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A fractured skull couldn’t beat Danny McGrain. ‘If I hadn’t been a player I would have been a mechanical engineer,” Danny McGrain admitted. The site has evolved into something that none of us could have predicted and we’d like to think that we’ll keep changing in the coming years.
Not a chance. Danny is a living legend within the confines of Celtic Park. It got to the stage that the opposition actually put wingers on Danny to mark him and not vice versa. The fact he managed to achieve that status despite the many hurdles he had to overcome speaks volumes of his character. For those of us who revere Danny it gives us huge satisfaction to see him still have a role at the club. Broad shouldered, with thighs like tree trunks, his positional sense was as instinctive as it was intelligent and sharp. But I think I’d have been rotten at it! Not only was he around at the time of Lisbon and around for most of the nine-in-a-row years, he also skippered the club in two of their most famous title triumphs – the 4-2 game of 1979 and the last-gasp glory of Love Street in 1986, one of his favourite games as a Celt. View details that no one tells you about. It was also to Celtic’s great fortune that he remained faithful to the club, remaining at Celtic Park for 20 years, having joined just before the Lisbon triumph in 1967 and finally bidding farewell to Paradise in May 1987.
I made the point that the league win would not have been possible without him.
His coaching skills, experience and presence, have been vital to the club, and the many players who have arrived in the intervening years have benefited from that experience and expertise. League: 7
Danny was out of football for a full 18 months. McGrain was never one to shout from the rooftops about his ability but those in the know were never in doubt.
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“I didn’t give a toss who was on the end of it as I was just delighted to keep it in the park.
And at one point in his playing career, Danny McGrain was the finest full-back in world football. McGrain mastered his left foot and was a vital cog in the Scotland team that went unbeaten at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany but still went out at the group stage. A serious fractured jaw cost him league and cup medals in 1972 and the chance to take on Inter Milan in a European cup semi final. BOWING OUT And those players who need a crash-course in the club’s history upon joining, very quickly discover that Daniel Fergus McGrain has a central role in this grand old team. “I hadn’t even heard of diabetes. He won 62 Scotland caps, captained his country in the World Cup finals and was Scottish player of the year in 1977. The 16,000 crowd saw the home side take the lead in the 31st minute and Davie Hay equalise with eight minutes left.
PARADISE FOUND So when Danny unfurls the flag on Saturday to a full house at Celtic Park, let’s lift the roof off for an all time Celtic great, the Quality Street kid who stayed the course. Scottish Cup: 1 He recovered to become a Hoops mainstay and before long was a regular in the Scotland set-up, albeit at left-back. NEIL Lennon last night insisted he doesn’t feel under any additional pressure ahead of Celtic’s massive Premiership match against Aberdeen at Pittodrie tomorrow despite his side suffering back-to-back defeats for the first time in nearly two years. Brad Pitt calls Biden 'a president for all Americans' in campaign ad, Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane lines up new streaming show Smokey and the Bandit, Amazon shoppers are calling this £20 cape cardigan 'really snug', Dimitar Berbatov explains how he reacted to Sir Alex Ferguson's Man Utd apology, Zoom and Instagram enter ranks of 'best' global brands, Kingston KC2500 M.2 NVMe SSD review: perfect storage for high-performance PCs, Simon Cowell 'gains weight to help recover from back surgery', Torsus unveils the most extreme school bus on the planet, Foreign students show less zeal for US since Trump took over, These halloween cocktails will make fall festivities even better. It isn’t only fans who idolised McGrain. Legend has it that Rangers approached the young player but on hearing that his name was Daniel Fergus McGrain, they wrongly presumed he was Catholic and didn’t pursue the matter further. Danny McGrain’s first and last appearances for Celtic both featured on the front page of the Celtic View - the first after making the breakthrough as a 20-year-old and the last after playing his part in the magnificent 5-0 win over St Mirren in Paisley when Dundee’s 2-0 defeat of Hearts at Dens Park also helped win the title in the most dramatic of circumstances. Scottish Cup: 60 Danny McGrain wasn’t even born when Bobby played his first game for Celtic.
However, the really great players achieve a level of consistency which sets them apart from the rest. Posted by St Anthony | Jul 29, 2018 | Season 2017-2018 | 0 |. ... Danny was still recovering at his home in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, yesterday, reluctant to talk about his near death experience last Thursday. On this, Danny's 70th birthday, we take a look back at his impressive career in the green and white Hoops. Remember Craig and Gemmell?
He was farmed out to both Queen’s Park Victoria XI and Maryhill Juniors while another recent signing, Kenny Dalglish did likewise with Cumbernauld United.
Total: 8, HONOURS The Celtic defender was regarded as the best right-back on the planet in the early 70s and even when he switched to left-back for his country, to accommodate another supremely talented defender in the shape of Rangers’ Sandy Jardine, he was still world class. The Hoops legend has been a … Danny was magnificent that night and relentlessly encouraged the team to victory. He also played a central role in Celtic’s stunning third goal that day, starting the move on the edge of his own penalty area, which ended with the ball in the back of the St Mirren net. Had we qualified there would have been buildings, bridges and book shelves falling down all over Scotland.’, APPEARANCES These days people rave about wing backs but it should be noted that Danny was playing in this fashion 40 years ago, long before it became fashionable. Celtic Park Spectator Safety Policy Statement, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement. At half-time of the first match against Zaire, Willie Ormond was giving his team-talk while I was under a tap drinking water. Physically, he recovered but McGrain was to later reveal that it was his manager Jock Stein who gave him the mental confidence to complete his comeback.
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“During that World Cup I went to the toilet every hour then went back to my room to drink more water.
“I was in hospital for a week. That switch, though, shone a light on the mentality that took McGrain to the top. When the doc told me I had to inject myself twice a day I thought there was no chance I was ever going to do that. @1888jackie tweeted: "Daniel Fergus McGrain one of the best full backs ever to … On August 26, 1970, Celtic travelled to Tannadice for a League Cup sectional match with the Hoops already qualified. That, though, turned out to be the biggest blessing in disguise of the then 24-year-old McGrain’s life.
HIGHLIGHTS The doctors had never worked with a footballer before which was a problem. IT should really be remembered as one of Danny McGrain’s finest hours, not Scottish football’s darkest days. League: 441 In doing so he became a future role model for many footballers with a similar problem. Three days later, the fifth consecutive league flag was raised at Celtic Park and McGrain made his first start and home debut. Injury kept him out of the 1978 World Cup but he played in 1974 – earning a place in the BBC’s World XI – and in 1982, winning the last of his 62 caps in the final game against the USSR. He said: "It's the first time it has ever happened to me and I managed to pull the car into the side of the road. On a horrendous spring day in Glasgow with rain teeming down, over 94000 turned up at Hampden to roar Scotland on.
Danny McGrain left Celtic on May 12, 1987, just one day short of the 20th anniversary of his signing for the club. League Cup: 2
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But more than that, he inspired thousands for more than a decade with his marauding overlapping, terrific crossing and tenacious tackling. He was part of the famous Quality Street Gang, a group of highly-talented young players coming through the ranks at Celtic in the wake of the legendary Lisbon Lions, but even among those youngsters, many of whom would go on to have impressive football careers, Danny McGrain and Kenny Dalglish were the two names who stood above all the rest. McGrain was a modern-day full back in an era when most refused to cross the halfway line but Celtic’s philosophy under Stein was always to get right and left-backs up the field. The enduring friendship between Lewis Ferguson and Ross McCrorie started eight years ago when they were part of the Rangers youth system. The same day he played at Ibrox, on May 13, 1967, Sean Fallon was sitting with McGrain’s parents in their Drumchapel home, when he got home he signed for Celtic that same day. His 17-year Celtic career drew to a close after helping his team win the most unlikely of league titles on the last day of the 1986 season at Love Street and he spent a season at Hamilton before calling it a day. He was a Celtic player for 20 years and was a successful captain for 10 of those years. “It was a terrible indictment on Scottish football.
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And they learned from training and playing alongside the great Celts that Jock Stein had forged into an all-conquering team. ‘That’s what I trained for in college in my early years at the club and I had the qualifications for it. “I was two stone lighter when I got back from Germany and our doctor, John. That is the measure of the man and within three months of being back in the team he had led Celtic to that unforgettable league victory in 1979 when Celtic’s 10 men overcame the all the odds to beat Rangers 4-2 to become the stuff of legend. Europe: 56 Slim Patches: Do They Help You Lose Weight. There were six championships, five Scottish Cups and two League Cups, his first two championships coming as part of the nine-in-a-row sequence, while his final three were as skipper as he was the proud captain of the Hoops for a decade. Danny was the perfect mix of both. Ex-midfielder Peter Grant, now Alloa’s manager, said: “Danny was my hero. The young Danny McGrain replaced Harry Hood in the 65th minute of that match.
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