Eamonn Brophy spent eight years at Celtic but left the club before he ever made a Scottish Premiership appearance.
Eamonn Brophy will have been chomping at the bit as Kilmarnock welcomed Celtic to Rugby Park on Sunday.
The 22-year-old has been one of Steve Clarke’s most impressive performers this season, scoring nine goals in 20 Scottish Premiership appearances for Killie. He is energetic, direct and blessed with a terrific strike from range – so Brophy should have been confident of causing problems to a Celtic defence that was brutally exposed by Valencia just three days earlier in the Europa League.
And the fact that Brophy started his career at Celtic, spending eight years in the club’s academy before being released in 2011, added an interesting little subplot to proceedings.
But did the Scotland U21 international do enough to highlight Celtic’s mistake? Well he was certainly one of Kilmarnock’s most lively players in a game they were rather unfortunate to lose in the dying seconds thanks to a deflected Scott Brown winner.
The Glasgow-born forward caused no end of problems to the visitor’s defence and could even have scored the opener if it wasn’t for a desperate block from Dedryck Boyata.
Brophy might not have got the goal his efforts arguably deserved but Celtic could do worse than to consider offering him a second chance at Parkhead one day soon.
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