Danny? Kenny? Maestro? Henrik? The Celtic twitter debate that quickly went viral

On a sunny Celtic-less Saturday one question seemed to strike a chord with fans on Twitter. 

Celtic author St Anthony has watched and chronicled the hoops since the early seventies, in mid-morning he speculated over who was the greatest player from their own club that they had viewed in the flesh. 

Billy McNeil, Jimmy Johnstone and Bobby Lennox survived Lisbon to stretch their playing days into the mid-seventies with Lennon featuring against Real Madrid in the 1980 European Cup quarter-final. 

Every decade has thrown up outstanding Celtic candidates but in the opinion of St Anthony there has been no-one to match or better Danny McGrain during his lifetime. 

For a couple of years Kenny Dalglish and McGrain were the headline acts at Celtic, while Dalglish moved on to Liverpool his team-mate stayed around for the 4-2 match, the 100 Scottish Cup Final against Dundee United and the Love Street title triumph. 

Paul McStay lit up some of the toughest seasons that the club endured, Tommy Burns and Roy Aitken spent more than a decade on the team-sheet before the more modern era started with Henrik Larsson with cases to be made for many of the Seville team. 

Scott Brown is the most recent candidate but over the next month or so there is the potential for some additions as fans put forward the names that impressed most. 

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