Francis Haffey was a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 goalkeeper for Glasgow's Celtic F.C.

Celtic F.C.

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

 and for the Scottish national team.

Haffey, remembered as one of Celtic's great and more eccentric keepers, played more than two hundred matches for his club.

Haffey is most often associated with Scotland's

Scotland national football team

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 9-3 loss to England

England national football team

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 at Wembley in 1961 - giving birth to the gag: 'What's the time? Nearly ten past Haffey'. It would be Haffey's final match for Scotland.

After breaking an ankle in the Glasgow Cup

Glasgow Cup

The Glasgow Cup is a knockout football tournament open to teams from Glasgow. It was competed for annually by senior Glasgow clubs from 1887 until 1988. It is now competed for between the youth teams of Rangers, Celtic, Clyde, Partick Thistle and Queen's Park.It is dominated by the Old Firm of...

 against Partick Thistle

Partick Thistle F.C.

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 in November 1963, effectively ending his Celtic career, he left the following October to play for Swindon Town

Swindon Town F.C.

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. Soon thereafter, Haffey moved to Australia

Australia

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, where after a shorter career as a footballer there he found his way into the entertainment business as a cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

 singer.

Haffey made 201 appearances for Celtic. He had 61 clean-sheets. He won two caps for Scotland

Scotland national football team

The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872...

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External links

• Frank Haffey, Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
• Short Article on a Photograph of Haffey
• Interview with Haffey from The Scotsman
  The Scotsman
  The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....