Finlay Bear
Well-Known Member
Absolute Rangers legend & gentleman
My mum grew up in the same street as Willie. “Great wee fella, nice guy, funny and loves the Rangers”. Exactly the same when I met a few years back.
Glad he’s still looking so well.
Nah Baillieston.cruix man ?
Always immaculately dressed is Wee Willie.
He was always well turned out was Oor Wullie
W.A.T.P.
Great wee story about when he met Cassius Clay now known as Mohammed Ali.He looks wonderful. One of the best players I saw play in a Rangers shirt, and one of the greatest wingers in our history. Wee Wullie was a tremendous player in his prime. The fact he kept the mentally challengeds ‘Greatest Ever Player’ out of the Scotland team for so long gives you an idea of just how good he was. (I know they like to blame it on the Masons, but that’s just nonsense, it came down to talent.) I saw Wullie tear apart defenders from all around the world. If he played today he’d be on the level of Sadio Mane. I’m glad the wee man appears healthy and dapper as ever.
My friend you have oor wuillie in very high company,with those names but desrvedly so!respect,!Always class. Up there with Gento ,Kopa and Matthews. We who saw him in his prime were very very lucky.
I seen gento with real,in the final at Hampden,never seen Raymond kopa sadly ,seen Mathews play in a friendly,and we must have been wee boys at the same time,I so fondly remember my dad" lifting me over"a few times at Ibrox and watching the Ritchie shearer caldow team,and a few others just before Niven ,Harry Davies,always remember Alex Scott sure he used to run arms by his side and a straight back!I saw the 4 of them and Wee Wullie was up there with the best. Kopa scored more goals and Gento was faster but the wee guy had better footwork. Stanley Matthews in his pomp was as skillful but Wullie was quicker than him. All in all, the Wee Man was outstanding but maybe it's old age and the whisky catching up with me.
I was a great Alex Scott fan in the early 60s but my Dad went to a reserve game and came back telling me that there was a wee boy called Henderson who would be the Rangers right winger for years and Alex Scott was finished at Ibrox. He was right too.
Always immaculately dressed is Wee Willie.
A true Rangers legend who would never say a bad word against the club.
Unlike someone else.
I worked for Willie and Alfie in their nightclub,we had some great after hours parties with Willie holding court, some great stories and singsongs when the company wasn't mixed
Was brilliant to watch our two wingers in those days,Davey Wilson on the left,Alex Scott was no stoogey either!Wee wuillie was and is a gent and a true blue!
My mum grew up in the same street as Willie. “Great wee fella, nice guy, funny and loves the Rangers”. Exactly the same when I met a few years back.
Glad he’s still looking so well.
As an “absent bear“ it must be great to know you might pump into your one of your heroes just nipping out for milk. What’s all the better is that legends like Willie will make time for you and even give you some anecdotes from their playing days.I think he was good friends with my mates dad. They were from Caldercruix.
You see him out and about here in Broxburn a lot. That picture is outside the hairdressers next door to the chippy on the main street.
Why did he fall out with Waddell can anyone advise a younger fan?. I read in one of my books whilst his friends were lifting a European trophy he was on a beach somewhere having left a short while ago. You would be distraught in that regard.
Wee Willie Wonderful, my old man called him.
My dad worked with a friend of Willie and asked if he would pass on my new autograph book for Willie to sign. A few weeks went by and no sign of it, then the friend explained that Willie had lost it, then he produced another one twice the size, which Willie had bought me and had signed by the complete Rangers and Scotland squads of the time. Given this was 1964 or 1965 there were some big names in that book.
I’ve seen him a couple of times but never had the nerve to approach him and belatedly thank him, I somehow doubt if he would remember.
Thank you, I assume I will have it documented in a book somewhere. I had clips of the gornik game on DVD when I was younger, lubanski was a phenomenal player.Before the Gornick game at Ibrox in 1969, which would end up with Davie White being sacked, both the wee man and Baxter went awol from training.
It was seen in some quarters that White showed weakness in still picking them for the match.
This prompted an article by Waddell, titled 'The Boy David' and many still think this hatchet job on White prompted his sacking.
Remember also Waddell was old school, having played all his career under Bill Struth. So basically Baxter first and eventually wee Henny, were going to be surplus to requirements. The signing of Tommy McLean eventually taking its toll on WH's Ibrox career.