Thursday, June 07, 2007

Playing football with bandages for boots

In the mid-1930s, an Indian international by the name of Abdul-Salim Bachi Khan arrived in Glasgow to play for Celtic.

However, what caught the eye of the locals was not his talents, but the bandages he wore on his feet instead of boots ... apparently, that was the custom where he came from.

Still, he figured twice for the reserves in 1936, scoring a penalty against Hamilton.

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