Vandals have destroyed tributes to Celtic legend, Billy McNeill, put up in his honour just hours before his funeral takes place in Glasgow.
The Celtic legend, who captained the famous Lisbon Lions side that won the European Cup in 1967 in Lisbon, died last month aged 79.
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He also managed Celtic after his playing career.
Tributes have flooded in for McNeill ahead of his funeral which takes place today at 11.30am in Glasgow City Centre.
Following his funeral, the cortege will then proceed to Celtic Park, arriving at around 1.30pm, with thousands expected to be there to pay their respects to the man fondly known as Cesar.
It has since come to light that posters of the legend have been wrecked in the city.
Hoops fan page Celtic FC To The Core shared two images of the disturbing damage online.
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One shows a posted covered in red paint while other has been ripped off a wall in the Merchant City entirely.
In a post, the page said: “Received a message this morning and been asked to share this - a mate of mines mate has just gone a cycle past Celtic park and noticed some vile scumbag has vandalized the McNeill posters that have been put up along the route of the funeral ..if anyone knows who put the posters up could you let them know or if anyone could fix it...be horrible for the McNeill family to see this…
“This is absolutely shocking and no need it's vile! There is some low life people out there !!”
Thousands of fans have come together to condemn the sick acts.
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