Only An Excuse, Comedy in Scottish Football & Growing Up With The Lions | With Phil Differ

The Celtic Exchange: Celtic Football Club in Focus

Having worked on some of the best loved Scottish comedy of our times – including Scotch & Rye, City Lights & Rab C Nesbitt – Phil Differ knows a thing or two about making people laugh.

He’s also of course the creator of Only An Excuse, where alongside a host of contributors such as Tony Roper and Jonathan Watson he’s been looking at the lighter side of on Scottish Football from as far back as 1986.

Whilst comedy has played a huge part in Phil’s life, so too has Celtic, and he recalls the privilege of seeing the Lisbon Lions in their prime as an 11 year old boy in 1967, before then going on to meet them in the flesh many years later.

In general terms Phil urges caution when it comes to meeting your heroes, but discards that theory completely when it came to a “bunch of guys from Bellshill, Viewpark & Saltcoats” who won club football’s biggest prize and wrote their names into the history books forever.

Enjoy this brilliant special episode as Tino sits down with Phil to discuss a life in comedy, a life in Scottish Football, and a life in Celtic.

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