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The natives of Aberdeen are no strangers to adverse weather conditions. Gale force winds in spring? No problem. Rain of biblical proportions in summer? Likewise. In 1978 however, a tornado struck The Granite City with such force its impact reverberated throughout the whole of Scottish football for the best part of a decade. Nothing could’ve prepared them for it and for better and worse, things would never be the same again. Billy McNeill spent a solitary season managing Aberdeen before he upped sticks and headed back south to Glasgow to replace the legendary Jock Stein. McNeill’s hero status with Celtic,
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