The Celtic Family this morning is united in sending Birthday Wishes to the Celtic legend and Lisbon Lion John Clark on his 80th birthday.
John Clark made 318 appearances for Celtic, scoring just three goals in that time. He played an incredible 140 consecutive games for the Hoops between April 1965 and September 1967. He won 11 major honours during his time as a Celtic player, these include three league titles, three Scottish Cups, four League Cups and one European Cup. He was also Billy’s McNeill’s assistant manager when Billy came back from Aberdeen to manage Celtic.
Rather than mention any of his Celtic games what about his appearance for Scotland on 25 June 1966 against Brazil at Hampden. “Most football fans would agree that the stars from Brazil are a little bit special and love to see them in action,” fellow Lisbon Lion Jim Craig wrote on The Celtic Star. “Scotland has played against the men from South America on 9 occasions, the first of which was on this day in 1966, when a crowd of almost 75,000 turned up at Hampden for a friendly.
“There were two Celtic players in the side – Stevie Chalmers and John Clark – and Stevie got Scotland off to the perfect start when he opened the scoring in 38 seconds. Brazil later equalised through Servilio and the match ended 1-1, the fans leaving well content with their national team’s draw against such talented opposition.”
Former Celtic winger David Provan tells a good story relevant to this game. Celtic were in New York in the early 1980s and Provan is in the hotel lift with the Celtic Assistant Manager John Clark when Pele gets in, immediately recognises Clark and talks about the game in 1966. Clark is a quiet man and smiles. Provan is star-stuck. When Pele leave the two Celtic men look at each other and straight faced Clark says ‘who the hell was that?”
Happy 80th Birthday Luggy!
🎂 Happy Birthday, John Clark, one of the greatest ever Celts 🍀 https://t.co/vVpKvbs6Qe
— Celtic TV (@CelticTV) March 13, 2021
🎉 Wishing a very happy 8️⃣0️⃣th birthday to Lisbon Lion legend John Clark! 🦁🍀#CelticFC 🟢⚪️ pic.twitter.com/wOjfBdTjZm
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) March 13, 2021
🦁 On John Clark’s big birthday, we take a look back at some of the Lisbon Lion’s career highlights.
Have a great day, John! 🎈8️⃣0️⃣#CelticFC 🍀
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) March 13, 2021
Happy Birthday John Clark.💪 pic.twitter.com/s5YohBD1Rq
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe_7) March 13, 2021
“I was a Celtic supporter, a Celtic player, it’s been my life… I’ve really enjoyed my life, when I look back I couldn’t ask for any more.“
John Clark (2014)https://t.co/bNVCotjubk pic.twitter.com/m8rVcys0nP— JoeBloggsCity (@joebloggscity) March 13, 2021
Happy birthday to a true Celtic legend, John Clark who is 80 today 🍀🍀🍀 #celtic #CelticFC pic.twitter.com/BxpPkjiJRr
— Celtic_bhoy_1888 (@1888_Celticbhoy) March 13, 2021
OTD 1941 a #LisbonLion & a #CelticLegend was born.. Happy 80th birthday John Clark 🎵🎂☘💚 xxx pic.twitter.com/wlgtreotsN
— Báirbre (Babs) Mac Mathúna 💜💚 #RememberMyNoah💙 (@BarbaraMcMahon8) March 13, 2021
Big birthday wishes to a great friend of our CSC.
A true gentleman, distinguished ambassador for Celtic football club, a legend of Lisbon, and now, an octogenarian.
Happy 80th to the one and only, John Clark 🍀 pic.twitter.com/jXETnLyoOf— Éire Go Brách CSC (@EireGoBrachCSC) March 13, 2021
John Clark, Celtic player 1958-71, Lisbon Lion and coach
“Players come and go but some achievements live forever.”
Happy birthday Luggy! 😊 One of the greatest Celtic men ever. Lanarkshire legend.
Biog https://t.co/bNVCotjubk#CelticAtoZ pic.twitter.com/0vjfwhTUJr
— JoeBloggsCity (@joebloggscity) March 13, 2021
“If they are down in my room I just show them the photograph of us with the European Cup. I’ll say to them, ‘There have been big changes since then but take a look at that. The thing in the middle with the big handles is the thing you’ll always want to win. I won it.'”
John Clark— CelticQuote (@CelticQuote) March 12, 2021
🍀 Happy 80th birthday to “The Brush” – John Clark. Here he is along with fellow Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox at a memorial mass for Billy McNeill which was held at Wilton Church following his passing. Have a great day. HH 🍀 pic.twitter.com/TuVAKVdBbg
— Official Cork No1CSC (@CorkNo1csc) March 13, 2021
Happy birthday to the best grandad a girl could ask for 💚
80 years young today 🎉🎈 pic.twitter.com/dqUQoqav2u
— Clare🦁💚 (@anybodyclarex) March 13, 2021
