Willie Henderson (born 24 January 1944, in Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire) is a retired Scottish football player. He played most of his career for Rangers, and spent the latter part of his career with Sheffield Wednesday, in Hong Kong with Hong Kong Rangers and with Airdrieonians. He was a prolific winger. He also featured at international level for Scotland. He is regarded as one of the best wingers ever to grace the Scottish game. Rangers Henderson made his career debut in 1960 at the age of 16. He was very pacey on the right wing and as he was at a small height of 5 foot and 4 inches he became known as 'Wee Willie'. Henderson also had bad eyesight and he wore contact lenses. People found this amusing as they would often wonder how much better he would have been had his eyesight been better. Legend has it that late on in an Old Firm encounter he inquired on the sidelines, "How long to go, how long to go?" Jock Stein replied: "Go and

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