Tributes have poured in for Celtic’s European Cup-winning captain and former manager Billy McNeill following his death at the age of 79.
As the leader of Jock Stein’s famed Lisbon Lions, he became the first British player to ever hoist aloft the ‘trophy with the big ears’ as he called it after the Hoops’ victory over Inter Milan in May 1967.
McNeill also had two spells as boss at Parkhead and Celtic marked the importance of his place in the club’s history books when in 2015 they erected a statue outside the stadium of him holding the European Cup.
