Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner believes Tommy Burns was destined to manage the club for a second time.
Burns took charge of Celtic between 1994 and 1997, winning the Scottish Cup in 1995.
Bonner, speaking 10 years after the death of Burns from melanoma, says he would have returned a better manager.
“Celtic was in his DNA. I’ve no doubts, if he’d lived on, he would have had another chance to be manager again,” Bonner told BBC Scotland.
“Because he was learning – he almost went back to the academy to learn a little bit more of his trade, but he had all that experience then.
“When he got the job initially, maybe it was a little bit too early for him, but saying that nobody – not the likes of Tommy Burns anyway – could knock it back at that point in time.
“It’s just a pity that he was up against a fantastic Rangers team at that time, nearly won the league, won the cup, lost out the following year and then he was gone and he should have stayed on – there’s no question in my mind.”
Burns replaced Lou Macari at the beginning of the 1994-95 season, but in three seasons was unable to wrestle the title away from Walter Smith’s Rangers.
