He had an injury iircLooking at an old team photo.
How did John Greig get past the beard ban?
Looking at an old team photo.
How did John Greig get past the beard ban?
Think he had several stitches in a face injury, started growing a beard to cover it up. The team then went on a great European run in 1972 and he didn't want to shave until they won it, the rest is history.
That's my recollection. After the injury, he wouldn't shave it in case it was bad luck.Think he had several stitches in a face injury, started growing a beard to cover it up. The team then went on a great European run in 1972 and he didn't want to shave until they won it, the rest is history.
Think he had several stitches in a face injury, started growing a beard to cover it up. The team then went on a great European run in 1972 and he didn't want to shave until they won it, the rest is history.
Looking at an old team photo.
How did John Greig get past the beard ban?
Bro, that really is a cool story.Think he had several stitches in a face injury, started growing a beard to cover it up. The team then went on a great European run in 1972 and he didn't want to shave until they won it, the rest is history.
Is the correct answer!Think he had several stitches in a face injury, started growing a beard to cover it up. The team then went on a great European run in 1972 and he didn't want to shave until they won it, the rest is history.
When I first read your post I wondered why you weren't aware of that story then looked at your bio and realised you hadn't even been born then!Bro, that really is a cool story.
I’ve stole a few years there but born in 75 so still missed out.When I first read your post I wondered why you weren't aware of that story then looked at your bio and realised you hadn't even been born then!
You've just made me realise that perhaps a whole load of posters on here's favourite team doesn't begin with "Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow, Grieg......……"
Exactly Captain C, I feel for the young bears, we have been so lucky to have seen so many great Rangers teams. 55 will be so sweet for us all............especially this year.When I first read your post I wondered why you weren't aware of that story then looked at your bio and realised you hadn't even been born then!
You've just made me realise that perhaps a whole load of posters on here's favourite team doesn't begin with "Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow, Grieg......……"
I used to regale Cutlass Jnr with tales of like when John Grieg broke his leg and just got the physios to strap a lollipop stick and an Elastoplast on it and carried on for the rest of the game...and that just proves that the players nowadays are a bunch of pansies by comparison!Greatest Ranger ever, remember we were struggling in the league in 72 but Greig hardly missed a game, sure I remember him getting a bad ankle injury at Ibrox, refused to take his boot off as he knew it would balloon up so he got it strapped from the outside with the bandage on top of the sock and boot. What a warrior he was, only met him once at the AGM in the Royal Concert hall, what a gentleman.
i might be old fashioned but i dont like it when SG goes unshaven, he should be setting the standard
Hopefully that’s a joke.i might be old fashioned but i dont like it when SG goes unshaven, he should be setting the standard
Even as a self confessed traditionalist, I quite agree.I like it, he looks cooler with the 5 o' clock shadow.
its a opinionHopefully that’s a joke.
I have no idea how to,but could someone post the photo of JG from 1972....day after the victory in Barcelona,three piece suit,tie,shades, holding aloft the cup winners cup.
Possibly on the aeroplane entrance steps.
The "coolest" Rangers photo ever in my opinion.
Even as a self confessed traditionalist, I quite agree.
Years ago a 5 o'clock shadow was considered scruffy and certainly wouldn't have been entertained by anyone at Rangers but times and styles have changed.
I'm all for our manager being one of the coolest looking guys on the planet!
A pretty pathetic one. What standards are you even on about.its a opinion
why are you being confrontational with me i only stated what i thought it wasnt a slur on SG it was a opinionA pretty pathetic one. What standards are you even on about.
I’m hardly a young bear anymore but I wasn’t born then either!When I first read your post I wondered why you weren't aware of that story then looked at your bio and realised you hadn't even been born then!
You've just made me realise that perhaps a whole load of posters on here's favourite team doesn't begin with "Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow, Grieg......……"
Posted before about how we were sitting on the plane at the airport when JG appeared on the runway at the side of the plane with the ECWC held aloft.
All I could find right now.
I have no idea how to,but could someone post the photo of JG from 1972....day after the victory in Barcelona,three piece suit,tie,shades, holding aloft the cup winners cup.
Possibly on the aeroplane entrance steps.
The "coolest" Rangers photo ever in my opinion.
Bill Struth and Willie WaddellA pretty pathetic one. What standards are you even on about.
I wonder who the SLO is called after?My old man named me after John Greig.
Lots must have had a similar idea as any time I'm at any kind of Rangers event their is always a healthy number of Greig's on the list.
That's my recollection. After the injury, he wouldn't shave it in case it was bad luck.
Not only is it a cool story, it is 100% true.Bro, that really is a cool story.
Its 2019its a opinion
that's what I remember, Willie Henderson had a moustache toStitches after splitting his chin in the cup winners cup run.
Standards from 48+ years ago?Bill Struth and Willie Waddell
Bill Struth and Willie Waddell