Celtic Park
Scotland's largest football stadium, nicknamed Paradise and home of Celtic since 1892.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Celtic Park in Glasgow turns on the night of twenty-three July twenty fourteen, when the football ground home to Celtic became the stage for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. You'll meet its director David Zolkwer, Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle and a troupe of dancing Tunnock's teacakes, and hear why a famous stadium seemed to shrink for the occasion. Along the way it explains how fans came to call this ground Paradise. Best heard facing the South Stand.
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