Bobby Lennox
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Lennox | ||
| Date of birth | 30 August 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Saltcoats, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Outside Left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Ardeer Recreation F.C. | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961–1978 | Celtic | 293 | (157) |
| 1978 | Houston Hurricane | 30 | (3) |
| 1978–1981 | Celtic | 42 | (10) |
| National team | |||
| 1966–1970 | Scotland | 10 | (3) |
| 1966–1968 | Scottish League XI | 3 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Robert "Bobby" Lennox, MBE (born 30 August 1943, in Saltcoats, Ayrshire) is a former Scottish professional footballer who played for Celtic Football Club and was a member of their 1967 European Cup winning team known as the Lisbon Lions. He also earned ten international caps for his national team Scotland. In 2002, Celtic supporters voted him a member of the club's all-time greatest team.
Celtic signed Lennox from Scottish Junior team Ardeer Recreation on provisional forms in 1961 at the age of 18, and he made his first team debut the following March. He went on to score 273 goals in all competitions, second only to Celtic's all-time top scorer Jimmy McGrory's total of 468 goals. Of his 273 goals, 167 were scored in the Scottish league, making him the fifth top league scorer in Celtic. He won eleven League medals, eight Scottish Cup medals, and five League Cup medals (scoring 63 goals in the competition) and was a member of the 1967 European Cup winning Celtic team, known as the Lisbon Lions, who defeated Inter Milan 2–1 in the Estádio Nacional stadium in Lisbon, Portugal.
He scored in 13 consecutive league games (21 goals) between 2 March 1968 and 7 September 1968, a record only beaten by Evelyn Morrison of Falkirk in the 1928/1929 season, who scored in 14 consecutive league games and equalled by Finn Dossing of Dundee United in the 1964/1965 season.
Below are details of that 13 game streak (goals scored in brackets);
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