Aberdeen legend Dougie Bell admits hearing he’s to finally receive a medal 40 years after the Dons’ Euro triumph left him beaming - and would have made late wife Hazel even happier.
The 63-year-old received a call from Pittodrie chairman Dave Cormack on Sunday to break the good news after the club secured an extra six medals from UEFA which will be presented as part of the celebrations to mark the date of their European Cup Winners’ Cup triumph, May 12. The midfielder played a massive part in the club's greatest moment in 1983 even though injury cruelly robbed him of a place in historic victory over Real Madrid in the final.
Bell produced man of the match displays in the key quarter final first leg against Bayern Munich which finished goalless and the 5-1 Pittodrie trouncing of Waterschei in the semi final. But he had to watch the heroic defeat of Alfredo di Stefano’s Madrid magicians from the rain-soaked stands - alongside Hazel - after breaking an ankle in the Scottish Cup semi final win over Celtic just three weeks earlier.
