An incredibly flawed legend, 1 Sep 2003

The famous Wembley game of 1967 when Baxter would rather play keepie-uppie - "lets take the piss out of them" - than push for more goals against the new World Champions. He was a supremely confident player.

In some respects the story has been told before through many tabloid tales, so some famous anecdotes are already well known, though still hilarious.

What Gallacher does well is piece the stories together and show how Baxter was allowed to go off the rails, as long as he produced the goods on the pitch, until the monster created went on to destroy himself.

An interesting and amusing tale of a tragic loss to the game of football but Baxter's wish to do it his way prevailed.

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