The son of a coal miner, Jimmy Johnstone was born in 1944 in Lanarkshire.
Signed by Celtic in 1963, his dazzling dribbling skills earned him the nickname
Jinky.
He made 515 appearances for Celtic, scoring 129 goals in the process, won
23 caps for Scotland and in 2002 was voted Celtic's greatest ever player by the
club's supporters. His ability to outwit defenders, particularly English ones,
endeared him to football followers everywhere - even Rangers fans - and he was a
vital part of the team that won nine consecutive Scottish league titles between
1965 and 1974.
But the undisputed highlight of his career came in Portugal on 25th May 1967
when the team that became known as the Lisbon Lions came from a goal behind to
defeat Inter-Milan 2-1 to become the first British club to win the European Cup.
Jinky was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2001, after which he became
a tireless campaigner for stem cell research to find a cure for the disease. He
died in March 2006.