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CQN continues our tribute to Celtic legend Billy McNeill who passed away a year and a day ago today at the age of 79.

We are publishing exclusive edited extracts of author Alex Gordon’s book, ‘BILLY McNEILL: In Praise of Caesar’, in honour of the club great.

Today former keeper and Republic of Ireland icon Pat Bonner pays his tribute.

BILLY McNEILL was deadly serious. ‘Get your act together or you’re on the next boat home,’ he told me.

I was 19 years old, a boy among men, really. I could have folded. Let’s face it, those were extremely hurtful words from the Celtic manager.

If Billy was trying to provoke a reaction from a rookie keeper, then he had more of an impact than any psychologist. I was determined to prove the manager wrong. Quite literally, my future was in my own hands.

I always arrived early for training, but I can tell you, I never got in before Billy. I think he switched on the lights in the morning when he arrived and switched them off at night when he went home.

I had had something of a meteoric rise after becoming Jock Stein’s last signing for the club on May 14 1978, just ten days before my eighteenth birthday. I often wondered about that. Big Jock must have known he would be leaving the position yet he still took time to travel over to Ireland to sit down with a teenager and explain all that entailed in becoming a Celtic player. He went through everything in fine detail. And then I turned up for pre-season training in July and there was no sign of Jock.

Billy McNeill and his assistant John Clark had just taken over after leaving Aberdeen, so we were all starting at the same time. Naturally, they didn’t know me, a raw teenager from Donegal Junior football who had been spotted by Sean Fallon playing for Keadue Rovers. That actually worked for me. Billy and John really put me through my paces during the pulverising training routines before they made up their minds. They had to find out fast if they believed I had what it took to be a goalie at the club.

At that time, Celtic had Peter Latchford and Roy Baines as the two main goalkeepers. I was put in the reserve side, but I trained with the first team. Billy realised he would have to toughen me up just in case an injury ruled out the others. You could say things got a bit rigorous during training. The manager was determined to work on my ability with cross balls.

As a special treat, he arranged for the likes of Big Shuggy Edvaldsson, Roy Aitken, Tom McAdam and Roddie MacDonald, all six-foot plus and built to match, to make sure I knew they were around when I came for a high ball.

I should add Billy joined in, too. He was still fit enough to get into that tracksuit, as he did every single day. He was eager to get involved in everything we did and, at the same time, he made certain there were no slackers.

I used to play Gaelic football back home in Ireland, so I was used to going up early to catch the ball. However, with a football, that could prove to be dodgy. One slip and the ball would be behind you and, as luck would have it, there would normally be an opponent lurking around to stab it into the net. So, there was a slight change in timing and rising to meet a ball dropped into a packed penalty area when friend and foe went for it at the same time.

All sorts of crosses were flighted into the penalty area in an aerial bombardment and I had to attempt to clear a path to take the ball at the most advantageous point. Billy, Big Shuggy and the others made it as difficult as possible for me to make a clean catch.

I was buffeted around, blocked off, challenged with elbows flying around and you had to maintain complete and utter concentration. If I mishandled a cross, Billy would simply say, ‘Right, let’s spend another half-hour on this. Take your positions, boys’. And we would go through it all again.

It could be brutal. These guys were my colleagues and they were giving me more of a bashing than our opponents on matchday. After weeks of being clattered by my so-called mates, I decided to do something about it. During another exhausting training session, a ball arrived in the box and, as luck would have it, it was about to land between Billy and me.

I saw my chance. I went for it with everything I had. We were two big lads and, remember, Billy had been playing for Celtic just three or four years beforehand. We were on a collision course and I decided to punch the ball clear.

There was a dreadful thud and maybe I got more of Billy’s head than the spherical object. The manager was just a wee bit dazed as I said, ‘Sorry, boss, I think I might have caught you there.’

Those merciless and gruelling training routines came to a halt that day. Of course, it could have been a coincidence.

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IT’S Day Fifteen of CQN’s tribute to Celtic legend Billy McNeill.

We are publishing EXCLUSIVE edited extracts from author Alex Gordon’s book in honour of the club great, ‘BILLY McNEILL: In Praise of Caesar’, which was published in August last year.

Today former Republic of Ireland and Hoops iconic keeper Pat Bonner reveals his memories of his ex-manager.

BILLY McNEILL was deadly serious. ‘Get your act together or you’re on the next boat home,’ he told me.

I was 19 years old, a boy among men, really. I could have folded. Let’s face it, those were extremely hurtful words from the Celtic manager.

If Billy was trying to provoke a reaction from a rookie keeper, then he had more of an impact than any psychologist. I was determined to prove the manager wrong. Quite literally, my future was in my own hands.

I always arrived early for training, but I can tell you, I never got in before Billy. I think he switched on the lights in the morning when he arrived and switched them off at night when he went home.

I had had something of a meteoric rise after becoming Jock Stein’s last signing for the club on May 14 1978, just ten days before my eighteenth birthday. I often wondered about that. Big Jock must have known he would be leaving the position yet he still took time to travel over to Ireland to sit down with a teenager and explain all that entailed in becoming a Celtic player. He went through everything in fine detail. And then I turned up for pre-season training in July and there was no sign of Jock.

Billy McNeill and his assistant John Clark had just taken over after leaving Aberdeen, so we were all starting at the same time. Naturally, they didn’t know me, a raw teenager from Donegal Junior football who had been spotted by Sean Fallon playing for Keadue Rovers. That actually worked for me. Billy and John really put me through my paces during the pulverising training routines before they made up their minds. They had to find out fast if they believed I had what it took to be a goalie at the club.

At that time, Celtic had Peter Latchford and Roy Baines as the two main goalkeepers. I was put in the reserve side, but I trained with the first team. Billy realised he would have to toughen me up just in case an injury ruled out the others. You could say things got a bit rigorous during training. The manager was determined to work on my ability with cross balls.

As a special treat, he arranged for the likes of Big Shuggy Edvaldsson, Roy Aitken, Tom McAdam and Roddie MacDonald, all six-foot plus and built to match, to make sure I knew they were around when I came for a high ball.

I should add Billy joined in, too. He was still fit enough to get into that tracksuit, as he did every single day. He was eager to get involved in everything we did and, at the same time, he made certain there were no slackers.

I used to play Gaelic football back home in Ireland, so I was used to going up early to catch the ball. However, with a football, that could prove to be dodgy. One slip and the ball would be behind you and, as luck would have it, there would normally be an opponent lurking around to stab it into the net. So, there was a slight change in timing and rising to meet a ball dropped into a packed penalty area when friend and foe went for it at the same time.

All sorts of crosses were flighted into the penalty area in an aerial bombardment and I had to attempt to clear a path to take the ball at the most advantageous point. Billy, Big Shuggy and the others made it as difficult as possible for me to make a clean catch.

I was buffeted around, blocked off, challenged with elbows flying around and you had to maintain complete and utter concentration. If I mishandled a cross, Billy would simply say, ‘Right, let’s spend another half-hour on this. Take your positions, boys’. And we would go through it all again.

It could be brutal. These guys were my colleagues and they were giving me more of a bashing than our opponents on matchday. After weeks of being clattered by my so-called mates, I decided to do something about it. During another exhausting training session, a ball arrived in the box and, as luck would have it, it was about to land between Billy and me.

I saw my chance. I went for it with everything I had. We were two big lads and, remember, Billy had been playing for Celtic just three or four years beforehand. We were on a collision course and I decided to punch the ball clear.

There was a dreadful thud and maybe I got more of Billy’s head than the spherical object. The manager was just a wee bit dazed as I said, ‘Sorry, boss, I think I might have caught you there.’

Those merciless and gruelling training routines came to a halt that day. Of course, it could have been a coincidence.

*TOMORROW: Another legend reveals his special Billy McNeill recollections.

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‘Here’s to the Celtic, triumphant today

Here’s their consistency, skill and fair-play.

Here’s to ‘Prince Charlie’, of keepers the best,

And here’s to Joe Dodds, who withstood Hampden’s test.

Here’s to our ‘Iceberg’, of tactics a master

Whose coolness oft saves his great club from disaster’

Glasgow Observer, 25 April 1914

The Charlie Shaw Story

New Jersey, on the banks of the Hudson River, is a long, long way from Twechar, a village which nestles in the valley below the Campsie Hills, close to where the modern Celtic teams train each day at the new Lennoxtown facility. Yet in the Madonna Cemetery in Fort Lee, a short distance across the Hudson from New York City, lies a Celtic hero.

On his headstone it has his and his wife’s names, the years they lived and the simple legend ‘Glasgow Celtics’. His story has been a long time untold. This year though, it will be told anew.

Twechar-born Charlie Shaw was 27 years old when he first stepped between the goalposts for Celtic against Third Lanark on the 6 May 1913, a century ago. He had done his apprenticeship the hard way.

He started keeping goal for local teams Baillieston Thistle and Kirkintilloch Harp before he was picked up, age 21, by Port Glasgow Athletic. The team from the Port were then in Scotland’s top division and Charlie soon found himself playing against his childhood heroes. He lost four in his first appearance at Celtic Park on Christmas Eve 1906 but shone when Celtic visited the Port on 6 May 1907, saving a first minute penalty from the legendary Jimmy Quinn.

He helped earn his side, who would finish bottom, a creditable point against the first ever truly great Celtic team who were in the middle of their world record-breaking 6-in-a-row League Championship sequence. Manager Willie Maley wouldn’t forget the name of Charlie Shaw.

At that time Davie Adams was the Celtic number one and would serve the club with distinction until his retirement in 1912. Charlie’s efforts with Port Glasgow earned him a move to London after only one season when he joined Queen’s Park Rangers in 1907.

Over six seasons he proved himself a model of consistency, playing 223 times and missing only three games for a team who then, auspiciously, played in green-and-white hoops. Charlie won the Southern League championship on two occasions and also played in two Charity Cup finals while based in West London.

However, come May 1913 and Davie Adams now retired Willie Maley was facing something of a crisis. Adams’ replacement, John Mulrooney, was suffering from rheumatism. Celtic had gone 3 years without reclaiming the League title. As Maley wrote in his memoirs: “A first rate man was imperative. Shaw belonged to Lennoxtown, but my first recollection of him as a player was when he kept goal for Port Glasgow Athletic.

“I had not forgotten him when our goalkeeping emergency arose, Charlie was delighted to sign for Celtic.

“He was what I term a great goalkeeper, he was not big, only 5 ft 6 ins, but, strong, well set, weighing 12 stone, and as agile as a cat, and fearless as a lion defending his cubs.

“Shaw had ways and wiles of his own, There were no orthodoxy about his goalkeeping. He took risks which would have scared a tamer of wild elephants. Generally they came off. Shaw’s star of fortune was high in the sky.”

Celtic paid £400 for Charlie, then a record signing for the club. One newspaper reported that “Celtic have a gem of a custodian in the man from QPR”.

He was to prove an instant success – and how. Pitched in to the semi-final of the Charity Cup for his debut, he retained his place for the Hampden final against Rangers. Despite losing two goals in the opening five minutes, Charlie and his team-mates – included Celtic greats such as Patsy Gallacher, ‘Sunny’ Jim Young, Alec McNair, Willie Loney, Joe Dodds and Andy McAtee – stormed back to secure a 3-2 victory. It was Paradise Found for Charlie Shaw!

In his first full season of 1913-14 Charlie played 45 straight competitive games – and kept a record 26 clean sheets in 38 league games. This was the start of an incredible sequence of appearances which saw Charlie play 200 Celtic first team games in succession from 6 May 1913 to 5 October 1918. For any player, never mind a goalie, to retain his place despite the ravages of form and injury for such a long time – especially in an era where charging the keeper was still permitted – is a truly remarkable record.

It wouldn’t be the only one for Charlie in his Celtic career. In that sequence itself Celtic had gone 66 consecutive matches unbeaten from December 1915 to April 1917 – another incredible achievement that would last a century.

Charlie’s first season saw the Bhoys win back the League title and also claim the Scottish Cup – only the third time in the Club’s history that the Double had been achieved (and the last for four decades). The defensive trio of Shaw, McNair and Dodds, who had lost a record 14 goals all season long, were in the words of Celtic’s first official historian Dr. James Handley, “functioning as the safest triangular defence in football and the reiterated advice from the terracing to ‘pass it back to Charlie’ was almost monotonously followed. This perfect confidence in the alertness of their goalkeeper was no new thing . . . the gesture was made to keep him occupied for Shaw was regarded as the loneliest goalkeeper in Great Britain.”

Willie Maley recalled that “they developed the passback into a scientific move of which there have been many imitators, but none to equal the originators . . . that was their method of getting out of a corner, which in all probability would have otherwise been fatal. Many and many a hole did it take Celtic out of.”

Maley also remembered how the famous cry of ‘pass it back to Cherlie!’ made it onto the golfing green during a footballers’ competition at Troon where Alec ‘Icicle’ McNair had bunkered a shot from the first tee, watched by his team-mates and others:

“McNair found his ball hard up in the face of the bunker. He stood looking down at it, mashie in hand, wondering what he should do. He certainly could not advance. The gallery gathered round, watching in silence. Alec continued to concentrate. Not a word. Then from the back of the crowd came a voice – “Pass it to Cherlie.” That did it. The gallery guffawed, Even Icicle McNair melted. Charlie Shaw, in a spasm of uncontrolled laughter, fell into the bunker! Alec took two to get out.”

Charlie and Celtic won four Scottish Division One titles in succession from 1914 – 1917 and earned fame far and wide. More League winners medals followed in 1919 and 1922. First class football continued throughout World War One but the Scottish Cup was suspended and it was 1923 before Charlie got his hands on that famous old trophy.

One of Charlie’s great-grandsons, Brendan Cahill, tells the story of how Charlie had been encouraged by a fellow railwayman, Jim McGharen, to try out for Celtic having seen Charlie’s early efforts as a goal-keeper. Charlie had promised Jim that if he succeeded he would give him one of his cup winner’s medals. In May 2012, on his honeymoon in Ireland, Brendan visited Jim’s nephew, John McCafferty, who owns the Tir Connail bar in Donegal Town – and saw the medal for the first time, it having been handed down to John as a family heirloom. A promise honoured – from a game where Charlie, yet again, kept a clean sheet, in a 1-0 victory over Hibernian in front of 82,000 fans.

Aged 40, Charlie’s Celtic career finally came to a close in 1925 after twelve incredible years which had also seen him the first ever ‘keeper made Celtic captain. The affection that the Celtic support had for him was demonstrated when, playing away at Dundee in September 1922, they were singing his name soon after the game started. This was an absolute novelty at the time – and drew criticism from the Dundee Courier for being “an extraordinarily stupid idea”!

However, Charlie wasn’t finished with football. His old team-mates Willie Crilly and Willie McStay had travelled to the USA few years earlier to ply their trade in the new professional leagues that had developed there. Charlie followed when he was signed up as player-manager for the New Bedford Whalers and crossed the Atlantic in June 1925, his family joining him the following year.

He enjoyed success in the States too, with the Whalers coming second in the American Soccer League. In 1931 Charlie joined up with his former team-mates on their American tour. David Potter, in the club’s 125th anniversary history, records that he had a long chat with John Thomson about the art of goal-keeping.

Tragically neither Celtic legend was to see out the decade: Charlie died in New York City on 27th March 1938 aged 52. His wife Ann survived him by an incredible 50 years, living to the grand old age of 104 and passing away in Celtic’s centenary season.

Charlie Shaw is, statistically, the greatest goalkeeper in Celtic’s long and illustrious history. With 236 shut-outs in 444 appearances, his clean sheet ratio is an incredible 53%. He beats, by some distance, Lisbon Lion Ronnie Simpson, on 48% with 188 appearances and the ‘keeper he was ultimately bought to take over from, Davie Adams, who sits on 43% after 291 appearances.

Pat Bonner is the only man to keep goal more often than Charlie with 641 appearances and his clean sheet ratio of 39% puts him 4th on the list. John Thomson, who had 66 shut outs in only 188 appearances and could well have gone on to challenge Charlie’s stats, has a commendable 35% ratio.

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Here’s to the Celtic, triumphant today

Here’s their consistency, skill and fair-play.

Here’s to ‘Prince Charlie’, of keepers the best,

And here’s to Joe Dodds, who withstood Hampden’s test.

Here’s to our ‘Iceberg’, of tactics a master

Whose coolness oft saves his great club from disaster’

Glasgow Observer, 25 April 1914

New Jersey, on the banks of the Hudson River, is a long, long way from Twechar, a village which nestles in the valley below the Campsie Hills, close to where the modern Celtic teams train each day at the Lennoxtown facility. 

Yet in the Madonna Cemetery in Fort Lee, a short distance across the Hudson from New York City, lies a Celtic hero. On his headstone it has his and his wife’s names, the years they lived and the simple legend ‘Glasgow Celtics’. His story has been a long time untold. Now though, it will be told anew.

  Twechar-born Charlie Shaw was 27 years old when he first stepped between the goalposts for Celtic against Third Lanark on the 6th May 1913, over a century ago. He had done his apprenticeship the hard way. He started keeping goal for local teams Baillieston Thistle and Kirkintilloch Harp before he was picked up, age 21, by Port Glasgow Athletic. 

The team from the Port were then in Scotland’s top division and Charlie soon found himself playing against his childhood heroes. He lost four in his first appearance at Celtic Park on Christmas Eve 1906 but shone when Celtic visited the Port on 6th May 1907, saving a first minute penalty from the legendary Jimmy Quinn. 

He helped earn his side, who would finish bottom, a creditable point against the first ever truly great Celtic team who were in the middle of their world record-breaking 6-in-a-row League Championship sequence. Manager Willie Maley wouldn’t forget the name of Charlie Shaw.  

At that time Davie Adams was the Celtic number one and would serve the club with distinction until his retirement in 1912. Charlie’s efforts with Port Glasgow earned him a move to London after only one season when he joined Queen’s Park Rangers in 1907. Over six seasons he proved himself a model of consistency, playing 223 times and missing only three games for a team who then, auspiciously, played in green-and-white hoops. 

Charlie won the Southern League championship on two occasions and also played in two Charity Cup finals while based in West London. 

However, come May 1913 and Davie Adams now retired Willie Maley was facing something of a crisis. Adams’ replacement, John Mulrooney, was suffering from rheumatism. Celtic had gone 3 years without reclaiming the League title. As Maley wrote in his memoirs: “A first rate man was imperative. Shaw belonged to Lennoxtown, but my first recollection of him as a player was when he kept goal for Port Glasgow Athletic. I had not forgotten him when our Goalkeeping emergency arose, Charlie was delighted to sign for Celtic. He was what I term a great goalkeeper, he was not big, only 5 ft 6 ins, but, strong, well set, weighing 12 stone, and as agile as a cat, and fearless as a lion defending his cubs.  

Shaw had ways and wiles of his own, There were no orthodoxy about his goalkeeping. He took risks which would have scared a tamer of wild elephants. Generally they came off. Shaw’s star of fortune was high in the sky.”  

Celtic paid £400 for Charlie, then a record signing for the club. One newspaper reported that “Celtic have a gem of a custodian in the man from QPR”. He was to prove an instant success – and how. Pitched in to the semi-final of the Charity Cup for his debut, he retained his place for the Hampden final against Rangers. 

Despite losing two goals in the opening five minutes, Charlie and his team- mates – included Celtic greats such as Patsy Gallacher, ‘Sunny’ Jim Young, Alec McNair, Willie Loney, Joe Dodds and Andy McAtee – stormed back to secure a 3-2 victory.  It was Paradise Found for Charlie Shaw!  

In his first full season of 1913-14 Charlie played 45 straight competitive games – and kept a record 26 clean sheets in 38 league games. This was the start of an incredible sequence of appearances which saw Charlie play 200 Celtic first team games in succession from 6th May 1913 to 5th October 1918. 

For any player, never mind a goalie, to retain his place despite the ravages of form and injury for such a long time – especially in an era where charging the keeper was still permitted – is a truly remarkable record. 

It wouldn’t be the only one for Charlie in his Celtic career. 

In that sequence itself Celtic had gone 66 consecutive matches unbeaten from December 1915 to April 1917 – another incredible achievement.  

Charlie’s first season saw the Bhoys win back the League title and also claim the Scottish Cup – only the 3rd time in the Club’s history that the Double had been achieved (and the last for four decades). The defensive trio of Shaw, McNair and Dodds, who had lost a record 14 goals all season long, were in the words of Celtic’s first official historian Dr. James Handley, “functioning as the safest triangular defence in football and the reiterated advice from the terracing to ‘pass it back to Charlie’ was almost monotonously followed. This perfect confidence in the alertness of their goalkeeper was no new thing  . . . the gesture was made to keep him occupied for Shaw was regarded as the loneliest goalkeeper in Great Britain.”  

Willie Maley recalled that “they developed the passback into a scientific move of which there have been many imitators, but none to equal the originators . . . that was their method of getting out of a corner, which in all probability would have otherwise been fatal. Many and many a hole did it take Celtic out of.” 

Maley also remembered how the famous cry of ‘pass it back to Cherlie!’ made it onto the golfing green during a footballers’ competition at Troon where Alec ‘Icicle’ McNair had bunkered a shot from the first tee, watched by his team-mates and others: “McNair found his ball hard up in the face of the bunker. He stood looking down at it, mashie in hand, wondering what he should do. He certainly could not advance. The gallery gathered round, watching in silence. 

Alec continued to concentrate. Not a word. Then from the back of the crowd came a voice – “Pass it to Cherlie.” That did it. The gallery guffawed, even Icicle McNair melted. Charlie Shaw, in a spasm of uncontrolled laughter, fell into the bunker! Alec took two to get out.”  

Charlie and Celtic won four Scottish Division One titles in succession from 1914 – 1917 and earned fame far and wide. More League winners medals followed in 1919 and 1922. 

First class football continued throughout World War One but the Scottish Cup was suspended and it was 1923 before Charlie got his hands on that famous old trophy. 

One of Charlie’s great-grandsons, Brendan Cahill, tells the story of how Charlie had been encouraged by a fellow railwayman, Jim McGharen, to try out for Celtic having seen Charlie’s early efforts as a goal-keeper. 

Charlie had promised Jim that if he succeeded he would give him one of his cup winner’s medals. In May 2012, on his honeymoon in Ireland, Brendan visited Jim’s nephew, John McCafferty, who owns the Tir Connail bar in Donegal Town – and saw the medal for the first time, it having been handed down to John as a family heirloom. 

A promise honoured – from a game where Charlie, yet again, kept a clean sheet, in a 1-0 victory over Hibernian in front of 82,000 fans.  

Aged 40, Charlie’s Celtic career finally came to a close in 1925 after twelve incredible years which had also seen him the first ever ‘keeper made Celtic captain. The affection that the Celtic support had for him was demonstrated when, playing away at Dundee in September 1922, they were singing his name soon after the game started. This was an absolute novelty at the time – and drew criticism from the Dundee Courier for being “an extraordinarily stupid idea”!  

However, Charlie wasn’t finished with football. His old team-mates Willie Crilly and Willie McStay had travelled to the USA few years earlier to ply their trade in the new professional leagues that had developed there. 

Charlie followed when he was signed up as player-manager for the New Bedford Whalers and crossed the Atlantic in June 1925, his family joining him the following year. He enjoyed success in the States too, with the Whalers coming second in the American Soccer League. 

In 1931 Charlie joined up with his former team-mates on their American tour. David Potter, in the club’s 125th anniversary history, records that he had a long chat with John Thomson about the art of goal- keeping. Tragically neither Celtic legend was to see out the decade: Charlie died in New York City on  27th March 1938 aged 52. His wife Ann survived him by an incredible 50 years, living to the grand old  age of 104 and passing away in Celtic’s centenary season.  

Charlie Shaw is, statistically, the greatest goalkeeper in Celtic’s long and illustrious history. With 236 shut-outs in 444 appearances, his clean sheet ratio is an incredible 53%. He beats, by some distance, Lisbon Lion Ronnie Simpson, on 48% with 188 appearances and the ‘keeper he was ultimately bought to take over from, Davie Adams, who sits on 43% after 291 appearances. 

Pat Bonner is the only man to keep goal more often than Charlie with 641 appearances and his clean sheet ratio of 39% puts him 4th on the list. John Thomson, who had 66 shut outs in only 188 appearances and could well have gone on to challenge Charlie’s stats, has a commendable 35% ratio. We’ll need to check on Craig Gordon’s stats to see where he fits in here.

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