NEILLY PUT SMILES ON CELTIC FACES

LUKE MASSEY AND PAUL JOHN DYKES look back on the time Celtic’s Neilly Mochan netted a Coronation Cup cracker...

IT’S like a goal Superman would score, Pat Stanton told us when describing Neilly Mochan’s legendary strike in the Coronation Cup final for Celtic at Hampden in 1953. The cannonball shot came against Stanton’s beloved Hibernian, whom Pat would later star for with distinction, earning him a transfer to Jock Stein’s Celtic and a place in Scottish Football’s Hall of Fame.Neilly had signed for his boyhood heroes from Middlesbrough on...

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