Hoops bid fond farewell to Burns

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Family, friends and former colleagues will remember Burns at a noon service at St Mary's Church in Calton, where he was brought up.

About a mile away, thousands of fans are expected to gather outside Celtic Park where the ceremony will be relaid on giant speakers.

Tributes have poured in since Burns lost his battle against skin cancer early last Thursday morning.

Burns, who was 51, is survived by wife Rosemary, four children and a grandchild.

The lifelong Celtic fan served his club for 25 years as a player, manager and latterly youth development head and first-team coach.

He also had a successful spell as player and manager at Kilmarnock and coached Reading, Newcastle and Scotland, who he played for eight times.

Former Celtic skipper Danny McGrain, who also worked in the youth set-up in recent years, showed the strength of feeling Burns invoked.

"I loved Tommy Burns," McGrain said. "You meet some people and you like them, but Tommy was someone that I loved.

"I got to realise that during the early 1980s, although I wouldn't have told him that. But he was just one of those people that you just can't help but love. He was a helpful guy and his memory will live on within this club."