Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone, Celtic's Greatest Ever Player died this morning, aged 61.

Jinky had been suffering from Motor Neurone Disease for several years now.

Rest In Peace Jinky. YNWA.

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Jimmy Johnstone

Right-winger of the legendary "Lisbon Lions", the Celtic European Cup winning team of 1967, "Wee Jinky" was probably the smallest Scots player ever to play professional football, but what he lacked in stature was more than compensated for by a level of skill and ball-trickery that made George Best look positively pedestrian.

His footballing prowess was unfortunately not matched by his nautical abilities, and he was nearly banned from the Scotland football team, a month before the 1974 World Cup Finals in Germany, after a famous drunken escapade at the team's Saltcoats training camp which ended in him being swept out to sea on a stolen rowing boat, without any oars, and having to be rescued by the Coast guard.


R.I.P.

R.I.P. Jinky and YNWA

Sad day today.

On this thread on the Huddleboard you will find a lot of tribute videos of Jinky.

For those of you that may not have seen him before - you will get an idea of how great a player he was.

http://69.93.29.242/hb/showthread.php?t=176455

RestInPeace jinky.

Funeral will be on Friday.

By the way ... the Rangers wrote in followfollow more 30 pages full of worthy appreciations about Jinky ... respect!

a picture of a player of heaven's eleven: