75th anniversary of Gil Heron’s Celtic debut

‘From Jamaica to the Kingston Bridge, he was inclined to roam, Drawn by the flame of the beautiful game, Here was a brother who could not stay home.’ This was how Scottish singer-songwriter Michael Marra, in his song ‘Flight of the Heron’, described the pioneering career of Gilbert Saint Elmo (Gil) Heron, the first black footballer to play in a competitive match for Celtic and one of the first black players to feature in Scottish football...