Young Celts lose out to Napoli as Luca Santonocito is named player-of-the-tournament

Napoli ended Celtic's hopes at the Scopigno Youth Tournament in Rieti outside Rome this morning.

Goals in each half proved too much for the Celtic u17 side in an evenly contested match.

Consolation came in the award of player-of-the-tournament which was picked up by midfielder Luca Santonocito, our very own Italian.

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Celtic face Seria A challenge in semi final of Scopigno Tournament in Rome

It's not been a great week, there's an understatment, but today in Rome the Celtic u-17's drew 1-1 with hosts Rieti to reach the semi finals of the Scopigno Memorial trophy.

On Thursday goals from Grant Gallagher, James Forrest, Tomislav Pavlov, Luca Santonocito and a trialist gave Celtic a convincing 5-0 win over Viterbese.

At 10am on Saturday Celtic will face either Roma or Inter Milan with fingers crossed the final scheduled for 5pm on Saturday.

I'll keep you posted with hopefully good news from my man in the Vatican Emerald CSC

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Depression time as the season comes to a halt.

Depressing times as the season draws to an early conclusion.

The end of the season almost arrived last night.

Going out of the Scottish Cup was painful enough but another flat performance was far more concerning.

A flicker of hope in the games against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hearts was followed up by late goals saving the day at St Mirren and Aberdeen.

It will take a miracle to avoid defeat at Ibrox with the SPL going in the same direction as the CIS and Scottish Cups.

Depressing times and an IM Jolly type VIDEO REPORT

Jimmy Johnstone video tribute, two years on from his death

Jimmy Johnstone two years on

It's incredible to think that it's now two years since Jimmy's death.

The sad news reached me in a phone call whilst out in Dubai for a week and although almost inevitable it was tragic and chilling.

Another of our Lions was gone, the most charasmatic of them all and a player that I was lucky enough to see towards the end of his Celtic career with the magic still in his boots.

That side of 72/73/74 was pretty special with Dixie banging in the goals, Danny McGrain and Kenny Dalglish emerging post-Lisbon, Jinky on form, led by Billy McNeil, goals from Bobby Lennox and Harry Hood with Stevie Murray a great signing.

Athletico Madrid killed a dream with brutality in the 1974 European Cup semi-final and we've never really got close to that standard again.

Anyways, enjoy some music and images of Jimmy on this VIDEO

An Irish celebration video of St Patrick's Day, without Ireland we would have no Celtic

Hail Glorious

Without Ireland there would be no Celtic.

What on earth would we all do with ourselves? Would Scottish football exist at a level above that of Iceland, Norway and Lithuania?

Today is Ireland's day, it's St Patrick's Day and worldwide we all celebrate our common link regardless of how many generations removed we are from Ireland

Enjoy this SPECIAL VIDEO