CELTIC great Roy Aitken today paid an emotional tribute to his close friend and former Parkhead team mate Frank McGarvey after it was announced the legendary striker had passed away at the age of 66 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Aitken won every major honour in Scottish football playing alongside McGarvey during the early 1980s and believes the forward, who netted 109 times in 245 appearances for his boyhood heroes, should be remembered as one of the Glasgow club’s all-time great goalscorers.
The Easterhouse lad’s most famous moment was scoring a late winner in the 1985 Scottish Cup final against Dundee United in front of a crowd of 60,346 in what turned out to be his last game for the team he had grown up cheering on from the terraces.
