TOM BOYD hopes that the strength of character and unshakable determination which allowed Stiliyan Petrov to forge a successful career at Celtic will now help the 32 year-old win his battle against acute leukaemia.
The news of the illness has hit Boyd – who was captain of the Parkhead club when the teenage Petrov first arrived in Glasgow in 1999 – very hard.
Boyd has seen former Motherwell team-mates Davie Cooper, Phil O'Donnell, Paul McGrillen and Jamie Dolan all have their lives end tragically early. And, of course, only four years ago, ex-Celtic player and one of Boyd's managers at Parkhead, Tommy Burns, also lost his battle with skin cancer when just 51.
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