Daily Record

FOOTBALL GIANT

- BY KEITH McLEOD

A HANDFUL of mourners will today attend the funeral of a giant of Junior football who lost his life to Covid-19. Franny McNeill – known to many in the sport as “Mr Pollok FC” – died on April 2 at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, aged 70.

Under normal circumstan­ces, more than 500 would have wanted to pay their respects to father-of-two and grandad-of-one Franny.

But because of new rules on funerals, only 10 people will be

 ??  ?? ‘MR POLLOK’ Franny McNeill
‘MR POLLOK’ Franny McNeill

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom