Gillies, Iain

Iain Gillies spent one season at Glasgow Celtic as a teenager before being given a free transfer. That one sentence includes the most proud and most heartbreaking experiences of his life. But he is still Celtic through and through. After the knee injuries that curtailed his career at Celtic threatened to stop him playing football altogether, he became a newspaper reporter and ended up being the editor of the Gisborne Herald in New Zealand for 30 years. He also resurrected his football career, playing and coaching at Gisborne City for decades and making the New Zealand team in 1967. Gillies has...