JOCK STEIN is a man whose name resonates throughout Scottish football as much today as it did three decades ago.

It was on this very day 30 years ago that the nation lost a man who always demanded the best, and will forever be remembered for acheiving it.

The man from Burnbank in Hamilton is most famous for his role as manager at Celtic, where he of course guided them to the European Cup to become the first British club to do so.

He then went on to lead the national team, and it was during this role where Stein tragically suffered a heart attack and died moments after Scotland's 1-1 draw with Wales at Ninian Park in Cardiff.

Thirty years on, he is still remembered. Read on as we keep you up to date throughout the day with what world football is saying about the great man.

CELTIC

A ceremony was held at Parkhead this morning where Hoops legend Jim Craig, broadcaster Archie Macpherson and Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell were among those to gather at the statue to Stein at the top of the Celtic Way.

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Peter Lawwell, Archie Macpherson and George Stein this morning outside Parkhead

Speaking outside the stadium this morning, ARCHIE MACPHERSON said: “Although everybody realises that this club was saved, financially rescued, rebuilt, re-generated by a group of people who saw it important to do so, might they have been less inclined had Jock Stein not created a status for Celtic that demanded that they do so.

“So it wasn’t just Mr Fergus McCann who built this, it was Jock Stein as well. And that is the extent of the man who died 30 years ago.

“He was a powerful man, in many ways he was no saint, how could you be? How could you be a charming avuncular person in this very competitive world?

“And he got on and he was successful, winning 10 league championships, six League Cups, eight Scottish Cups and, above all, the winning of the European Cup in Lisbon in 1967.”

BERTIE AULD recalled: “If you had a really good game and he thought you were getting carried away with it, he wasn’t long in bringing you down to earth – he would tell you about the bad passes you had.

“But when you had a real stinker, like I had in a game at Ibrox and I promise you I made only two passes so I was desperate to get into the shower. But one of the passes was to Bobby Lennox wide on the left about 25 or 30 yards away.  I knew it didn’t matter if it was a good ball or a bad ball because Bobby would make it a good ball.

“So I was having a bad game and I knocked the ball to Bobby and he cut across Sandy Jardine who was picking him up and stuck the ball in the back of the net.

“After the game I couldn’t get in quickly enough to get into the bath because I thought I was going to get it again.

“But he said to me, ‘What a magnificent pass, what about the support you gave him after it?’ He never said anything about Bobby scoring the goal!

“He said that was the best pass of the game and that’s what he did, he was able to lift you up when you needed it.”

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PETER LAWWELL, above, added: “Growing up in the ‘60s in Glasgow, football was everything. It was an inspiration. It was the way out for many working-class boys and to play for Celtic was the peak. The aspiration to play for Celtic was in all of us.

“Celtic went beyond football at that point, it gave an identity to our community, it inspired our community both on and off the pitch.

“Jock Stein was the creator of that. Jock Stein was, in this club’s history, a colossus, a giant and an inspiration.

“He was also a creator and the status of the club today is entirely down to, in the modern day, Jock Stein and the Lisbon Lions.

“He came in 1965 and by 1967 with 11 players plus the other squad members, he actually won the European Cup and Celtic virtually became the best club n the world.

“His legacy is with us, it will always be with us and it will always be strong.”

BILLY McNEILL told the official Celtic website: “Lisbon wouldn’t have been possible without him. Had Jock Stein not come to Celtic at that time, the club would just have lumbered on. We might have won the Scottish Cup in 1965 - that may have been our year for winning the cup under Jimmy McGrory - but Jock brought the different approach to everything that consolidated it for us.

“I can honestly say that we might have won the Scottish Cup back then but what certainly would not have happened was the sheer volume of trophies and success that came after that – and that is down to the Big Man. For me, the modern-day Celtic owes one hell of a debt to Big Jock for what he did.”

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Stein, far left and Billy McNeill, third from the right, with the European Cup

JOHN CLARK told the Celtic View: "Having the match was a brilliant idea to recognise Jock. He was the king at Dunfermline as well then he left for Easter Road and came back to us. You talk about records but success just followed him. He helped to build clubs and the foundation was always set in with him. 

"He set a pattern of play and got good players round about him at Dunfermline and did the same at Hibs. I had a good relationship with him. When I was on the staff here I used to go down to England a lot with him and there are not many people who got that opportunity to travel with him.

"It wasn’t about anything else other than football that we talked about. I enjoyed the whole thing and it set me on the road in my football career as well. I have a lot to thank him for. What the two clubs have done has to be commended and there was a great response, crowd wise, to make it an atmosphere and have some recognition of Jock Stein."

DUNFERMLINE

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Stein during his time at Dunfermline in the 60s

While Stein's name will be forever linked with Celtic, he first dipped his toe into managerial waters at East End Park, where he took charge of Dunfermline. Inheriting a team that had not won in four months, the Pars went on to record six matches on the bounce. He took them to their first ever Scottish Cup triumph, beating Celtic 2-0 in a 1961 final replay.

At the weekend a charity match was hosted at East End Park between Dunfermline and Celtic all-star sides. Pars legend Jim Leishman was an ambassador for that event.

He said: "Jock Stein is an iconic figure within Scottish football, but is truly legendary at Celtic and here at Dunfermline Athletic. He laid the foundation for the halcyon years we had at East End Park in the 1960s which included so many fantastic adventures in Europe.

"Celtic will rightly always remember their great triumph in Lisbon, but Pars fans will never forget the scenes in the High Street in 1961, which went well into the night when the open top bus returned from Hampden with the Scottish Cup. Mr Stein had taken our club to its first national trophy and we then went on to notable wins against Everton and Valencia in European ties.

"He was sadly taken away from us guiding the national team to the World Cup in 1985, but it is a fitting tribute to Mr Stein that we will be able to commemorate his death some 30 years later, with a charity match between our two great clubs. Celtic and Dunfermline have always had a very close relationship, and much of that is due to the great man."

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Jim Leishman promoting the Jock Stein charity game

SCOTLAND

The picture below is probably the biggest example of coaching brilliance ever to be gathered in the one place. Stein and Sir Alex Ferguson worked together with the national team, and can be seen here enjoying a moment during Scotland's 1984/85 campaign.

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Thirty years on, Ferguson was present at Hampden on Monday night during Scotland's 3-2 defeat to Germany, where the country remembered the legacy of their former coach. The ex-Manchester United manager took to the field along with Jock's son, George, and greeted both sides and match officials before taking his place in the stand.

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Sir Alex Ferguson and George Stein

The Scottish Football Association took to Twitter this morning.

Stein was seen as a man ahead of his time in an old fashioned world. His dedication to fitness was untold and the demands he placed on his players was incredible. Earlier in the week, former Scotland goalkeeper Alan Rough told Hugh MacDonald just what it was like to be under his stewardship.

Rough said:  "He was the best. He commanded respect, there was an aura about him. Team talks were very, very thorough. He knew the opposition inside out. He had that something that people respond to.”

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Alan Rough and Stein during a Scotland training camp

WORLDWIDE

Messages of remembrance and celebration of Stein's life and work have been flooding in all day. Here are just a few of the thousands who took to Twitter.