Tommy Burns is adored as a footballer and manager at Celtic and now a group want him to be canonised by the Catholic Church

Villans host Bhoys in Champions League on WednesdayDefender Mings was in tears after injury at West Ham Unai Emery has allayed fears over another lengthy absence for Tyrone Mings after the Aston Villa defender’s distraught reaction to his latest knee injury against West Ham on Sunday. Emery even floated the idea of Mings facing Celtic in the Champions League on Wednesday, only to be contradicted by the Villa midfielder Jacob Ramsey. Mings was in tears as he exited early in the 1-1 draw with West Ham. The 31-year-old has been troubled by persistent knee problems, including two anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Understandably, onlookers – and the England international himself – feared the worst on Sunday. Continue reading...

Deal done for left-back to go back to Scotland in summerBut Rodgers keen for move to be in this transfer window Brendan Rodgers has confirmed for the first time that Celtic have agreed a deal to re-sign Kieran Tierney from Arsenal. With a free transfer in place for the summer, Celtic hope to be able to bring Tierney back to Glasgow before this transfer window closes. Celtic sold Tierney to Arsenal in 2019 for £25m, the left-back having come through the youth ranks at the Scottish champions. Speculation never really disappeared that Tierney would return to Celtic; those stories intensified after it became clear Arsenal would not take up the option to extend Tierney’s contract at the end of this campaign. Continue reading...

Kieran Tierney has found himself out of favour at Arsenal, with the left-back's contract set to expire at the end of the season, and now Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has confirmed the player will join them this summer at the latest

Brendan Rodgers confirms that Scotland defender Kieran Tierney will move to Celtic from Arsenal this summer at the latest.

TWO of the UK’s longest-running grassroots festivals have joined forces to celebrate Celtic music, land, and nature this summer ...

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Kyogo Furuhashi has left Celtic for Rennes, but who will replace the striker up front as Jota returns to the Scottish champions from the French club?

With a Champions League playoff spot secured before Wednesday’s trip to Aston Villa, the manager will have a plan for life after Glasgow These are compelling times for a compelling character. January has witnessed Brendan Rodgers jousting with his own supporter base, fall victim to an ultra-rare Old Firm defeat and guide his team to the playoff round of the Champions League. The argument was entertaining, the loss at Ibrox totally unimportant, and Celtic’s manager will return to the Midlands on Wednesday night having achieved a stated goal – making material headway in Europe. Substance over style. Timing is everything. Rodgers has done this just as Ange Postecoglou flounders badly at Tottenham in a blow to those at Celtic desperately clinging to the Australian’s supposedly transferable skills. Rodgers and Postecoglou are fundamentally different in umpteen senses, one being that the Irishman has an emotional attachment to Celtic. Without that, the Scottish champions could not attract a coach of his standing or ambition. A persistent question surrounds how long that connection can sustain Rodgers in a domestic scene which should not excite him beyond a contract term that ends in the summer of 2026. In that context, the Champions League is hugely significant. Continue reading...

Celtic secure the return of Portuguese winger Jota from French club Rennes for an undisclosed fee.

Death of Rob Rowan at 28 in 2018 shocked the club and prompted them to help set up a heart health charity “I remember celebrating the header from Mads Bech Sørensen’s long throw against Arsenal in our first Premier League match and it felt like Rob was sitting next to me,” says the Brentford director Nity Raj. It is more than six years since Rob Rowan died but his memory lives on in west London. Rowan had been tipped for a long and successful career in football after becoming Brentford’s technical director at the age of 28. He had been promoted to that role after almost four years at the club, mostly as the head of football operations, but nine months later, in November 2018, the former Celtic scout had a fatal cardiomyopathy episode – similar to a heart attack. Continue reading...

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