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Right from my early days in school, I was always nuts on football. At that time, though, Celtic was not the side at the centre of my thoughts. My Dad Jimmy, born and reared in Leith, had always been a Hibbee, a good side in the 1950s and would occasionally travel through to see …
Games from the Past…..and Some Memorable Moments Sponsored by the Jim Craig CSC, Belfast
I first met Tam Gemmell in the spring of 1965. I had signed for the club in January 1965 and although I was still halfway through the fourth year of the five-year course in dentistry – and should have been attending medical classes at the Royal Infirmary most mornings – I managed to ‘dog-off’ sometimes …
‘Operation Lisbon’ the papers called it. It was their term for the departure of the group of first-team players who headed down to Seamill for a week to prepare for the European Cup final against Inter Milan the following Thursday.