THE Celtic View is looking at our 21 greatest goalscorers, which includes our current No.9, Leigh Griffiths, looking briefly at the careers of the men occupying the top scoring spots.

Today, we look at Tommy McInally, a prolific goalscorer who got off to the best possible start with a treble on his debut for the Hoops.

Tommy McInally
Appearances: 123
Goals: 126
Debut: Celtic 3-1 Clydebank; 16/08/1919

If you want to claim a place in the top 20 of Celtic goalscorers, what better way to do it than to net a debut hat-trick – and that’s exactly what Tommy McInally did. Indeed, when he left the club, McInally was in the top five Celtic scorers.

McInally had two spells with Celtic, the first between 1919-22 and the other from 1925-’28 with a spell at Third Lanark in between and he actually scored 30 goals in each of his first two seasons as a Celt.

However, the tally in his opening season came in 34 appearances while in the following term he scored the 30 goals over 40 games.

Although he played slightly more games in his second spell, 112 as opposed to 101, he was much more fruitful in front of goal in his opening period with the club. He netted 78 goals in his 101 games while that was almost halved to 42 goals in 112 games before he moved to Sunderland in 1928.

McInally also had a happy habit of scoring in the Glasgow Cup and Charity Cup games and he scored all of Celtic’s goals in the in the 1920/21 Charity Cup – the 2-0 semi-final win over Partick Thistle and the 2-0 final win over Rangers.

Tomorrow: Charlie Nicholas

Celtic View celebrates our greatest goalscorers - Tommy McInally