Original sentence: At club level though for Celtic he never fully established himself as a first choice striker with veteran strikers such as Frank McAvennie and Charlie Nicholas being preferred and so he was transferred to Portsmouth F.He played 113 times for the club, scoring 36 goals
Edited sentence: At club level though for Celtic he never fully established himself as a first choice striker with veteran strikers such as Frank McAvennie and Charlie Nicholas being prefered and so he was transferred to Portsmouth F.He played 113 times for the club, scoring 36 goals during the days when the club had a biscuit-tin board mentality.It is fair to say that Creaney could have gone on to have a successful career but was somewhat wasted by his retirement at 31