But did you know that we also got the better of the Merseysiders when it came to signing one of our stars of the 1970s? Lou Macari was on the verge of putting pen to paper for Liverpool – then managed by the legendary Bill Shankly – when a timely intervention from another Scottish icon persuaded him to sign on the dotted line at Old Trafford instead.
Lou himself took up the story in an episode of UTD Podcast, starting with how he asked Jock Stein for a wage increase at Celtic.
“I went in and told him my father had died and I was having to support my mother now,” said Macari.