John Watters was a highly rated schoolboy forward who was snapped up from St Roch’s by Celtic on provisional forms in 1935.

His Hoops debut came in a 2-0 league win at Arbroath on November 26th 1938 in place of the ill Malky MacDonald. He then went on an impressive scoring run and was in the Celtic side that faced Rangers in front of a world record crowd of 118,730 at Ibrox on New Year’s Day 1939.

Both his and Celtic’s form dipped though and with the Second World War looming large John’s Celtic career was due to come to a premature end.

In 1940 he signed up for the Royal Navy and would take part in the D-Day invasion. After signing up for the Navy he never played another first team game for Celtic and he was released in 1947 after making a total of 19 appearances and scoring 5 goals.