A great servant to Scottish football will be sadly missed. Tommy Burns died this morning, rest in peace Tommy.

I'm shocked!

Produced one of the most entertaining football teams I'd ever seen in that great Celtic line-up, where ball players of Stubbs and Boyd were rocks in the defence, Collins and McStay were at the heart and di Canio, Cadette and van Hooijdonk were the amazing front line.  Only a sheer will to win and incredible goalie stopped them winning the title.

RIP

OMG!

RIP

Sad moment for all concerned.

rip

Never realised it was that advanced. RIP Tommy.

Very sad news indeed. He seemed like a very decent man

Just saw this myself. Very sad indeed. Didn't realise it was so bad.

Wishes to his family.  Great servant to Scotland and Celtic.

Sad news indeed. RIP.

Aye, sad news indeed,another of the good guys gone.

RIP Tommy

Didn't always agree with his comments on the Scottish game but nobody should die the way he did. He was a great player/manager and I know he will be missed by millions. RIP

RIP Tommy, a sad loss to Scottish football.

What a shame.

Yes, RIP Tommy.  I had a look on the Reading FC fans forum today, and it is nice to see that there are scores of condolence messages on there, even though its fair to say most Reading fans thought he was a very poor manager in his spell with them.

RIP Tommy!

An absolute gentleman, a very sad loss.

Thoughts to his Tommys family and RIP Tommy

sad loss see you on the other side a gent

On the field of battle, in the land of dreams, we tend to forget that many of those on the opposite side for the '45 are just ordinary decent people.

sad...

thoughts with his family

Indeed

And a fine footballer in his day too.

One memory I have of him and I think he was playing for Killie at the time, I'm sure someone will know, he was one on one with the goalie and lobbed him beautifully, only to see the ball bounce over the bar off the hard summer pitch!!!

I recall around about 1979 Celtic were playing a pre season friendly against the Jags at Kinsmills and there were the usual crowd of kids hunting autoraphs at a time when Old Firm stars appearing in the Highlands was a rare event.

Most of the Celtic team, even the fringe players who made up the bulk of the Celtic XI, signed one or two autographs in a perfuntory manner and then departed for the dressing room but Tommy and Pat Bonner both made a point of staying out on the pitch until they had signed for every child in the queue.

Will there be a minutes silence before our game tomorrow?

Just had an e-mail from Mike Smith and at the request of the SPL there will be a one minutes applause before all the games tomorrow.  Fitting tribute.  :clapping03: :clapping03:

I agree Tommy was an entertainer. A minutes applause is very fitting.