The Lions of Lisbon

Best ever Scottish club side, and by some distance too.

Well said, REDROB.

I often think of Tommy Gemmell's 20 yard piledriver as I watch paint dry in the modern day "superstar" era. Pretty diamond passing and no entertainment, unless one enjoys Premier League synchronised diving, starring Maddison and Grealish.

Hate the way the games gone, so much better when 4 real wingers were on the pitch.

Crikey!
This brings it all back....
My best mates at junior school's surnames were Collins and Dolan, and whenever someone said about
Man U being the first English team to win the European Cup (in '68), the two named above would cry,"but Celtic were
the first Scottish AND British team to win it!"

Brilliant days!

Bertie Auld was magnificent in the final.  I still look down the terrace and up, when I occasionally pass, at the door of the house/flat in which I watched that match and it all comes flooding back.  It could easily have been 5 or 6-1, so anointed was their goalkeeper Sarti that night.

Fantastic replies and memories, everyone.

Bertie Auld, Tommy Gemmell, Billy McNeill - what names to conjure with and admire.

No comparison with the modern business - you can't call it a game these days - with leeches and locusts running it for self interests.

My suggestion for low mood - stick on You Tube and watch some footage of pretty much any football from the 60s and 70s - take your pick - George Best, Denis Law, Ron **** "The Collosus", Banks' save from Pele - works most of the time and brings a smile.

The asterisks should have said Y eats, don't know if I typed something rude in error so it got deleted. I'm getting old!!

Watch the Chelsea - Leeds 1970 FA cup final on there Bonnie, both games, you'll love em.

Will do REDROB, although as I remember, both games were X rated, especially the replay. How nobody got sent off, I don't know. For all that, though, we still talk about the matches over 50 years after they were played. With most of the modern day garbage, I have difficulty recalling them the next day!! Sterile and insipid. I haven't been to a game since 2001, England v Ukraine at the old proper and only real Wembley, complete with the iconic twin towers, unlike today's equivalent which could be a clone of anywhere, along with the burgers and beer for which you need to take out another mortgage.

About the only footy on tv back then.

FA cup final, home internationals, and british
teams in euro cup finals. Add in world cup too.

No wonder we treasure those memories as there were
some good competitive football matches.

Wall to wall tika taka these days, not so much
fun to watch.

I still remember seeing celtic game, and man utd
game. Then celtic final again when they lost.

Huge huge games, and so influential on the way
we wanted to play at school too.

Celtics goalie, Ronnie Simpson, was a hero
in these parts for his part in winning 2 fa cups
with Newcastle.

Going further back he played for great Britain
in 1948 London Olympics.

Quite a link to the further past.

Great stuff, you-have-to-laugh. Agree with all you say. Wonderful memories.

Ronnie Simpson did a back pass, i.e.put his foot on the ball and used his studs to roll it back behind him to a Celtic colleague, outside his box when being pressured by Mazzola I think it was, at a crucial stage of the game. Totally non-plussed the Italian. Highly risky.  Stein was apparently most unimpressed. One film record catches it, one doesn't. According to wee Jinky he gestured to Fachetti as the sides walked onto the park.  Jimmy tried to get across that he wanted to swop jerseys when the game was finished.  It didn;t work and Fachetti thought he was taking the proverbial.  Jimmy had a quiet night (by his standards) and to his credit was fulsome in his praise of the midfield players who he said were most responsible for the great win.  True or not I don;t know but big Jock got stuck into Herrera at half time over some perceived sleight.  A bit of psychology probably to show his players there was nothing to fear.  Ironically, in that season's "pre-season" Stein had gone to Milan for a four day visit to watch how they trained and to see how Inter did things.  One of those odd co-incidences.

A great team and a great achievement

55 years on Monday since United became the first English team to lift the European cup

Unfortunately in two weeks time the other Manchester team will probably win it

Watched it as a wee primary schoolboy. A Thursday evening as I recall?

I think it was.  Sunny over there. decent here, parts of Glasgow like a ghost town.  Streets emptier than a lockdown!