Tom Boyd was captain of the Celtic team which stopped the 10 back in 1998, and he was still wearing the armband the following season when Dr Jozef Venglos was appointed Celtic manager.

And the Hoops legend paid tribute to his former manager following his sad passing this week at the age of 84.

“Dr Jo was always a perfect gentleman any time you met him, whether that was during the year he was at Celtic, or any time after that,” said Boyd. “He was very softy-spoken, he was very intelligent and he obviously knew the game really well.

“He brought a few good players in to Celtic as well – Lubo, Johan, Vidar Riseth and Mark Viduka – to enhance the team, and he also brought some different training methods and different ideas into the club.

'The most memorable game of that season was obviously the 5-1 win over Rangers at Celtic Park.'

"That was a great game, and up until recent years, when you said ‘the 5-1 game’, that’s the one everyone remembered. And the only disappointing thing on the day was that it could have been more.”

Dr Jo came to Celtic in July 1998, and was in charge of the team for that 1998/99 season. The Slovakian football legend brought with him a wealth of football experience, and he continued to be involved in the game for many years after leaving Celtic.

“I remember meeting him in Seville at the UEFA Cup final, when he was a representative of either UEFA or FIFA,” said Tom Boyd. “We met him after the game, and he was just so nice to talk to, as always, and he was so complimentary about Celtic, so he was certainly somebody that we wish would have been able to go and win something during his time at the club.”

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