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Article: In memory of a fabulous faither; The Simpson story was the stuff of every boy's fantasy.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2004
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Byline: BRIAN SCOTT
WHEN it came to marketing the game of football, Celtic's most celebrated manager, Jock Stein, ranked as a past master.
Rarely could this have been better illustrated than on the last day of season 1970-71, with Clyde due to visit Celtic Park for a match whose outcome was all too predictable.
The wily Stein contrived to turn the fixture into a festival, by promising to reunite the Lisbon Lions, who had achieved their hallowed place in history four years earlier by winning the European Cup.
A crowd of 35,000, some 12,000 up on Celtic's previous home gate, gathered to glory in the occasion which saw the spry Ronnie ...