{"id":753727,"date":"2026-02-09T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/753727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:25:14","slug":"john-mcglynn-slams-nonsense-charlie-mulgrew-claim-as-celtic-hero-sees-calvin-miller-story-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/753727\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGlynn slams ‘nonsense’ Charlie Mulgrew claim as Celtic hero sees Calvin Miller story shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mulgrew claimed Celtic tried to sign Miller but McGlynn says there was nothing in it<\/p>\n

18:00, 09 Feb 2026Updated 19:31, 09 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

\"Falkirk<\/p>\n

Falkirk manager John McGlynn during his side’s win over Stenhousemuir(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n

John McGlynn has shot down claims a deadline day move for Calvin Miller to Celtic<\/a> was ever on the cards.<\/p>\n

The Falkirk<\/a> boss has insisted there was never any contact between the two clubs over the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n

As the transfer window closed last week there were suggestions that Miller had been set for a return to his boyhood club, only for the move to stall at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n

Former Scotland internationalist Charlie Mulgrew had said that Miller\u2019s agent had got the call a few to say the deal was ready to be done<\/a>, something McGlynn scoffed at.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is never an agent who has done a deal in my life,\u201d said the Bairns manager. \u201cNever can an agent do a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no communication between Celtic and Falkirk Football Club – none whatsoever. It is a lot of nonsense.<\/p>\n

\u201cCeltic have never spoken to anyone at Falkirk He is not the first player and he won\u2019t be the last (for people to try and unsettle).\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Brad Spencer is looking to book a Hampden date after Falkirk\u2019s extra-time Scottish Cup<\/a> win over a stubborn Stenhousemuir side on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

It set up a home tie against either Spartans or Dundee United with the midfielder desperate to make the most of the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Falkirk made it to the semi-finals in 2023, the season before Spencer joined the club. Having heard all about it, he wants to experience it for himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat run was the year before I joined,\u201d he said. \u201cInverness, I think it was, in the semis. They had a good cup run that year and the boys still talk about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have a hard game against Dundee United or Spartans at home. A home tie is all we wanted. We\u2019ve got a hard game on Wednesday now to focus on (against Dundee) and then Dundee United at the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer dug Falkirk out with a cracker of a goal and then set up Barney Stewart for the second to avoid any penalty drama.<\/p>\n

He had missed a shot just a minute before scoring but was never going to allow himself to be distracted by it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking \u2018God, I\u2019m going to get caned for that\u2019. I had to make up for it so I was delighted!<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a couple of touches then just thought \u2018smash it, hit the target\u2019 and got there in the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about moving on. It\u2019s the same as a bad pass or a mistake, things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just need to move on from it. If you sit and dwell over it you\u2019ll be here all night banging your head against a brick wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about keeping the head down and trying to make up for it and that\u2019s what I did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a few games like that in League One and there\u2019s a good group of the squad here that played in League One.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe faced that quite a lot, teams that would sit in and try and frustrate us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just about continuing to probe and keep going and everything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mulgrew claimed Celtic tried to sign Miller but McGlynn says there was nothing in it 18:00, 09 Feb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[2628,7184,15304,172785,94,222049,2630,79,10107,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-753727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-celtic-fc","9":"tag-celtic-transfer-news","10":"tag-charlie-mulgrew","11":"tag-falkirk-fc","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-john-mcglynn","14":"tag-scottish-cup","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-transfer-talk","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116043260024981500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}