THERE are surely worse things to be remembered for than scoring an iconic goal against the mighty Leeds United in the 1970 European Cup semi-final in front of 136,505 at Hampden Park, but to reduce John Hughes’s Celtic legacy to that singular moment is to do the legendary forward an injustice.
That stooping header, as ‘Yogi’ lunged ahead of Jackie Charlton to meet Bertie Auld’s cross with a deft glance that found the far corner, would have been enough to cement Hughes’s place among the pantheon of Celtic greats, but there was much more to his story at the club than that famous evening in Mount Florida.
