ABSTRACT
The idea that a football club and its fanbase constitute a ‘family’ is one to which many subscribe. Celtic Football Club in Scotland makes similar claims regarding familial relationships and attachments involving the club and its supporters. This work explores this claim through the writings of supporters as expressed in a series of four edited books entitled ‘Celtic Minded’. The Celtic Minded series investigates what it means to be a Celtic supporter. From this survey, this exercise concludes that Celtic and its supporters’ relationship with history, politics, ethnicity, immigration and religion assists authenticate this contention. This also marks Celtic and much of its support as distinctive amidst an increasingly corporate construction of the idea of family in the world’s most popular team sport.
