Group: uk.sport.football.clubs.celtic · Group Profile
Author: FishSupperFishSupper Date: May 15, 2008 15:09
> "FishSupper" sea.com> wrote in message
> news:tOmdnQFYzc-wjbHVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com...>>> "dü the hüsker" now.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:_FRWj.2514$4N1.1150@newsfe17.ams2...>>>>
>>>>A true gentleman.
>>>
>>> A Celtic great and a great man.
>>
>> I came into contact with him a few years back and I can tell you from
>> personal experience he was a top quality human being. A real class act.
>> He will be missed.
>
> Thank you FS. He really was a great man. I'm not ashamed to say I've shed
> a few tears today. I thought he was great as a player, such a sweet left
> foot, can remember him now in my mind's eye counter-attacking with verve
> and flair at Parkhead. Tommy Twists, Tommy Turns, Tommy Burns. And as
> manager he helped restored faith in the club, almost destroyed by
> infighting and six years without a trophy. He ran Walter Smith close for
> niar. Wasn't to be. But few people touch him in being Celtic through and
> through and also such a great individual. Respected by both sides of the
> Old Firm. As Tommy Dornan pretty much said today on Sky Sports, he
> reinvents the term Celtic Minded. Certainly TB is someone to look up to in
> his professional and personal life. A great loss to Scottish life and
> culture.
The saddest thing is that his death happened today when all the media focus
is on Manchester - which means that rather than concentrating on the man and
celebrating his life, the media is spending most of its energy on the sort
of scum who aren't fit to wash TB's car.
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