McNeill Of Tranent

George McNeill was born in Tranent, a small Scottish mining town. He began his career as a part-time professional footballer, signing for Hibernian at sixteen. Giving up football to concentrate on athletics, he was banned from running as an amateur due to his professional football career, meaning he could never compete in the Commonwealth or Olympic Games. Despite this, he went on to break the professional world record and win a professional world sprint title in 1972. Yet his successes are mostly unknown by the wider public...until now.

Told by McNeill himself, this one man show in collaboration with Wonder Fools, depicts his remarkable true story with hilarious anecdotes, archival film footage and music.