Celtic FC · Nov 15, 2021
Jim Craig remembers his friend and fellow Lisbon Lion
It was the evening of March 1st, 1967, the venue a football stadium in a place called Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, the occasion a quarter-final tie in the European Cup. Celtic were about to run out into a stadium lit by brilliant floodlights to face a team called Vojvodina. To say I was nervous is something of an understatement. I had already played two European matches – home ties against Go-Ahead Deventer and Aarhus – but we were ahead in those games at the time and I found them straightforward...
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