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The final resting place and incredible legacy of Helenio Herrera…

Over recent months, I’ve been lucky enough to have been provided with some unique football snippets from the collection of legendary Celtic author and historian Pat Woods, some of which we have published as articles on The Celtic Star, so that they get the wider audience they deserve.

The links are included throughout this article for those who haven’t seen these articles.

READ THIS…Matt Corr with Pat Woods: When Jock Stein met Helenio Herrera – The Invitation

That included a fascinating series of articles published in the Scottish Daily Express back in the winter of 1963, where young Dunfermline Athletic manager Jock Stein accepted an invitation to talk all things football with the man considered at that time as the world’s greatest coach, Inter Milan’s Helenio Herrera.

No-one could possibly have foreseen the events which would pan out in Lisbon less than four years later, as the two men fought for Europe