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Jim Craig remembers his friend and fellow Lisbon Lion
Celtic FC · Nov 15, 2021

Jim Craig remembers his friend and fellow Lisbon Lion

Jim Craig remembers his friend and fellow Lisbon Lion
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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