[11][35] He won a further two caps over the following week in Home Championship ties against Northern Ireland and England. On the other side of the coin, a string of right-backs like Jean Joel Perrier-Doumbe, Andreas Hinkel, Adam Matthews, Cha Du-Ri and Momo Sylla have failed to meet the required standard on a consistent basis (although Perrier-Doumbe did manage the winning goal in the 2007 Scottish Cup final). [28], McGrain continued to be a mainstay of the Celtic side during the early to mid 1980s; captaining them to a further three league championships, two Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup,[11] despite also suffering a broken leg in 1981. Indeed, McGrain – renowned for his fearless approach to stopping some of Scotland’s trickiest wingers – would admit in an interview with the Daily Record in 2011 that he had been quite scared when the diagnosis was made. [39], McGrain continued to play regularly for Scotland, now being fielded in his more familiar position at right-back, but missed Scotland's ill-fated 1978 World Cup campaign in Argentina through injury. He was the inspiration for the 1996 song “Sliding in like McGrain” by the Scottish band Big Wednesday. [56] He was an inaugural inductee to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2004,[57], McGrain is the vice patron of Football Aid, a Scottish charity fund-raising organisation.
The 50s were also the beginning of the Space Race, Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. Easily, McGrain’s undisputed class might never had come Celtic’s way had his boyhood heroes Rangers not passed up the opportunity to acquire his signature. The assumption, however, had been way off the mark, as McGrain was born in to a Protestant family, in 1950, and raised accordingly. [18] He was also voted Player of the Year by the Scottish Football Writers' Association.
[43], In November 1992 McGrain was appointed manager of Scottish Second Division side Arbroath. © 2020 Oview Digital. The 1950s is often viewed as "baby boom" and a period of conformity, when young and old alike followed group norms rather than striking out on their own. [16], McGrain played in eight consecutive internationals for Scotland[11] and was selected by Willie Ormond for the 22 man squad travelling to West Germany for the 1974 World Cup. They're flexible and good at improvising. [11] However, McGrain was diagnosed with diabetes immediately after the World Cup, but with the benefit of medication and a controlled diet and lifestyle, continued to play without adverse effect. [11] This transpired to be his final game for Scotland. Had there been any further delay in identification and treatment of his condition, the consequences could have proved fatal. He must have done – but they were thin on the ground in the seventies and eighties,” recalled Derek Rae.
His inclusion too, in a Celtic Greatest All-Time XI – voted for by the club’s passionate support – confirmed the esteem in which the Hoops’ following holds McGrain, almost as much for his gentlemanliness off the pitch as his gritty and exciting on-field prowess. He spent his final season of his career with Hamilton, where he helped win them promotion to the Premier Division. Ultimately, McGrain would make a full recovery from the skull injury but the the 62-time capped Scotland international would also miss 18 months of football, in the late seventies, due to a nagging foot injury which cost him a place at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, where a highly rated Scotland side – tipped as contenders to win the trophy by Dutch legend Rinus Michels – flopped in the group stages and would be eliminated at that stage after taking just one point from the opening two group matches against Peru and Iran, leaving the Scots’ needing to beat the Netherlands by three clear goals in the final group fixture to reach the competition’s second phase. Danny McGrain’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and his father’s name is under review. They are associated with a rejection of traditional values. And the latest right-back to fall short in a Celtic shirt was Saidy Janko, who had been signed from Manchester United but, after only ten appearances, was loaned to Barnsley this year. Over time though, McGrain would get to grips with having to inject insulin into his body twice daily and with the highly organised and disciplined lifestyle needed to cope with the diagnosis. [36] The game against England saw McGrain fielded in an unfamiliar role at left-back to accommodate another highly rated right-back, Sandy Jardine of Rangers. For the former Clyde F.C. Danny McGrain was born in 1950s. He sustained a fractured skull during a match at Brockville against Falkirk after a clash of heads with forward Doug Somner. McGrain would later have a short and rather fruitless attempt at management with lowly Arbroath before returning to Celtic, as an academy coach, in the late nineties and, more recently, as part of the first-team coaching staff. Danny McGrain (Scotland) 1. [13] He also rose through the ranks at international level, making two appearances for the Scotland Under 23 side in the spring of 1973, before finally making his debut at full international level for Scotland in May 1973 against Wales at Wrexham. "[54], In March 1983, McGrain received the MBE for services to Scottish football. [6] His younger brother Tommy was also a footballer who trained with Celtic as a teenager, but he did not break through to the first team and subsequently played for Dumbarton. Although a troublesome foot injury would deny McGrain a role in Scotland’s disappointing World Cup effort in 1978, he would return to the Celtic side for the title run-in, in 1979, helping Celtic clinch a dramatic title success on the final day of the season, at home against Rangers, who had been chasing back-to-back trebles. Fact Check: We strive for accuracy and fairness. A big ask, you might imagine.
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