Bertie Auld, who performed within the Celtic facet that lifted the European Cup in 1967, has died on the age of 83.
Finest identified for being one among Celtic’s Lisbon Lions, Auld additionally gained 5 league titles, three Scottish Cups and 4 League Cups at Parkhead.
The previous midfielder spent 4 years with Birmingham Metropolis between two spells with the Glasgow membership earlier than ending his enjoying days with Hibernian.
Capped thrice for Scotland, he went on to twice handle Partick Thistle in addition to Hibs, Hamilton Academical and Dumbarton.
“I do not suppose phrases can ever adequately describe what Bertie meant to the membership and our supporters. He was an enormous of a participant, an enormous of a person and fairly merely Mr Celtic,” stated Parkhead chairman Ian Bankier.
“He scaled the best of heights as a participant together with his expertise however it’s who he was as a person that made him a lot extra to us all.
“He enriched all our lives so tremendously together with his humour, his character and persona and for that we are going to eternally be grateful.”
As a participant, he made 279 appearances for Celtic and was a part of Jock Stein’s facet that made historical past as the primary from Britain to win the European Cup with a 2-1 victory over Inter Milan earlier than additionally shedding the 1970 ultimate to Feyenoord.
Auld made greater than 100 league appearances with Birmingham, additionally serving to the membership attain the 1960-61 Inter-Cities Festivals Cup, the place they misplaced to 4-2 to Roma.
As a supervisor, he twice gained Scotland’s second tier – with Thistle in 1976 and Hibs in 1981.
