Authors react to the ultimate Celtic Bookcase

Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v St Johnstone - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - April 9, 2022 Celtic players celebrate with fans after the match REUTERS/Ed Sykes

An image of a Celtic Bookcase has attracted plenty of attention on Twitter.

It is doubtful if there is another club in the world that has had as many books written about their exploits with every aspect of the club recorded in book form.

The unique nature of Celtic’s founding has been well covered in recent years, through shared knowledge and access the internet has opened up numerous opportunities over the last decade.

Until the late sixties a Celtic book was fairly unusual, Playing for Celtic was published on an annual basis but only the very occasional history or a book by Willie Maley would surface until a build up from the Lisbon Lions era.

By the seventies player autobiographies were coming out, in the mid to late eighties a number of histories and reviews appeared. After 400 appearances for Partick Thistle. 200 at Hibs Alan Rough’s autobiography had his in his Celtic kit after five appearances during a six month swansong with the hoops.

The good and not so good times have been well chronicled, Pat Woods has produced great autobiographies of players from the past with maybe as many as 20 books a year now appearing.

Over the last years books on Willie Fernie, John Doyle and Harry Hood have appeared. With endless possibilities two bookcases just won’t enough.

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