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How Celtic Football Club rose from mediocrity in the late 1950s and early 1960s to win the European Cup in 1967 and subsequently become one of the world's most formidable sides
Entering uncharted territory, this book investigates the story of Celtic in the 1960s, the defining decade in the club's extraordinary 125-year history. Celtic strode majestically into the history books in 1967 as the first British club to conquer Europe, and the iconic photograph of captain Billy McNeill holding aloft the glittering European Cup in the Lisbon sunshine is the defining image of that footballing era. Yet at the start of the decade, Celtic were a team plagued by defeats and in disarray both on and off the field. What brought about their remarkable transformation? In an attempt to unravel one of football’s greatest mysteries, players of the era—good, bad, and indifferent—are interviewed in depth. The author has spoken with George Connelly, Harry Hood, Evan Williams, Tommy Callaghan, Billy McNeill, Bertie Auld, Tommy Gemmell, Davie Hay, and Danny McGrain. Sweeping through the 1960s and beyond, this is the fascinating, previously untold story of how a proud club rose from grief to glory, from dismay to delight.
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Alex Gordon is a former Sunday Mail sports editor and chief sports sub-editor of the Daily Record, and has also worked as a columnist for World Soccer Monthly and as the Scottish correspondent for France Football and L’Equipe. He has co-authored a number of sports books, including A Bhoy Called Bertie.
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"This book is as close to being in the Celtic dressing room in the sixties as you'll get." —Tommy Gemmell, Celtic, 1961–1971
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- PublisherMainstream Publishing
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1780575890
- ISBN 13 9781780575896
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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