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- 1 2 MacDonald, Hugh I’ve travelled half a million miles in my years here... It’s time to go Archived 19 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine , The Herald, 29 September 2007
- ↑ Reid named as new Celtic chairman BBC News, 28 September 2007
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