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was attacked by opposition supporters, being pushed over a pitch side wall before being kicked so badly he suffered a broken leg. His teammates rushed to help him, with
Hazlett receiving a punch to the face during the melee. The club folded at the end of the season with Hazlett featuring in its last
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Hazlett met his wife
Shirley while playing for Bury. The couple had two children, Lynne and John. After retiring from football, Hazlett lived in New Cross Road near his former club Millwall where he worked as a PE teacher and later as an education welfare officer for the
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and worked with local youth and senior teams into his 70s. In his later years, Hazlett discovered that he had been living with one of his kidneys functioning at only 15 per cent. He and his wife retired to
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After the end of the war, Plymouth had hoped for
Hazlett to remain but released him in order for the player to return to Scotland and join Celtic in February 1946. He made his professional debut in an
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and he made his debut in
September 1945. In November 1945, Celtic made a request to the Royal Navy for Hazlett to be excused from duty in order to play for the club in a Wartime fixture against
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that ended in violence after Celtic scored a late equaliser in a match that saw two men sent off and two
Linfield players taken off injured. At the end of the match, Celtic forward
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following an incident when its players were attacked by supporters of a rival team. After touring the United States in
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in June 1949 for a fee of £2,500. He made more than 100 appearances during a year spell with the club. In 1952, he played in a trial match for
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on 21 April 1949. He was also part of the side that toured the United States in 1949, scoring in a 4–2 victory over
Detroit Select at the
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and made only one further league appearance. At the end of the season, he was released by the club having made seven league appearances.
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to plan for the fixture. The tour was the last set of matches the club played before folding having resigned from the
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enough for him to complete a £5,000 transfer soon after. He made his debut for
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in 1953. He made more than 130 league appearances for Millwall before moving into non-league football.
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661:"End of an era as last great Celt Hazlett passes on"
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