
Football 50: Your Say
Welcome to Football 50 blog. lease leave your comments below. Ask any questions you have, make any observations or any corrections if you see a mistake.
I want to build a valid and valuable historic resource which involves not only the fly-on-the-wall recollections of myself and my team-mates, but your experiences as well.
I am very proud to have been involved with Celtic at the most successful time in our history, but like all football, success is not something that is achieved independently. Players, officials backroom staff, the media, fans friends and family are all part of a 5,000,000 piece jigsaw that was completed by Jock Stein during his tenure at the club.
So what have you got to say?
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I'm not sure if I was last man picked in Sammy or John's team (I was a learner) but I remember Sammy had electric pace and John was as solid as a rock. My team won the tournament and if anything got me hooked into football it was that fortnight. So thanks Sammy and John.I travelled to Sunderland that August on the Kent Star supporters bus from the Calton. We trounced them and after the game I went for a drink with my pal who suggested we try the Newcastle Brown Ale. Three of them and I'm four sheets. On bus home my much older cousin who was visiting from the States to see his mum came up to chat. I'm incoherent and struggling to stop being sick. I think he realised and went back to his seat with a smile. I'm sure the story went round the auntie family who at the time stayed in 4 different closes in Bain St.Years later I'm in a Barbados night club chatting to Gary Sobers (as one does) who turned out to know Jim Baxterl from their time in Nottingham. I mention to him that Jim is serialising his life story in the Sunday Mail. Sobers, who was Jim's drinking and gambling partner, grabs me by the arm and says "Has he mentioned me?" "Not yet" I say "but if he does I'll have the only copy on the island" (My father in law, one of the Celtic Cine Club stalwarts sent me the paper every week).Nice to rekindle memories Jim and record them before they get lost forever, like tears in rain. Cue Blade Runner. :)https://youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU