Janefield Street · Jun 17, 2019
Billy McNeill, a Knighthood, and an out-of-touch Archbishop
Before his death from a long battle with Dementia, Celtic’s greatest ever captain Billy McNeill was tipped for a knighthood by Leo Cushley, the Archbishop of St.Andrews and Edinburgh.Cushley believed that the 1967 European Cup-winning captain should have been given a knighthood before his death in April and had enlisted the support of the club and the Lord Provost of Glasgow, according to STV News.Cushley, speaking to STV, said: “It would have completed something that has warmed the hearts of many people...
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