Old Photograph Pat Crerand Scotland

Old photograph of Pat Crerand who was born on 19 February 1939 to Irish immigrants in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Michael Crerand, was from Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, Ireland, and his mother, Sarah Boyle, was from Gweedore, County Donegal, where Crerand spent much of his childhood. His father was killed on 12 March 1941 in a German air raid on John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank, where he was working the fire watch on the night of his death; Crerand was two years old. Pat became a Scottish former footballer. After six years at Celtic he moved to Manchester United in England, where he was a member of teams that won the English League title twice, the FA Cup and European Cup. He also gained 16 international caps for Scotland.



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