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Evening TimesIt’s 2 years since Jinky died but he still makes me laugh every dayRussell Leadbetter10 March 2008EVEN when he was ill with motor neurone disease, Jimmy Johnstone was in the habit of going on a training run through a park near his home. Sometimes, when he stumbled and fell, his condition would make it hard to get up again. Agnes, his wife and eternally patient carer, would set out to bring him back home.She laughs. "One time I found him standing there. I asked him, What on earth is that sticking out of your head? It's like a television aerial.' He'd fallen in among some branches and a big one had stuck to his head. 
Celtic ViewJinky to be honoured with statue26 September 2007CELTIC Football Club today announced that it is to construct a statue at Celtic Park to commemorate and celebrate the life of Celtic Legend Jimmy Johnstone.The statue of Jimmy will be funded solely by the club and will be positioned at the main entrance at Celtic Park. Planning with regards to the statue will begin immediately.
Evening TimesStatue tribute to Jinky revealed13 March 2008CELTIC will unveil a statue of legendary winger Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone in August.The statue in honour of the player voted the club's greatest will stand at the main entrance to Celtic Park. |
Evening TimesFootball trust scores goal for people in needRussell Leadbetter10 March 2008IT WAS one of Jimmy Johnstone's dying wishes that the Trust set up in his name be a success - and it has been. The Jinky Johnstone Trust, launched in Lisbon two years ago, has given strips to football clubs and under-privileged kids at home and abroad.Jinky's friend, Ian Henderson, said: "On his last night Jimmy told me, Even if we could help a lame dog over a stile, that would do me'. He wanted to help the underdogs." 
Daily RecordGeorge Best Not In World's 100 Greatest Footballers06 November 2007List Snubs Legend As Dalglish Takes Greatest Scot Title but wasn't Jinky Celtic's Greatest EVER Player?GEORGE Best has failed to make a list of the 100 greatest footballers of all time. 
The HeraldAppeal is launched for Jinky memorialALISON CHIESA and STEWART PATERSON15 December 2007Footballing veterans, family and friends yesterday joined forces to launch an appeal to raise funds for a memorial to Celtic legend Jimmy "Jinky" Johnstone in his home town.They plan to honour the Lisbon Lions winger with a statue in the Viewpark area of Uddingston, where he was born and raised. |
Celtic ViewArgentinian Rabbi pays tribute to his footballing hero 40 years after seeing him play in Buenos AiresGregor Kyle11 July 2007El Cilindro Stadium in Avellaneda, Argentina, on November 1, 1967 was the last place in the world that you would have expected to find evidence of the beautiful game in action.This was a time of football giants, global greats such as Pele, Eusebio, Best and, for Celtic Football Club, it was also the era of the indomitable Lisbon Lions. But that day in South America, as the players of Argentine side, Racing Club, launched vicious challenges and off-the-ball attacks on the Celtic players in the second leg of what would become a World Club Championship triple-header, there was little sign of the skill and flair that would continue to illuminate the football world in the 1970s. 
Daily RecordConnelly: Jinky The Best Ever27 October 2007WHEN I was 15 and on the groundstaff at Celtic Park, I told my mother I wasn't going back to the club and would rather keep on the part-time job I had walking a neighbour's greyhounds in Fife.I thought walking dogs was preferable to walking in the company of football giants. It was my Celtic-daft father who told me in no uncertain terms I'd be doing nothing of the sort. George Best Not In World's 100 Greatest Footballers06 November 2007List Snubs Legend As Dalglish Takes Greatest Scot TitleGEORGE Best has failed to make a list of the 100 greatest footballers of all time. |
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