Book description
Celtic strode majestically into the history books in 1967 as the
first British club to conquer Europe, and the iconic photograph of
captain Billy McNeill holding aloft the glittering European Cup in the
Lisbon sunshine is the defining image of that footballing era. Yet at
the start of the decade, Celtic were a team plagued by defeats and in
disarray both on and off the field. What brought about their
remarkable transformation?
In Celtic: The Awakening, Alex Gordon enters uncharted
territory to investigate the story of Celtic in the 1960s, an
extraordinary decade in the club's roller-coaster 125-year history.
Players of the era, good, bad and indifferent, are interviewed in
depth in an attempt to unravel one of football's greatest mysteries.
Sweeping through the '60s and beyond, Celtic: The Awakening
details the previously untold story of how a proud club rose from
grief to glory, from dismay to delight.
Alex Gordon is a former
Sunday Mail
sports editor and chief sports subeditor of the
Daily Record
, and has also worked as a columnist for
World Soccer Monthly
and as the Scottish correspondent for
France Football
and
L'Ã quip
e. He has co-authored a number of sports books, including
A Bhoy
Called Bertie
with Bertie Auld,
The Quiet Assassin
with Davie Hay and
Seeing Red
with Chic Charnley. He lives on the outskirts of Glasgow with his wife.
