Quality Street Gang (Celtic F.C.)
{{short description|Term for the Celtic reserve team of late 1960s}}
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The Quality Street Gang was a term used by the Scottish media to describe the Celtic reserve team of the late 1960s. Several of the group eventually replaced members of the Lisbon Lions team that had won the European Cup in 1967. George Connelly, Kenny Dalglish, Davie Hay, Danny McGrain, Lou Macari and Paul Wilson all went on to win major honours at Celtic and were capped by Scotland.{{cite web|last=Dykes|first=Paul John|title=The Quality Street Gang: The Greatest Team That Never Was|url=http://inbedwithmaradona.com/journal/2014/3/23/the-quality-street-gang-the-greatest-celtic-team-that-never-was|publisher=In Bed with Maradonna|access-date=6 April 2015|date=24 March 2014}}
In August 1968, Celtic Reserves needed to defeat Partick Thistle Reserves by at least seven goals to win their Reserve League Cup section over Rangers Reserves. Celtic won 12–0, with Macari scoring four goals. Later that same year Scotland manager Bobby Brown asked Celtic manager Jock Stein to supply players to provide opposition for a warm-up practice match. Stein sent his young reserve side,{{cite news|title=Young Celtic players face World Cup men|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ANs9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=9UcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3974%2C1395528|access-date=6 April 2015|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=8 October 1968|page=6}} and they went on to defeat a full strength Scotland international team (including Colin Stein and Billy Bremner) 5–2. In August 1970, Celtic fielded several of their so-called Quality Street Gang youths in the Glasgow Cup Final against a full strength Rangers side, winning 3–1.{{cite news|last=Parkinson|first=Jim|title=Youthful Celtic win back Glasgow Cup from Rangers|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i5FAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-6QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2024%2C1690516|access-date=6 April 2015|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=11 August 1970|page=6}}
List of members of the Quality Street Gang
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- Davie Cattanach{{cite book|first=Alex |last=Gordon|title=Celtic: The Awakening: From East End Misfits to European Masters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUSyTSShqn4C&pg=PT201|date=14 March 2013|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|isbn=978-1-78057-709-8|pages=201–}}
- George Connelly
- Kenny Dalglish
- Vic Davidson
- John Gorman{{cite book|first1=Michael |last1=Grant|first2=Rob |last2=Robertson|title=The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdG8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT60|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Birlinn Limited|isbn=978-0-85790-084-5|pages=60–}}
- Davie Hay{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic-legends-lift-lid-on-quality-street-gang-1-3134768 | title=Celtic legends lift lid on Quality Street Gang |work=The Scotsman |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=6 April 2015 |last=Puttullo |first=Alan}}
- Lou Macari{{cite news|url=http://www.irishpost.co.uk/sport/one-for-the-bhoys/quality-street-legends-score-new-celtic-related-film-paradise |title=Quality Street legends to score in new Celtic-related film |work=Irish Post |date=7 March 2014 |access-date=6 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522232914/http://www.irishpost.co.uk/sport/one-for-the-bhoys/quality-street-legends-score-new-celtic-related-film-paradise |archive-date=22 May 2015 }}
- Pat McCluskey
- Danny McGrain
- Brian McLaughlin
- Pat McMahon
- Billy Murdoch
- Jimmy Quinn
- Paul Wilson{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/interview-paul-wilson-on-stein-celtic-and-racial-abuse-in-the-1970s-1-1901659 |title=Interview: Paul Wilson on Stein, Celtic and racial abuse in the 1970s |work=The Scotsman |date=20 October 2011 |access-date=6 April 2015 |last=Smith |first=Andrew}}
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! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Player ! colspan="2"|League ! colspan="2"|Scottish Cup ! colspan="2"|League Cup ! colspan="2"|Europe ! colspan="2"|Total | ||||||||
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals || Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Danny McGrain | 439 | 4 | 60 | 1 | 106 | 3 | 54 | 0
! 659 !! 8 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Kenny Dalglish | 204 | 112 | 30 | 11 | 60 | 35 | 28 | 9
! 322 !! 167 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|George Connelly | 136 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 63 | 4 | 30 | 3
! 254 !! 14 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|David Hay | 130 | 6 | 30 | 1 | 45 | 5 | 25 | 0
! 230 !! 12 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Paul Wilson | 129 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 48 | 15 | 20 | 6
! 212 !! 55 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Pat McCluskey | 115 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 40 | 1 | 20 | 0
! 189 !! 12 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Lou Macari | 58 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 8
! 102 !! 56 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Vic Davidson | 39 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0
! 55 !! 21 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Jimmy Quinn | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0
! 41 !! 1 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Brian McLaughlin | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1
! 19 !! 2 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Davie Cattanach | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0
! 19 !! 1 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|Pat McMahon | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0
! 6 !! 5 |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|John Gorman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
! 1 !! 0 |
Book and documentary
In 2013 a book The Quality Street Gang, by Paul John Dykes was published and plans announced for a documentary with filming due to commence in June 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/celtic-quality-street-gang-to-be-in-documentary-1-3351210 |title=Celtic Quality Street Gang to be in documentary |work=The Scotsman |date=24 March 2014 |access-date=6 April 2015 |first=Bathgate |last=Stuart}}{{cite web |url=http://www.celticfc.net/news/4871?item=4871 |title=Quality tale of a Quality gang |publisher=www.celticfc.net | access-date=6 April 2015}}
References
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