Bertie Auld RIP

Henry Irving said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-touching-bertie-auld-tribute-25457106.amp

Another Lisbon Lion gone

RIP

Link not working for me?

RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59284380

I have a vague memory that Bertie Auld was the fourth Celtic player sent off in their game against Estudiantes in 1968 (I think)? This was the kind-of world club championship of it's day with the European Cup holders taking on the South American equivalent. It happened very late in the game, and Celtic were losing anyway (4-2 I think?), but if he had gone off, the game would have been abandoned (as you had to have 8 on the pitch according to the rules). Auld refused to go off (no red cards back then!), so the ref ended up playing the last few minutes anyway. Crazy scenes.

RIP Bertie!

from Celtic reject to Celtic hero via Birmingham .. archetypal clever and combative Scots midfielder but just capped 3 times by Scotland .. R I P