Tommy Gemmell obituary: He had the face and the smile of Danny Kaye

Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell scored in the 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in 1967 when Celtic became the first British club to win the European Cup. He died last week, aged 73.

‘If I kept people happy, I must have been doing something right I guess,” Tommy Gemmell told his friend and biographer Alex Gordon a few weeks before his death.

It was a typically modest understatement from one of the true greats of Scottish, and British, football, and a man who helped revolutionise the game.