Enter Cesar, imperiously appearing aloft on the high citadel of the presentation platform

I remember being at a League match with my Uncle Bartly at Somerset Park in Ayr around about 1970. Billy McNeill – Big Billy to his admirers – was immense for Celtic. At the heart of the hoops defence, he effortlessly swatted away the buzzing of Alex ‘Dixie’ Ingram and Cutty Young...