World Champion Pat Clinton: How Billy McNeill Brought Me In To Toughen Up Celtic

Let Me Be Frank Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 52m

Former world champion Pat Clinton joins Frank McAvennie and Simon Houston for a brilliant look back at an extraordinary life in boxing. The former British, European and WBO world flyweight champion reveals how Celtic legend Billy McNeill brought him into the club to help toughen up his players, and why Pat reckons the current Celtic side could do with some of the same treatment today. Pat also tells the incredible story of the night he became world champion at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall in 1992. With his fight against Isidro Perez beginning to slip away, Pat was shown a photograph of his late…