George McCluskey


George McKinley Cassidy McCluskey is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a forward for Celtic, Leeds United, Hibernian, Hamilton Academical, Kilmarnock and Clyde. He represented Scotland up to under-21 level.
While with Celtic, he scored the winning goal in the 1980 Scottish Cup Final and won three Scottish League titles, scoring in the decisive last-day fixtures in 1979 and 1982 and finishing as top goalscorer in the latter season. In the autumn of his career in 1993, he helped Kilmarnock gain promotion to the top tier from the First Division, where they have remained since.
McCluskey is now a coach at Celtic's Youth Academy.

Personal life

George McCluskey's son Barry is registered blind and is a blind golf player. His younger brother, John, was also a footballer who played one match for Celtic in the early rounds of the European Cup in 1977 aged 16, becoming their youngest continental debutant before being forced to retire soon afterwards due to a thrombosis condition in his leg which endangered his health. It was also revealed some years later that John McCluskey had been one of the victims of the sexual abuse of child footballers which took place at Celtic Boys Club in the 1970s. The siblings are not related to Pat McCluskey who also played for Celtic in the 1970s.