In Ancient Athens it was said of a woman that “her greatest virtue is never to be spoken about either for good or ill”. Such prejudiced, even misogynistic statements are rightly protested about by feminists, but the same sort of thing can be said about Celtic’s left backs. Willie Orr, Jamie Weir, Joe Dodds, Hugh Hilley, Alec Rollo and to a lesser extent William “Peter” McGonagal fall into this category of filling the role adequately, doing what they had to do and seldom hitting the highlights...
The Celt · Jul 14, 2020