IT WAS quite a moment for football fans around the country, when Matt Busby presented Jock Stein with the team prize at the BBC’s Sports Review of 1967.
The two managerial titans shared a laugh and a good-natured exchange of greetings as the award was made in recognition of Celtic’s European Cup triumph in Lisbon the same year.
Legend has it that Stein, on receipt of the trophy, uttered the words: “We hope that the next hands on the European Cup are yours.”
It turned out to be prophetic - Manchester United, under Matt Busby, went on to win the European Cup in the following year’s competition.
The BBC Sports Review was the forerunner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, which is still going strong today.
In 1967, boxer Henry Cooper won the individual award.
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He is one of only five people to win it more than once alongside Formula One drivers Nigel Mansell, Lewis Hamilton and Damon Hill, and tennis superstar Andy Murray, who has won three times.
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