- Bobby Lennox
Robert "Bobby" Lennox, MBE (born 30 August 1943, in
Saltcoats ,Ayrshire ) is a former Scottish professional footballer. In 2002, Celtic supporters voted him a member of the club's all-time greatest team.Lennox signed provisional forms for Celtic in September 1961 and made his first-team debut the following March. He went on to score 273 league goals in 571 appearances for Celtic, giving him the second highest ever scoring record for the club. He won eleven League medals, eight
Scottish Cup medals, and four League Cup medals (scoring 63 goals in the competition). He also won a European Cup Medal when he won the competition with the Celtic team known as theLisbon Lions He also won ten international caps for Scotland, a total which would surely have been higher if it wasn't for the intense competition for his position. He was an extremely fast winger and he was known by fans as 'Buzz Bomb' or 'Lemon' as they thought he made defenders look like 'suckers'.
Lennox left Celtic in the late seventies and moved to the
United States to play forHouston Hurricane . During the 1978 season, he scored 15 goals in 36 games, before returning to Celtic in 1979. It was a good move, as Celtic took the League Championship that year and the Scottish Cup in 1980.He is one of the small band of Scotsmen to play in two European Cup finals, and also one of the few to have scored in a Scotland victory over England at Wembley, scoring one of the goals in the famous 3-2 victory in 1967.
He was inducted into the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame in November 2005. He was also awarded an MBE in 1981.
Lennox published his autobiography, "A Million Miles For Celtic", in 1982. He continues his connection with Celtic as a match day host and is the Honorary President of the Houston Bobby Lennox Celtic Supporters Club. His son Gary carried on the family's footballing tradition, playing professionally for Dundee and Falkirk.
External links
* [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport.cfm?id=2242982005 Lennox on being inducted into Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame]
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