC
Belfast Easter Parade 2026
https://youtu.be/TlBJdLWTgP0?si=h8MlLaGaLTcHaCQS
See we’re after Jon McCracken….nice to see great quality getting added to squad in the summer ….deary me
Quick Celtic Themed Easter Quiz!!!
Q. For the final Glasgow Derby of 2026, which ONE of the following WILL be permitted entry to Celtic Park?
1. Non-season book holders
2. The Union Bears
3. Celtic fan media representatives
4. The Green Brigade
The first correct answer wins the opportunity to write a letter of complaint to the Celtic board.
Good luck!
Kevvi
Have a look at the sex crime stats of your 2%
Riddled with beasts that you ignore.
Dont you be fretting or worrying about immigrants in ireland kevvi
Money for mental haalth services in Blant’R am sure is ringfenced
Lessthan2%
NASA issues new command to the crew of Artemis II…..
Okay you’ve revisited the Dark Side of the Moon…..
Now Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun…
TangYaBassCSC
Vinniethedog
as a replacement for Kyogo ??
BURNLEY78 on 6TH APRIL 2026 3:45 PM
Spot on regarding the downside of not winning this league!
LIONROARS67 – appreciate your La Liga review, but you most definitely topped that with this in response to B78….
“If only Celtic had been in a position of such dominance………………………..”
GENE also on the money with similar remarks re ….
“We’ve had a huge financial advantage for a number of seasons – what have we done with it – just kept ahead of them in the OF duopoly. We’ve got a board with zero ambition, a hollowed out squad and a temporary manager.”
B78 – continuing to point the finger at BR seems inconsistent with your otherwise fair and reasonable perspective. Are we to really believe that he wanted Celtic to fail, and perhaps more importantly, are we to believe that one man could cause the catastrophic failure of an organization as mighty as Celtic PLC?
Celtic Mac on 6th April 2026 10:44 pm
NASA issues new command to the crew of Artemis II…..
Okay you’ve revisited the Dark Side of the Moon…..
Now Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun…
TangYaBassCSC.
Any potential board applicants out yon way??
:-)))
You up before year end?
Hail Hail
THE LONG WAIT IS OVER on 6TH APRIL 2026 1:24 PM (https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/a-goal-can-change-the-world/#comment-4075866)
IMHO, praise is also due to JF.
His ability to hold the ball and still , despite his years, get beyond the defenders over 5 yards or so, even if he has to turn back and recycle , meant Dundee were pinned back more than at any time in the game.
It might be they were falling back anyway to try to hold on for a point but , for me, JF played a big part yesterday – not for the first time this season and , hopefully, not the last.
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Glad someone posted this. Thought it was a masterclass on how to play the position. I was hoping he would come on when the game got ragged at 1-1. Imo it would be a mistake to let James leave in the summer.
Henry Joy on 6th April 2026 10:11 pm
Belfast Easter Parade 2026
https://youtu.be/TlBJdLWTgP0?si=h8MlLaGaLTcHaCQS
Ta for that,get your space booked for the fleadh cheoil 2026 in the neat little town from Aug 2 to 7th,the craic will be mighty.💚🤍💛
HH