MPs calling for Stein knighthood

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MPs calling for Stein knighthood
 

Two Labour MPs have tabled a Commons motion calling for former Celtic manager Jock Stein to be awarded a posthumous knighthood.
 
Jim Devine and David Marshall said Stein should be honoured "properly" for helping Celtic become the first British side to win the European Cup.

Stein also won 10 Scottish League titles, nine Scottish cups, and six Scottish League Cups.

He collapsed and died in 1985, during a Scotland match with Wales, aged 62.

Devine and Marshall said Stein also led unfashionable Dunfermline into Europe after winning the Scottish Cup in 1961. 

As a player Stein captained Celtic to Coronation Cup success when they beat Arsenal, Manchester United and Hibernian to become unofficial champions of Britain in 1953.

Stein steered Scotland to the 1982 World Cup but suffered a fatal heart attack during a qualifying match in Wales on the way to Mexico '86.

Seventeen MPs have signed a motion by MP George Howarth, calling for former Liverpool manager Bob Paisley to be awarded a knighthood - 11 years after his death.

Spurs fans have attempted a similar, but so far unsuccessful, attempt at winning a similar honour for former player and manager Bill Nicholson, who died in October 2004.

[Sweet & Tender Hooligan]

Fuck that, Big Jock would tell them to shove their fuckin knighthood up their arse.

[TheDeli]

Fuck that, Big Jock would tell them to shove their fuckin knighthood up their arse.

Not IMO he wouldn't have, he would have taken it, the same way that Martin O'Neill took his MBE & OBE when the chance arose