13 November 1968, Celtic 5:1 Red Star Brigade – “Johnstone The Tornado”

On this day in 1968 Jock Stein manufactured a 5-1 win against Red Star Belgrade by playing on his superstar’s fear of flying. Here’s what happened in the European Cup encounter and then Historian David Potter tells the story below. ‘I’m no feart o’ flying just crashing,’ Jinky Jimmy Johnstone was afraid of flying...