[4] He played football for Queen's Park[5] before moving to England where he joined Lincoln City.
[2] He made his debut in December 1888 in the Combination, and played regularly over the next six years as the club won the Midland League title in its inaugural season, played in the Football Alliance, and was invited to join the newly formed Second Division of the Football League.
[6] The 1891 Census records Neill working as an accountant and lodging in the St Botolph's parish of Lincoln, in the household of former Lincoln City footballer Jack Strawson, also an accountant.
[3] Neill had a benefit match in 1895 against Burnley and by the end of the year he had emigrated to South Africa to set up business, and when the Boer War broke out he became a Trooper with the Driscoll's Scouts.
[4] This biographical article related to association football in Scotland, about a defender born in the 1860s, is a stub.