Joe was a Celtic stalwart in the dark years of the Second World War as the club struggled to come to terms with war-time football in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Joe was a miner, and therefore was in reserved occupations and so permanently available subject to the usual problems of transport. He was a man of
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
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| 1 | Hearts | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Hibernian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Celtic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Falkirk | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Livingston | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Rangers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | St Mirren | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Aberdeen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
