The Dead Thread

[Eggs]

Billy McNeill,former Celtic player

....aged 79, apparently another of those older footballers who suffered with dementia.

Famous team that Celtic one that won the European Cup, I think all the players were born within 30 miles of Glasgow. How times change, but his name will certainly live on.

 

[jaycee]

....aged 79, apparently another of those older footballers who suffered with dementia.

Famous team that Celtic one that won the European Cup, I think all the players were born within 30 miles of Glasgow. How times change, but his name will certainly live on.

Also won every competition they entered I think

 

[tommytowne]

Billy McNeill,former Celtic player

Him and his Celtic team gave this then, fifteen year old one of my favourite and happy football moments.

 

[Blues Harp]

Him and his Celtic team gave this then, fifteen year old one of my favourite and happy football moments.

Spot on...I was nearly 15 when the famous Lisbon lions won the European Cup....of course the first British side to do so...magnificent player and captain was Billy. Don't make them like that anymore.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I saw him score the last minute winner for Celtic against Dunfermline in the 1965 Cup final. 108,000 crowd.. That was the start of Celtic's golden era.

 

[Alan Whittle]

I believe his nickname was "Caesar" with very good reason. An absolute colossus of a defender and by all accounts a very good man. RIP.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

RIP Billy.
Never see your like again.
A very very sad day for Celtic Football Club.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Some "gangland" biff from T2 trainspotting is dead. Sadly misread that Bradley Walsh was dead for a sec, oh well.

 

[tommytowne]

Spot on...I was nearly 15 when the famous Lisbon lions won the European Cup....of course the first British side to do so...magnificent player and captain was Billy. Don't make them like that anymore.

Being an impressionable teenager at the time, I fell for every last bit of the lead up to the match, whereby Inter were cast in a very non PC way, as typical swarthy, greasy, dirty cheating Italians. All against the pale, hard working working class heroes.
Hope I don't get another ban for this.

 

[hallamblue]

Being an impressionable teenager at the time, I fell for every last bit of the lead up to the match, whereby Inter were cast in a very non PC way, as typical swarthy, greasy, dirty cheating Italians. All against the pale, hard working working class heroes.
Hope I don't get another ban for this.

To be fair, they did bribe a referee to get us knocked out of the European Cup, and didn't they do something similar to Derby under Clough (or was that Juve?) so it wasn't just a stereotype.

 

[tommytowne]

To be fair, they did bribe a referee to get us knocked out of the European Cup, and didn't they do something similar to Derby under Clough (or was that Juve?) so it wasn't just a stereotype.

I did remember one or two whispers about a bung being taken by officials.
Then they were at it again against RS by allowing a couple of dubious goals at the San Siro.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Also won every competition they entered I think

Even the Glasgow Cup

 

[summerisle]

They just can't help themselves the tossers.

 

[summerisle]

 

[chrismpw]

Dag nabbit. One of my favourite characters.