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The Football Show · 15 November 2026
Tommy Burns told me Fergus was 'as tight as a drum' and wouldn't pay £90,000 for John Robertson. Peter Martin recalls coffees with Tommy Burns, who said Fergus refused to spend 90,000 on John Robertson in a season where they lost only one game and still lost the league. They talk about the sliding doors moment and what a goal-scorer might have changed Celtic's fortunes under Tommy Burns.
Transcript:
You know what Toby Burns told me? This is this is something that's I said it to Robbo at the time. Tom Burn and I used to go for coffees in in this h place in Clarkson just have a coffee in the morning sit and shoot the breeze about things and he said you know you know Fergus was tight as a drum you know.
And in that season where they'd only lost one game and still lost a league he had a chance to get John Robertson for 90,000 and Fergus wouldn't give him the money and he could have had Robbo one goal in one game switches it do you know what I mean and these sliding doors moments where you you want to push that boat out and looks back and kind of thinking what might have been it could have been a Robbo it could have been you know a goal scorer that suddenly just gives you that one win in the game heart's win against Livingston at Livingston the game the game's a bogey I know and you know as you say we're all really aware of that stat now that they didn't win from outside Edinburgh from January May whatever it was t-shirts canvas and prints get 10% off your first order use the code PLZ10 click on the link now and get online at the PLZ Soccer
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On The Journos, Peter Martin, Hugh MacDonald, Gordon Parks and Michael Grant on the striker Celtic didn't buy in Tommy Burns' era.
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