Tommy McInally was a star of Celtic's team of the 1920s. He was a tremendous player with pace, trickery, passing ability and a cannonball shot - yet his record of only one Scottish Cup medal, two Scottish League medals and two Scottish caps was a profoundly disappointing one for a man of his talent. This is a lacking record which was mainly due to Tommy's self-destructive tendencies. This book deals with his two spells at Celtic - the team that he loved - and his sojourns at Third Lanark and Sunderland before he went on his travels and died in obscurity in 1955. He has now been dead for over fifty years, but questions still remain about Celtic's Bad Bhoy - 'the boy wonder', who had the potential to have been the greatest player of them all.

About the Author
David Potter is a semi-retired teacher who taught Classics and Spanish at Glenrothes High School for thirty-two years, before taking up a part-time post at Osborne House School in Dysart. He lives in Kirkcaldy. He is the author of sixteen books about football and cricket. He is married with three grown-up children and two grandchildren.

Reviews

Impeccably researched as usual, David Potter's latest book - 'Tommy McInally' - is written in the author's inimitable style where he not only entertains but fills the reader's mind subliminally with a whole range of fascinating facts about Celtic's wayward son, Tommy McInally.  One casual glance between the covers and you are inexorably drawn into the unfolding story of the irrepressible renegade that was McInally, his world of football and his life itself as his fascinating, turbulent career and personality are revealed through David Potter's skillfully-wrought narrative.  This book leaves the reader in no doubt as to why Tommy McInally was regarded so fondly and with pride by those Celtic supporters of yore.  This book is addictive so forget the posh-nosh, you'll just have enough time left of the day to nip out for a quick fish supper while finishing off the last page in the queue.

- Marie Rowan
  Author of Dan Doyle: The Life and Death of a Wild Rover

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