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Football writer and author. Sports reporter for @pasport . All views are my own. Re-tweets are not endorsements.

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. #Scotland arrive in Germany and John McGinn joins in Bavarian dance.
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Scenes outside Hampden ahead of #scotland v #israel
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Steve Clarke's message at this morning's presser to the @RangersFC fans who held up the 'get well soon Steve Clarke' banner at Hamilton - "I appreciate their concern. But it is not me that's sick. I'm not sick."
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Some Scotland fans playing the bagpipes outside Cologne Cathedral @ScotlandNT
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Message from Green Brigade at @CelticFC v #ferencvaros
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Protest outside Hampden ahead of #Scotland v #Israel
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. @CelticFC boss Neil Lennon on Ben Davies "It's a blow because we were very close to doing that and obviously we got gazumped at the last minute by Liverpool."
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Pipers arrive at Cologne stadium before @ScotlandNT v Switzerland. Sun is out and atmosphere is building.
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Asked guy who booked me taxi at stadium if he's going to @celticfc game tmw. "Yes, I'm a @LincolnRedImps player"
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Stevie Chalmers funeral cortege arrives at @CelticFC Park. Several thousand fans here to pay respect.
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Choir in German church sing You'll Never Walk alone @celticfc @borussia_en
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Lisbon Lions and other former @celticfc players, chairman and Lord Provost at civic reception in Glasgow city chambers
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The @CelticFC fans at Tynecastle for @JamTarts game have a banner after Brendan Rodgers departure. ‘You traded immortality for mediocrity: never a Celt, always a fraud’
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Derek McInnes confirms @RangersFC are interested in @AberdeenFC ‘s Scott Wright.
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Alternate banners at @RangersFC v @celticfc
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The @CelticFC squad arrive at Sarajevo hotel ahead of Champions League qualifier on Tuesday.
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Neil Lennon on @Club1872rfc statement l/week - "laughable. Insignificant. Never heard of them. Looked like it was written by a 15-year-old"
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The 1,000 or so #Linfield fans drowned out at @celticfc Park
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Henrik Larsson arrives at Hampden for @CelticFC v @MotherwellFC #scottishcupfinal
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Green Brigade banner at @CelticFC Park before AEK Athens game ‘Champions League: You’re having a laugh’
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Brendan Rodgers tells @CelticFC fans re Moussa Dembele - “fully committed to Celtic, has never once asked to leave. We have no interest in selling him. One bid for him that is nowhere value of Moussa “
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The Green Brigade at CelticFC have message for Rod Stewart and the Tories (bad language alert)
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. @CelticFC midfielder Callum McGregor says Ibrox guard of honour (or not) against @RangersFC has not been spoken about in dressing room. “We know we deserve to be champions, that’s enough for us. We don’t need anyone else to pat us on the back.”
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Leigh Griffiths arrived at Glasgow airport with @celticfc squad ahead of trip to Norway expected to play a part. Erik Sviatchenko here too.
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. @RangersFC players suited and booted as they arrive at Ibrox for visit of @CelticFC
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Neil Lennon will speak to @CelticFC midfielder Oliver Ntcham when he returns to club: "I think it is fair to say that a lot of us, would it be management, players or people at the club were not satisfied with the comments."
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Some of the winners at #CheltenhamFestival - I passed them on the way to the ATM...
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The @CelticFC players are being seranaded on to their bus by their fans outside the Mestalla despite their Europa League exit.
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7 years
Stewards struggle to keep @RangersFC fans off the track after first goal v @HibsOfficial
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8 years
Scenes outside @celticfc Park as @RangersFC come off team bus, Joey Barton smiling (language alert)
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Quite a welcome here in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Steve Clarke and his @ScotlandNT squad. Piped out.
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Scottish Palestine solidarity campaigners outside Hampden Park before #Scotland v #Israel Nations League game
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It was a good year for live music in Glasgow.
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Albian Ajeti will be wearing the @CelticFC number 10.
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The first @celticfc fans are inside Windsor Park for #Linfield game
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Early doors outside Hampden Park before Scotland v Israel
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. @CelticFC boss Brendan Rodgers on Charley Musonda-“subject medical, really exciting prospect. 24 clubs were in for Charly, great coup for us.”
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Post-Christmas lifestyle change means one lap of Strathclyde Park every Sunday morning. Halfway round today it started to lash down. Unbelievable. I had to put the window up..
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Beer house welcome in St Petersburg for @CelticFC fans
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Neither @CelticFC or @RangersFC the take the knee at Parkhead with all players, staff and management standing
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Lennon on a "new breed" of @CelticFC supporters. "Since 20 years ago the only thing they have seen is success. They don't remember the 1990s as the older generation do. "I can't take it for granted, they might. That comes from an immaturity from their point of view."
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Scenes in front of Hampden press box as @RangersFC win penalty shoot out against @celticfc
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A ‘Respect Green Bhoys’ banner up among #Cluj fans ahead of @CelticFC game.
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Breaking. @RangersFC striker Alfredo Morelos will face no SFA disciplinary charges following 3 incidents in @CelticFC game. Referee John Beaton saw all incidents in entirety so no retrospective action can be taken.
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Nir Bitton. "You can see players like Joey Barton and Niko Kranjcar who thought Scotland was going to be easy. It is not easy." @celticfc
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Steve Clarke confirms @RangersFC bid for Jordan Jones “nowhere near acceptable. I would be a little bit sad if I was the player, it was so low. Easy to turn down.”
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Palestine flags in abundance at @celticfc park for #HapoelBeerSheva game
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Henrik Larsson greeted by @celticfc fans outside Hampden before #scottishcupfinal v @AberdeenFC
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. @celticfc boss Rodgers says linesman came into dressing room to apologise for Hibs’ penalty. Said officiating “lacked authority” on Sun.
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The @RangersFC fans gloating about @CelticFC Champions League failure. Perfectly understandable. But Gers might never see Champions League football again unless format is changed. Can't you see how difficult it is for Scottish teams to qualify?
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4 years
One thing I’ve learned during this lockdown. There’s not six glasses of wine in a bottle..
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Neil Lennon on @CelticFC players who want to leave the club. "I am not going to go into it but I am putting it out there because it has been bugging me for a long long time."
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Riot police and dogs out at Windsor Park to keep #Linfield fans under control after defeat by @celticfc
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. @CelticFC boss Lennon on Tierney playing and Christie not. "We would be very confused and want answers, that Kieran Tierney is allowed to play and Ryan has been refused to play. "It would be very confusing and I think our supporters would want to know the answers as well."
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. @FCBayern fans are in @celticfc Park early, cheering their players as #greenbrigade display awaits
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Champions League music and rehearsals in impressive Astana Arena ahead of @celticfc visit tomorrow
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. @CelticFC boss Brendan Rodgers responds to Craig Levein’ s latest Scott Brown comments: “he is a wee bit obsessed with Browny,isn’t he? Think it is a huge compliment for Browny that Craig keeps talking about him”.
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. @CelticFC boss Neil Lennon has had long zoom call with Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond and are “totally united, totally together..I have their full support”.
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. @CelticFC boss Brendan Rodgers on @RangersFC players who cheered cup draw. "Just be careful what you wish for". Stuart Armstrong and Dedryck Boyata back in squad.
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Outside @CelticFC Park two hours before the @RangersFC game. Snow getting heavier.
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The @CelticFC fans at Easter Road for @HibernianFC cup tie have a banner with a Jock Stein quote on it. ‘Cups are not won by individuals but by men in a team: who put their club before personal prestige’
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Brendan Rodgers thanks D Desmond, P Lawwell and @CelticFC board for transfer window “everything I asked for I was able to get”
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4 years
New @CelticFC signing Diego Laxalt talking to the media tonight at Parkhead.
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Arrived in Athens ahead of #AEK v @CelticFC . If Celtic defence guard their penalty area as well as my middle seat neighbour guarded her EasyJet arm rest then AEK have no chance.
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The #FCCopenhagen v @CelticFC game coming up.
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. @CelticFC boss Neil Lennon on Ryan Christie situation. "Peter and the board have been pushing this since day one and we have had no clarification, if anything we have just been met with complete resistance so far."
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Brendan Rodgers singles out unsung Callum McGregor as key @celticfc player this season.
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Members of Hillsborough Justice Campaign at @celticfc Park
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Patrick Roberts and Kieran Tierney parade @celticfc Champions scarf at Lennoxtown
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Green Brigade back at @celticfc Park for play-off against Astana
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Some familiar sights in Azteca Stadium tunnel @CelticFC @MotherwellFC #Maradona
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. @celticfc boss Brendan Rodgers on Green Brigade etc.
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"It is a night to celebrate" says Brendan Rodgers after @celticfc progress into the Champions League despite 4-3 defeat by Astana
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More Palestine politics outside @celticfc park ahead of #HapoelBeerSheva game
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Silence from those inside @CelticFC Park before @LiviFCOfficial game to mark death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh but some sort of fireworks outside
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Arrived in Stuttgart for @ScotlandNT game against Hungary tomorrow to see our Switzerland friends leaving.
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Somewhere down there Brendan Rodgers comes out to meet @celticfc fans at Parkhead
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Rain not stopping these @CelticFC supporters protesting
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Neil Lennon not holding back at @CelticFC presser. Says Brown's charges are "trumped up", disagrees with 90 per cent of what Steven Gerrard said after game and revealed the @RangersFC boss did not come into his room after the game.
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. @GaryLineker outside @celticfc park looking at Jock Stein statue ahead of #HapoelBeerSheva play-off.
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A rather subdued greeting by @celticfc fans as @RangersFC arrive. Team bus was playing 'Simply The Best'
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No question of @celticfc being complacent against #Astana says Brendan Rodgers.
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An increased loan offered by 3 bears with no security. You can almost hear the Rangers board thinking, 'how do we get out of this one?'
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4 years
Neil Lennon after @CelticFC defeat by AC Milan “score line didn’t do us justice, a lot to be positive about going forward”.
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Some #SCO fans in Leicester Square doing the David Marshall conga ahead of #eng game
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Tannoy message to fan at @dundeeunitedfc v @acciesfc play-off. "Your wife is in labour".
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Trafalgar Square on Armistice Day
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One of Scottish football's great quirks. @dundeefconline walk down from Dens Park for derby with @dundeeunitedfc
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New signing Scott Sinclair gets a cheer from some @celticfc fans who are on a tour of Parkhead
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#Hibs fans at Ibrox singing 'keep the board' and 'there's only one Mike Ashley'.
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Brendan Rodgers confirm Moussa Dembele is back in @celticfc squad for Ross County game. Dedryck Boyata will be assessed.
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Brendan Rodgers on Jason Cundy comments on @celticfc "It is ignorance really, with due respect. It's a lack of knowledge of football."
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Easter Road before @HibernianFC and @RangersFC Gers fans with pyros.
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Neil Lennon says @RangersFC have a "huge disciplinary problem" and claims @CelticFC skipper Scott Brown was targeted in last match between the sides.
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Well done to @ICTFC boss John Robertson. Gathered the reporters together before Cup semi-final media day at the stadium and encouraged us to fill our boots. Proper open day.
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Lisbon Lions Bertie Auld, John Clark, Jim Craig and Bobby Lennox and former Ranger Willie Henderson, help carry Tommy Gemmell's coffin
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The #Greenbrigade banner at @CelticFC Park for Salzburg game. Not fans of Red Bull I guess.
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Ibrox ahead of minute's silence @RangersFC v @AlloaWasps
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. @RangersFC fans unfurl banner at Hampden before Petrofac final v @pfcofficial
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