...Jock Stein, a man whom Alex Ferguson once described as British football’s greatest ever manager. A coalminer in his early twenties, Stein understood better than most the need for teams to place the needs of the collective before those of the individual.
To replicate the environment of trust and camaraderie that existed down the mines, “Big Jock” assembled a squad of local talent who could strongly identify with the club’s mission, vision and values. At Barrowfield, the club’s training ground, Stein continuously developed these players, showing them how “to play football the Glasgow Celtic way”, a “pure, beautiful, inventive” interpretation of the game.
