{"id":591363,"date":"2026-05-18T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591363\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:27:10","slug":"44-years-of-being-a-celtic-fan-its-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591363\/","title":{"rendered":"44 years of being a Celtic fan: &#8216;It&#8217;s a way of life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McEvoy, a member of \u00c9ire Go Br\u00e1ch Celtic supporters club in Belfast said he was &#8220;confident&#8221; of the win, even when others were doubtful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was always confident, but you could feel the tension building on the boat among fans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The atmosphere in the stadium was electric, the scenes were unbelievable and it&#8217;s something that will live with me forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McEvoy has witnessed first-hand some of Celtic&#8217;s most historic games, including the 1998 title race where a win prevented Rangers from completing 10 titles in a row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s 3-1 victory however, &#8220;topped it all&#8221; according to McEvoy, and it was made all the more special by his daughter Saoirse sharing it with him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It brought me a lot of joy to be a part of history, and to be there with my daughter, money couldn&#8217;t buy that feeling,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McEvoy, a member of \u00c9ire Go Br\u00e1ch Celtic supporters club in Belfast said he was &#8220;confident&#8221; of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591363","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=591363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}