JimmyJohnstone.com

Greatest Ever gets iPhone App 40% off original price until May 21st!

Phil Carpenter

22 April 2010

Jimmy ‘Jinky’ Johnstone, Celtic's Greatest Ever Player, first iPhone and iPod Touch Application is now available to download 40% off original price until May 21st!. Profits from the Application go to Agnes Johnstone, widow of the late Jimmy Johnstone.

The Application is a Multimedia take on the original ‘Tribute to Jinky E.P.’ released shortly after Jimmy Johnstone’s death in March 2006. It features videos, including Jinky in a duet with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr, covering the Ewan MacColl classic, Dirty Old Town. Plus tracks from Shane MacGowan and John McLaughlin. Download here

Evening Times

It’s 2 years since Jinky died but he still makes me laugh every day

Russell Leadbetter

10 March 2008

EVEN when he was ill with motor neurone disease, Jimmy Johnstone was in the habit of going on a training run through a park near his home. Sometimes, when he stumbled and fell, his condition would make it hard to get up again. Agnes, his wife and eternally patient carer, would set out to bring him back home.

She laughs. "One time I found him standing there. I asked him, What on earth is that sticking out of your head? It's like a television aerial.' He'd fallen in among some branches and a big one had stuck to his head.

Daily Record

Connelly: Jinky The Best Ever

27 October 2007

WHEN I was 15 and on the groundstaff at Celtic Park, I told my mother I wasn't going back to the club and would rather keep on the part-time job I had walking a neighbour's greyhounds in Fife.

I thought walking dogs was preferable to walking in the company of football giants. It was my Celtic-daft father who told me in no uncertain terms I'd be doing nothing of the sort.

The Herald

Wee Jinky’s CD wings way to top of the charts

Cameron Simpson

11 April 2006

THE lyrics tell the story of a troubled man who wants to take "a good sharp axe" to his birthplace and "chop it down like an old dead tree". But in the Dear Green Place yesterday, four of The Lisbon Lions extolled the virtues of a Dirty Old Town.

Bertie Auld, Bobby Lennox, Billy McNeill, and Steve Chalmers were at the Virgin Megastore in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, to sign copies of Jimmy Johnstone's charity CD single which has topped the charts in Scotland.

Evening Times

Celtic heroes sign up for Jinky song

12 April 2006

LISBON Lions legends are helping to get Jimmy Johnstone on Top of the Pops by urging fans to buy the digital download of Tribute to Jinky from iTunes, whilst helping to boost the physical sales by signing CD's and keeping Jinky at the top of the pop charts in Scotland.

They met fans and signed copies of the Lord of the Wing DVD and charity single Dirty Old Town, which Jinky recorded last year with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr.

The Glaswegian

Quality Mark award for football academy set-up in honour of Celtic great Jimmy Johnstone

25 March 2010

A TRAINING academy set up to honour the memory of the late Jimmy Johnstone has been rewarded for its service to the community.

The academy, set up in memory of Celtic's greatest ever player, received the SFA Quality Mark award for their services and contributions to the local community.

The Scotsman

Fabergé's homage to priceless talent of Jinky – and it could be yours for £20,000

Martyn McLaughlin and Chris McCall

30 April 2009

HE WAS one of Scottish football's gems, a diminutive but devilish talent who tormented defences with his dribbling and impressed the world with his courage. Now, a glittering tribute to Jimmy "Jinky" Johnstone, the late Celtic footballer, is to be sold off, helping to finance research into the condition which claimed his life.

Now, a glittering tribute to Jimmy "Jinky" Johnstone, the late Celtic footballer, is to be sold off, helping to finance research into the condition which claimed his life.

Celtic View

Argentinian Rabbi pays tribute to his footballing hero 40 years after seeing him play in Buenos Aires

Gregor Kyle

11 July 2007

El Cilindro Stadium in Avellaneda, Argentina, on November 1, 1967 was the last place in the world that you would have expected to find evidence of the beautiful game in action.

This was a time of football giants, global greats such as Pele, Eusebio, Best and, for Celtic Football Club, it was also the era of the indomitable Lisbon Lions. But that day in South America, as the players of Argentine side, Racing Club, launched vicious challenges and off-the-ball attacks on the Celtic players in the second leg of what would become a World Club Championship triple-header, there was little sign of the skill and flair that would continue to illuminate the football world in the 1970s.

George Best Not In World's 100 Greatest Footballers

06 November 2007

List Snubs Legend As Dalglish Takes Greatest Scot Title

GEORGE Best has failed to make a list of the 100 greatest footballers of all time.