Apparently he was a big influence on them buying Mo Johnston. Not that that is anything huge but is in the context of them.
Hated no doubt down in the local Yacht Club by that large constituency of hard man Pretend IRA Glasgow Celtic/Shamrock Rovers supporting types in leafy Malahide.
Elsewhere in the real world, a highly respected and admired figure in soccer circles.
Oh, I’m not doubting that, but you said he transcended the divide, can you give me examples, my recollection is that there was a song sung about him by 50000 which wasn’t favourable towards him.
Also, that’s a very specific type
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Walter came very close on two occasions to bringing Old Big Ears back to Scotland for a second time. He was a key figure in Dundee United’s rise in the early 1980s which culminated in them coming agonisingly close to reaching the 1984 European Cup final, and then with Rangers in 1993.
They did some job on Leeds over two legs.
Roma bought the ref in that semi final. Final was on in rome and they were doing everything to get there. Ironically denied the trophy by a man famously accused of being for sale himself later on in his career.
His biggest achievement was bringing a bang average Rangers team to a UEFA Cup final in 2008
Some in Scotland claim that and given the jiggery pokery around in European football at the time it’s hard to blame them. The three goals were legitimate though. Roma scheduling the second leg of that semi-final for the blazing sun of the afternoon probably didn’t help Dundee United. The behaviour of the Roma players after that match was appalling, memorably captured in a photograph which laid out the difference in clear terms between their classlessness and the dignity and stoicism of Jim McLean and Walter Smith.
Roma would not cow a more experienced Liverpool team in the final however. the trophy returning to Anfield for the fourth time.
There’s a wide view among Liverpool supporters old enough to remember the time that Dundee United would have been the more dangerous opponent in the final.
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think Liverpool won on penalties mate , a year later, they lost to Juventus in the final & were banned from Europe shortly after
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Dundee Utd were the bookies favourites at the semi final stage. Roma beating them was an upset of sorts
Dignity.
I watched this match in the old Skeff in Galway, a great place for the underage to watch night matches on pay television in the 1995-97 period. Think it was the last time I was in it as the interior was completely gutted not long after. I was gutted and did not display much dignity when Erik Bo Andersen slotted in the clinching goal at the end, storming out into Eyre Square and throwing a Temuri Ketsbaia style strop.
But anyway, what we have lost with the passing of these two giants.
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Thats a fine pair of tits.
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Blair is dead.