govansw1 326 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Jim Baxter left us on Saturday 14th April 2001... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 339 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Best player I've seen play for us, truly world class. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky. 6,920 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Before my time. My grandfather and father spoke of him like a true, true great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Dangerously 7,562 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Legend Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachothelegend 1,932 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Wonderful Wonderful Player. RIP Slim. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart54 218 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Was lucky enough to get see him when he returned to Rangers from Notts Forest.A True Blue Rangers Legend.R.I.P. Slim Jim. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 16,933 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 I lost my first two heroes within a couple of weeks - Jim Baxter then my old man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxieman 14 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 The best left footer the game has ever had ....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I had the great pleasure of watching this man on many occasions, and meeting him a few times as well.Genius, pure genius. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hubbard 280 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Best player I've seen play for us, truly world class.I'd agree with that.....certainly on his first time round.......think we paid £40K to Raith Rovers for him..might be wrong though...memory isn't what it used to be Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy9Millar 9 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 The transfer fee was around £17,000 about a fortnight after he had orchestrated a 2 - 3 victory for Raith at Ibrox and ended the career of good old Willie Telfer. Raith had been 2 - 0 down.Never saw Baxter play badly in his first spell but he was finished and no longer slim when he came back.An annoying bugger at times. Always wanted to tease the opposition instead of getting more goals. As soon as Rangers were two goals up it was playtime. But he was truly, truly magic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillete 1,338 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Fantastic playerA genius Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxterboy 476 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 my two proudest moments as a scot were:watching Slim Jim in 1963 with ma old man at wembley when he demolished england with brilliant football vision and phenomenal skills and we played the game with only ten men. he scored both of the goals but nothing sums up his character more than this:during the game he said he was gonna score an own goal - just to say he'd got a hat-trick at Wembley. he didn't do it coz Denis Law told him he'd kill him if I did.and humiliating england after they won the world cup. after the game Baxter turned to Alan Ball and asked him:Are you not ashamed to be on the same pitch as me? now, i don't really condone arrogance, but it is forgiven when dished out to the english - who, as we all know, personify it. but what i loved about Jim the most was how he relished nothing more than taking the piss out of septic on a regular basis - he only lost 2 games in five years of old firm matches.and what an experience it was as a Rangers supporter to see him playing them in the 1963 Scottish Cup Final replay; there we we with three goals up and 30 minutes left, Jim was in the middle of the park, taunting and humiliating them - playing 'keepy-uppy', nutmegging, and sitting on the ball while the birth of the "Easy, Easy" chant reverberated around hampden as their end started emptying.pure fucking magic!and again, Jim, cheers for the hauf croons! RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeReadyStu 70 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Before my time, my dad however says he's the best he's ever seen in a Rangers shirt, and a lot of people echo the same sentiments. Sad that all I've seen of him are video clips really, would have loved to see him in the flesh. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart54 218 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 my two proudest moments as a scot were:watching Slim Jim in 1963 with ma old man at wembley when he demolished england with brilliant football vision and phenomenal skills and we played the game with only ten men. he scored both of the goals but nothing sums up his character more than this:during the game he said he was gonna score an own goal - just to say he'd got a hat-trick at Wembley. he didn't do it coz Denis Law told him he'd kill him if I did.and humiliating england after they won the world cup. after the game Baxter turned to Alan Ball and asked him:Are you not ashamed to be on the same pitch as me? now, i don't really condone arrogance, but it is forgiven when dished out to the english - who, as we all know, personify it. but what i loved about Jim the most was how he relished nothing more than taking the piss out of septic on a regular basis - he only lost 2 games in five years of old firm matches.and what an experience it was as a Rangers supporter to see him playing them in the 1963 Scottish Cup Final replay; there we we with three goals up and 30 minutes left, Jim was in the middle of the park, taunting and humiliating them - playing 'keepy-uppy', nutmegging, and sitting on the ball while the birth of the "Easy, Easy" chant reverberated around hampden as their end started emptying.pure fucking magic!and again, Jim, cheers for the hauf croons! RIP.Didnt Slim Jim continually ask Alan Ball during the game if Jimmy Clitheroe was his dad? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxterboy 476 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Didnt Slim Jim continually ask Alan Ball during the game if Jimmy Clitheroe was his dad? considering ball's size, or rather lack of it, it would've been quite appropriate.but i think it might have been nobby stiles he asked:"who're you, son? jimmy clitheroe? while dribbling around him.it should be noted that baxter's comment to Ball were most probably a reaction to an arrogant fleet street bastard who said before the game:"the Jocks didn't deserve to be on the same pitch as Sir Alf Ramsey's world champions seeing as they weren't much better than Luxembourg". Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMac 1,405 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 This is the last ten minutes of Baxters wembley match Always great to watch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spireblue 229 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Best player I've seen play for us, truly world class.agreed.absolute genius on the ball. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billtjw 20 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 he GREATEST Rangers player ever bar no one who came before or after. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxieman 14 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Some of us may even have been at the 1963 game against Real Madrid at Ibrox ( we lost 1-0). It was reported that after the game the famous Ferenc Puskas went up to Slim and said "Whisky, whisky, jiggy, jiggy".(the extent of his English). Slim took him to a party in Drumchapel after the game - a council house. So, folks going to the party walked in to find not only Baxter but also Puskas..............they became great pals after that. Cannae make this stuff up.Slim = a true Legend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiserJon 12,317 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 This is the last ten minutes of Baxters wembley match Always great to watch.Thanks for the video great watch-my dad used to talk about Slim Jim and I never saw him play, unlike dad who went all through the late 50's and 60's-what would be called an uber in modern terms Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiserJon 12,317 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 The Scotland team who ran onto the Wembley pitch on 11 April 1967, included four players who would go on to win European Cup medals in Lisbon one month later, and two Rangers players who would lose to Bayern Munich in the European Cup-Winners' Cup final the same week. Added to this base were three players who walk into any all-time greatest Scotland 11; Baxter, Law and Bremner.Nicked that from a BBC thing-note none of the Celtic players are mentioned regards the walking into a greatest team! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxterboy 476 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Some of us may even have been at the 1963 game against Real Madrid at Ibrox ( we lost 1-0).Slim = a true Legend.i was at the game. this real madrid team was arguably the best club team in the history of football. yet, i was astonished how we played against them that night - we were really all over them and played them off the park but just couldn't put the ball in the net. Then, in a rare madrid attack near the end of the match - wham! a stunning fuckin volley from puskas from around the 18 yard box - game over.the stadium was absolutely stunned at the injustice.my only consolation - and it was a big one :i regularly watched the games in 'davy wilson's corner', and i was there the day we raised the league flag.a pic of the flag raising was the front cover for the Rangers v Real programme, and there i was - right in the front wi the tammy oan, wavin the scarf and giving it laldy.still goat the programme. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgzybear 6 Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Never seen him play but there's been a painting of the man in my room since the day I was born and he is one of my grandas and dads favourite ever players. RIP Jim Baxter. Wish I had got to see you play in the flesh Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxieman 14 Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 i was at the game. this real madrid team was arguably the best club team in the history of football. yet, i was astonished how we played against them that night - we were really all over them and played them off the park but just couldn't put the ball in the net. Then, in a rare madrid attack near the end of the match - wham! a stunning fuckin volley from puskas from around the 18 yard box - game over.the stadium was absolutely stunned at the injustice.my only consolation - and it was a big one :i regularly watched the games in 'davy wilson's corner', and i was there the day we raised the league flag.a pic of the flag raising was the front cover for the Rangers v Real programme, and there i was - right in the front wi the tammy oan, wavin the scarf and giving it laldy.still goat the programme.Let's not discuss the return game ;-))))Watched it on TV - Di Stefano did us if I recall.You're right - they were a hell of a team.But as you say, we played well at home. I remember the stunned silence!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxterboy 476 Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Let's not discuss the return game ;-))))...........ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....can't remember the return leg as clearly for some reason. the one thing i do vaguely recall is that scot symon, for some strange reason, filled the team with young dudes. could be mistaken, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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