Tommy Gemmell and Dundee United anniversary reminders of a lost world | Barney Ronay
It is 30 years since Dundee United’s Uefa Cup quarter-final victory over Barcelona – and the reason for marking it now is the basic impossibity of it happening againOne of the nice things about paddling about in the vast sea of old football on the internet is the way everything remains the same in outline – flags, goals, grass, stands – but is also completely different: every surface made over and retouched, like the broom that changed its head and handle every six months for 30 years but somehow remains basically the same broom.Tommy Gemmell died this week aged 73 and will be remembered before Celtic’s match with St Mirren on Sunday. Looking back at his two European Cup finals with...