THE CAESAR CHRONICLES: EDDIE GRAY - Celtic Quick News 14/12/22
CQN today concludes its EXCLUSIVE series to salute Celtic’s Greatest-Ever skipper Billy McNeill. Author Alex Gordon, who has had fifteen Celtic books published, including ‘Caesar and The Assassin‘ and ‘Lisbon Lions: The 40th Anniversary Celebration‘, interviewed many of the club legend’s team-mates and opponents for his tribute tome, ‘In Praise of Caesar‘, which was published in 2018. In the final instalment of CQN‘s long-running feature, former Leeds United and Scotland winger Eddie Gray has his say. Please enjoy. BILLY McNEILL was a tremendous leader of a fabulous Celtic team. I grew up in Glasgow watching the club and have never hidden my admiration of the Parkhead club. If Don Revie hadn’t persuaded me to join Leeds United in 1965, then who knows if I might have gone to my boyhood favourites? Fate decreed otherwise. I played against Billy several times in the late sixties and early seventies. I recall a challenge game being moved from Celtic Park to Hampden to accommoda...