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The night Red Star Belgrade were hammered by “Johnstone The Tornado”
The Celtic Star · Nov 13, 2021

The night Red Star Belgrade were hammered by “Johnstone The Tornado”

The night Red Star Belgrade were hammered by “Johnstone The Tornado”
The night Red Star Belgrade were hammered by “Johnstone The Tornado”

On this day in 1968 Jock Stein manufactured a 5-1 win against Red Star Belgrade by playing on his superstar’s fear of flying. Here’s what happened in the European Cup encounter and then Historian David Potter tells the story below. ‘I’m no feart o’ flying just crashing,’ Jinky Jimmy Johnstone was afraid of flying...

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