Yes, Ambrose had a mistake in him<\/a>, but one thing is for sure: he entertained the masses and was also a character off the field of play. <\/p>\n One man who played alongside Ambrose at Hibs was Stevie Mallan, who is now flying high at the top of the Championship with St Johnstone.<\/p>\n He shared that Ambrose would come to Easter Road in his Mercedes, and he was \u2018still talking about Celtic.\u2019 <\/p>\n Mallan also described the Nigerian star as \u2018the best dribbler\u2019 he has ever seen in small-sided games, but the trophy-winning Hoops star would amazingly ask, \u2018how do you pass a ball straight?\u2019<\/p>\n Si Ferry: \u201cEfe Ambrose, is he a hero?\u201d<\/p>\n Mallan: \u201cHe is a hero. The best dribbler I have ever seen. In small sides, not on a Saturday. He didn\u2019t pass it. Just dribbles with it. <\/p>\n \u201cEfe was late every day and didn\u2019t pay a fine. That was one of them. Just laughed and didn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferry: \u201cWhat was his motor?\u201d<\/p>\n Mallan: \u201cI think he might have still had the Mercedes. I think he has changed now. He was still talking about Celtic when he was at Hibs.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferry: \u201cI have always said this about Efe Ambrose. Can you see why he played for Celtic? Or do you think it\u2019s quite amazing that he did? He played quite a few games for Celtic.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul Slane: \u201cWe loved him, at one point.\u201d<\/p>\n Mallan: \u201cHe used to ask, \u2018how do you pass the ball straight?\u2019 He had that curly toe. He was like, \u2018I can pass it sideways.\u2019 <\/p>\n \u201cBut see as soon as he puts his foot through the ball. It would just go anywhere. I\u2019m pretty sure, at Hibs, he ran through a whole team, got to the edge of the box, and just toe-bashed it over the bar. That sums him up.<\/p>\n \u201cI can see why he played for Celtic. But sometimes you are like \u2018how?\u2019. But he is a legend of a guy.\u201d <\/p>\n Where is Ambrose now?<\/p>\n Well, Celtic legends played a charity game against Feyenoord\u2019s legends<\/a> in Rotterdam over the October international break<\/a>, and Ambrose featured.<\/p>\n But, in terms of his professional career, the 36-year-old is still going and playing on the Scottish domestic scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n After playing for Workington, who are in the seventh tier of English football, last season, Ambrose decided to move to Glasgow United this summer.<\/p>\n Glasgow United are in the ninth tier, including, and this won\u2019t shock anyone, but Ambrose turned up late for his debut against Ardeer Thistle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Efe Ambrose has hero status at Celtic. The centre-back spent five years in the famous green and white…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[87992,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-203407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-efe-ambrose","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Efe](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-474634124-1024x652.jpg\")
Photo by Jeff Holmes\/Getty ImagesThe qualities of Celtic hero Efe Ambrose <\/p>\n