THE Celtic View continues its look 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 another great striker from the 1970s, Harry Hood, who was a brilliant goalscorer, and netted a memorable Glasgow derby hat-trick, amongst his 121 goals for the Hoops.

Harry Hood
Appearances: 310
Goals: 121
Debut: St Mirren 0-3 Celtic; 29/03/1969

With his excellent close control and scoring prowess, Hood turned out to be yet another successful signing by Jock Stein. Celtic were blessed with an array of attacking talent at the time and his style perfectly complimented the likes of Bobby Lennox, Kenny Dalglish, Dixie Deans and Lou Macari.

They scored plenty of goals and were a major reason why Hood racked up an impressive haul of silverware with the Hoops. Over six seasons, Hood won six league titles, four Scottish Cups and two League Cups.

Hood was always there or thereabouts when the goals were tallied at the end of the term but in season 1970/71 he took top honours with 33 goals in his highest-scoring season.

On December 5, 1973 Celtic met Rangers in the League Cup semi-final and Hood netted a historic hat-trick. He opened the scoring in the 34th minute, only for the Ibrox side to equalise three minutes later. Hood scored again in the 55th minute and then once more in the 73rd to give Celtic a 3-1 win.

It was Celtic's first hat-trick in the derby since Stevie Chalmers’ triple in a 5-1 1965/66 league win and would remain the last such hat-trick until Moussa Dembele’s piece of perfection in the much more recent 5-1 win – the one at Celtic Park that is!

Tomorrow: Bobby Collins

Celtic View celebrates our greatest goalscorers - Harry Hood