Our enormous thanks to John Hughes for spending time on the blog this morning. He was at Celtic throughout a very special time, making his anecdotes and stories all the more valuable.
Here’s an extract from his book, Yogi Bare, which is due out soon:
“Jock Stein and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye. I recall receiving a ferocious verbal volley after a game against Hibs at Easter Road in January 1968. My offence? I went to offer my condolences to their right-back Bobby Duncan in their dressing room.
Unfortunately, Bobby had suffered a broken leg when I slid it to try to block the ball. His ankle got caught up in my outstretched leg and he collapsed to the turf in obvious pain. It was a complete accident, I hasten to add. The conditions were slippy that afternoon and we just collided with neither of us able to pull out.
Unhappily, the defender had to be stretchered off and I felt sick. I never went out to injure an opponent; not once. Frankly, I wouldn’t have known how to, but I did know some players who were well versed in the black arts. No names. No pack drills. No lawyer’s letters! It just wasn’t the right-back’s day because he had also sliced a clearance into his net to give us a second minute lead.
Bobby Lennox added a second shortly afterwards and it was game over. But Bobby Duncan’s game, unfortunately, didn’t last until the ninetieth minute and I headed for the home dressing room as soon as the referee blew for time-up. I was concerned for the player who, although he was a gritty campaigner, was never dirty.
I mixed with the Hibs players and told Bobby I genuinely hoped he would make a fast recovery. He accepted my good wishes and I thought that was the end of it.
Suddenly, though, Colin Stein, who would later join Rangers, barged through his team-mates to have a go at me. He accused me of deliberately trying to injure Bobby. I wasn’t having any of that and told him to get lost. I didn’t stop to think I was actually in the Hibs dressing room.
The usual pushing and shoving ensued before I was thrown out into the corridor. Jock wanted to know what all the commotion was about. I gave him my version of events and he blew up.
‘What do you want to do that for?’ he bellowed. ‘It’s bad enough the boy’s got a broken leg, but you’ve got to go and make it worse!’ I protested my innocence, by which time he was in full flow. ‘What a daft thing to do.’ And so on.
I thought it had been a meaningful gesture from one professional to another, but Jock, clearly, disagreed. Sometimes you couldn’t win with that man.
Please don’t get me wrong. This is not a Big Yogi versus Big Jock chapter in my life story. I just want the supporters to be aware of the facts. For a start, I think he did me an enormous favour by pushing me out from centre-forward to the left wing.
I was happy enough in the central role, but Jock thought I could be more effective when I was taking passes on the half-turn. I would be off and running within seconds of the pass arriving at my feet. In the main striker’s role, though, I would often have my back to goal. Controlling the ball in those circumstances would add vital seconds onto the manoeuvre. A centre-half could be breathing down my neck, forcing me to push the ball back for a midfielder. At outside-left, though, I could skin a right-back if he got too close. And once I was away, there was no stopping me.”
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What a fabulous day, off oot to view this beautiful country
CQN turns into tabloid advertising……………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Leftclick you about ?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TD67 very amusing but nothing to do with spelling I’m afraid mostly about plurals or grammar. If I was constantly making spelling mistakes I would be quite happy to be corrected. If however I thought I knew best ,well I guess I’d just go on making them. All the best this Easter weekend. Hail Hail Hebcelt
weet weet weet(GBWO)
00:09 on 18 April, 2014
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=15110&cpage=6#comment-2142197
A sad tale mate
HH
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Is anyone suprised at this sad event, If IRC some of them were on RM boasting that fans had been battered, A sad state of affairs whenever that mob are involved.
leftclicktic we are all neil lennon
09:04 on 18 April, 2014
You have mail.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Jobo Baldie
08:15 on
18 April, 2014
hoopy-do –
Firstly, define warm – it’s all subjective. Secondly, you’re off to the ‘bacon roll shop’ on Good Frida???! ;-)
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Ok,
guilt trip accepted
toast n cheese it is
(note – its not roasted cheese, or toasted cheese, only acceptable descriptions are toast n cheese or cheese on toast)
and for the avoidance of doubt, no, its not warm outside, its baltic. i suppose the frost on the car roofs should have been the giveaway!
Maestro
Very disturbing account. The security people at Rangers should have got involved to try and identify the thug. Also the exit strategy was all wrong as you would think the experience we have would encourage a proactive and pragmatic approach to getting the fans safely away from the ground.
Who’s today’s “Guest”
Hope it’s Johnny Divers……..how’s that pronounced….Divurs or Diveers
Paddy T
PADDY TURNER
There are diverse ways of pronouncing his name.
Apollos to Johnny and to the blog for that one….
hebcelt
09:03 on 18 April, 2014
TD67 very amusing but nothing to do with spelling I’m afraid mostly about plurals or grammar. If I was constantly making spelling mistakes I would be quite happy to be corrected. If however I thought I knew best ,well I guess I’d just go on making them. All the best this Easter weekend. Hail Hail Hebcelt
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Yea I got that at the start, and then it goes on to spelling and pronounceable words, like.
Tough
Bough
Cough
Dough
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Meat
Great
Threat
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Card
Ward.
Similar spelling but totally different pronounce action .
Well, I’ve just watched the video posted by Petec at 2:12, now off to pick up euros and flight to Florence for the weekend later on. If Carlsberg did Fridays……..
TD67
Ergo nothing to do with the spelling police perhaps the pronunciation police. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Phyllis Dietrichson
01:24 on 18 April, 2014
‘Saint Stivs – Do you have a favourite hun?
Willie Henderson by a country mile – not a bigoted bone in his body and one of the guys who visited Jinky most towards the end.’
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Agreed.
A further letter received from my MSP James Kelly re the Offensive Behaviour Act…
He along with a growing list of groups are keeping the pressure on for a review of this shoddy piece of legislation. Despite the calls from Msp’s, Football Clubs, Stirling University, Legal experts and many others Roseanna Cunningham has described the calls for an early review as ‘nonsensical.’
She has replied to one of my letters but her ignorance of Scottish football supporters is palpable.
It seems the criminalisation of our support will continue.
Meanwhile getting physically assaulted at Ibrox appears to be too difficult to investigate and too troublesome for the authorities and our free press to even acknowledge.
New patio set fully and correctly assembled and sitting out the back reading CQN and sipping a black coffee (with no meat). Good Friday right enough.
With the rumour circulating that Graham Wallace is going to get a £300,000 bonus over at Ibrokes it makes me think where does all this money come from ?Although people say they are going to go into Administration they are still ploughing on. H.H.
When you think of some of the goings on over at thems place, guys falling down the marble staircase, little row down the Clyde, renting of the biggest shredding machine in the world,on an on an on, it’s never ending, you honestly think the cops are worried about a Dundee Untd fan getting a doin? Gimmi a break Ffs.
Mrs Burghbhoy has just advised me that our traditional Good Friday fish supper for dinner is off the agenda as she wants to loose a few pounds.
Cannae believe it’s an omelette for dinner!!!!
“Captured” ……………..Quick News…………
….missus has just said she wants to go to THE MARKET………..
Good Friday?
;)
Hebcet
Your not getting it mate, it’s how hard it is for someone learning it, you and I fine, but a new person to the country told this is how card is spelled spell ward! Word? This is how dough is spelled, spell tough,Tuf, spell cough! Coff? It’s the learning it, and explaining it, it’s not easy for new people that’s the point.
67heaven
Cheers mate!
I feel better now :)
TD67 if you had’nt posted that rather
spiteful remark about the DU fan who was attacked I would have agreed with you about our quirky grammar. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Sevcomedian reaction to rumours of Minty’s return:
“Depending on what the terms of any proposal are, then anyone wanting to put money into our club is more than welcome. He’s probably got a big guilt trip going and it may well be conducive to us.”
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“I would take him back just for his ‘if they spend a fiver we will spend a tenner’ line”
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“Hopefully he puts a few more quid in, and gets the likes of Dave King on board to put another few quid in.”
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“Things were a lot more stable under him.”
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“he wants in on the money machine.”
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“A disgrace of a man whose name is not deserving of the honour that it has been lavished.”
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“Does a criminal revisit the scene of the crime ?”
tonydonnelly67
09:41 on
18 April, 2014
Hebcet
Your not getting it mate, it’s how hard it is for someone learning it, you and I fine, but a new person to the country told this is how card is spelled spell ward! Word? This is how dough is spelled, spell tough,Tuf, spell cough! Coff? It’s the learning it, and explaining it, it’s not easy for new people that’s the point.
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well if we hadnt kicked the romans out we would have a much more straightforward inflected language which jonny foreigner would pick up much easier
curse those angles and saxons and other sporadic interlopers (what’s latin for sporadic interloper?)
Pronunciation police
Please tell me why Ghoti is not pronounced the same was as Fish?
Jimbo67 supporting and praying for Oscar Knox
Is this the start of the great language debate?? Hail Hail Hebcelt
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Morning all.
Beautiful sunny day on the South Ayrshire coast, but rather nippy.
Wife and daughter away to work – when the cat’s away…!!!
HH!!
tonydonnelly67
Yep, languages are funny things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV1_KlLckA
hebcelt
09:49 on 18 April, 2014
TD67 if you had’nt posted that rather
spiteful remark about the DU fan who was attacked I would have agreed with you about our quirky grammar. Hail Hail Hebcelt
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you need to learn to read a post properly, I was having a go at the cops, and the authority’s,not the Dundee Untd. Fan, my point was no bad things happen to thems, now go back and read it slowwwwwly ;) and stop making things up.
Monagahan1900 –
The first of those quotes sums up everything that’s wrong with them –
“…..then anyone wanting to put money into our club is more than welcome…..”
winorcheatatallcostsTRIFT
Exclusive!
I have obtained a copy of Graham Wallace’s 120 day review.
The covering letter reads:
“Dear The Rangers,
You’re skint. Stop spending so much money.
Yours,
Graham
PS – You owe me £300,000. Payment is due immediately and I expect it before the cash runs out.”
TD67 Apology due I’ve reread and have misinterperated what you wrote. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Morning Timland from a warm and sunny hun free mountain valley.
Just as expected from police scotland re the D Utd fan.
Geez, there is corporate and banking fraud going on that would fear you, yet they do sfa.
HH
I think that thems are trading illegally on the stoke market and the only thing stoping them from getting done is the “Institution” word, they should have been pulled at least twice in the last year, and don’t give me this awe naw they would not get away with that, three words….Lord NImmo Smith..
Sevcomedian sympathy with the Orcs of Linfield:
“Irish FA bans ‘Billy Boys’ song for Linfield fans
Banning them singing The Billy Boys
Notice how it is always OUR traditions that are getting ****ed..?”
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“ts beyond belief and goes to show the eradication of PUL culture”
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” What started against us as the banning of this song, led to us playing in the lowest division, after they campaigned to destroy us.”
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“The tune is “Marching through Georgia” and I believe, someone can correct me if I’m wrong, that the Ulster Scot immigrants played a part in it’s origins.”
You’re right Sammy, you’re right……and this line is their very contribution:
“How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound,”
Hebcet
Not a problem, it’s easy done ;)
Thanks to all involved in getting Big Yogi on line. These trips down memory lane are great as they remind me not just of the games but also the family, friends and other aspects of the times. Thanks as well to those who put on the highlights of the 1965 League Cup Final. Great to see that again. By the way someone mentioned a disallowed goal in that game. That was not the case. If you look again you will see that Bobby Lennox’s shot actually goes into the side netting. Realised too how much football has changed. I know it was only brief highlights of a frantic game but did you notice how many players were happy just to punt the ball up the park. No slow build up from the back.
A couple of posters mentioned the Glasgow Cup game V Rangers that took place the week after the 1965 Scottish Cup win V Dunfermline. My memories of that game are not that we were a bit more physical but that we were a wee bit lucky. The Rangers keeper Billy Ritchie got an arm injury and as there were no substitutes then he was put out on the wing while big Davy Provan went in goals. Wullie Henderson gave rangers the lead but 2 late goals from Bertie Auld ( I think) gave us the win. The second was one that a “real” goalie would likely have saved. I was actually very happy. For 5 years I had never seen Celtic get any luck in Rangers games. This was big Jock’s first old firm game and no matter the circumstances we had won. That was important. An omen that the tide was turning.