In a excerpt from his new autobiography, Scotland ace Murdo MacLeod recalls memories of his time working with former Hoops manager Wim Jansen and the Rod Stewart song that reduced him to tears at his funeral. Wim Jansen was the best I ever worked with, yet he arrived in Scotland to be faced with a tidal wave of apathy and downright hostility.
But Wim somehow managed to rise above it all. One day when we were at Celtic together, Wim said to me: “Do you like Rod Stewart?” I replied: “Yes, of course.”Wim asked me if I liked Rod’s recording of a song called For the First Time.
I had to admit I had never heard of it and he nearly exploded. When Wim’s funeral took place on January 29, 2022, my wife Mhairi and I attended the service in Rotterdam.
We went to pieces when they played it at the funeral as the coffin was brought into the room.It carried a strong emotional attachment for Wim and his beloved wife, Coby, dating from the first time they had met.
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