The photo above, of queues out the door of the Celtic Ticket Office this morning, are a consequence of what happened 49 years ago today in the photo below.
It is impossible to overstate the cultural, sporting and social impact of this event on millions of lives. You are in for a year of unadulterated indulgence. Enjoy every minute of it and if you meet a Lisbon Lion, make sure he hears what he did for you.
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Unfortunately I have no memories of that day due to the fact that I wasn’t born until December of the following year. My father told me that everyone in our block was out celebrating after the game with the Rangers fan next door bringing out beer for all. I recall going to an evening at St Anthony’s primary school (my school) with my father to watch a film show of the final and Scottish cup final,must have been the mid 70s. No videos or downloads in those days just a projector.
Hello again all you young rebels.
My goodness there is some amount of old farts on here right
enough, and here’s another one.
49 years ago today i was walking my wee da along the Paisley
rd west to catch his Gorbals bus to Lisbon, he had his Celtic
scarf proudly round his shoulders to let all the stickies know
where he was going, me, well i had already met my wee princess
and decided we were tying the knot so money was very tight and
as i had started working life as an apprentice joiner i was doing
odd jobs after work for our wedding , i’d been covering the old
tenement doors with hardboard as that was the in thing to do
then for friends of the family and the patriarch was a big Irishman
from Cork, i decided i would finish off the last door and then watch
the game that night at his families house.
It was an admirable plan but with the excitement of the game and
the possibility of our club being champions of Europe and probably
too much whisky the final whistle sent us all into a kind of madness
and the big ghuy aimed a punch at my newly finished door and
proved that hardboard was the wrong name for that type of door
covering as his massive fist went right through it, but who cared,we
were the first British club to win the big cup, anybody could fix a door.
Happy birthday COWIEBHOY & HANA SKYE.
H.H M ICK
WeeMinger
Cracker :-)) Ya wee rascal.
I hope I haven’t chased you off, Tractorbhoy by saying that we are probably, no must be, related.
I don’t remember much about the game as I was only just turned one. We lived in Janefield Street and Canon Michael was one of the priests at St. Michael’s. I remember when it was too wet for PE, he would bring in film of the Leeds semi final and we would watch in the school hall. He was a scary man (would put the fear of God into you, literally), but had a bit of cool about him as it was rumoured he would train with Celtic. We had the Lisbon game on cinefilm, in the house. I remember it in colour but I couldn’t tell you if the film was b&w or not!
I also remember having a footballer Jinky keyring. Why Jinky? – cos you couldn’t get the ball off him.
50th -Anniversary Lisbon Lions Concert at Celtic Park
Rod Stewart
U2
Simple Minds
Primal Scream
Mogwai
Paolo Nutini
The Pogues
Christie Moore
……..in fact make it a weekend festival:))))
Ard Macha
Thanks for that.
Be great to see you and the wee fella again for a beer.
Just let me know when your back over
Kikinthenakas
The Token Tim
We’re lucky to have you.
Hail! Hail!
DHARMA BAM
I’m sure I played against AC MILANDA in the Saturday morning league.
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I tried to hitch hike it to Lisbon but got lost in France (theme for a song?)
Got back to London the day before the game and got the bus from Waterloo, I think, overnight.
At that time I lived in Carmyle Avenue, just up from London Road.
The driver dropped me at the top of the avenue even though it was a direct bus to Glasgow, on Hamilton Road about 7 in the morning.
I had a wee sleep and remember it was really long day until kick off. After the cup presentation I ran up the road to my sisters waving my Celtic scarf over my head.
The street was empty apart from me. It was almost ghostly.
When I arrived at my sisters I was greetin’ like a baby!
I remember the next day I was up early and ran to the papershop to buy the newsies.
Breakfast was a wonderful experience reading the reports and the front page stories. I remember the press was as not being biased against us at that time, though that may have been down to my youth and inexperience.
Walked in to Celtic Park to see the Bhoys return with the cup. What a night.
What memories!
Thank you Celtic and thanks Mum and Dad for bringing me up in the faith.
God bless you.
I see we are linked with Tom Carroll who is being freed by Spurs.
I’m sure I saw him play a few times and thought he was no bad.
Emdy?
LENNYBHOY
I am playing golf with a stranger off the internet tomorrow!
Thanks for the introduction!
Thomas James “Tom” Carroll (born 28 May 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur.
He plays as a deep-lying creative central midfielder, and is particularly valued for his high passing percentage accuracy and creativity.[3] His style of play has drawn comparisons with former teammate Luka Modrić.[4]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Whit is wi’ Brendan Rodgers and players the same size as him:)))
Philbhoy,
Re Carroll.
No anither bloody midfielder. (kidding)
It’s only a link and I’ll believe it when I see it but tidy player. Bit of promise there.
I seen him against Qaribag and looked v tidy.
HH
Starry,
You are selling him 7cms short.
Makes all the difference.
Finarrfinarr csc
Tell you what , reading the recollections of 67, an awful lot of us were 8 years old when the big cup was won!
TNT
I was 17, now 67.
A damn fine age to be!
TWISTS N TURNS on 25TH MAY 2016 3:38 PM
Unfortunately I was 17 at the time, making me a bit of an old stager!
49ersCSC
Philbhoy -beat me to it! I do agree tho’ ;)
Thanks for the info re Carroll.
GEORDIE MUNRO
I have been known to indulge in the occasional size lie:))
GERRYBHOY
I always thought you were younger!
:-)
Philbhoy
First time I played the CQN golf day everyone was a stranger. Played with Vargas Shampoo and Timmy7. Great guys.
Brilliant day, got home around midnight, several pints better off. Later heard Timmy7 got home to a frantic Mrs Timmy7 and local police on alert as she’d suddenly panicked at dinner time knowing only that her man had left at 8am to go somewhere in Fife to meet people from the internet!! :-)
Interestingly in contrast Mrs BlantyreKev looked disappointed when I got home, and that expression seems to have stuck.
Philbhoy:Gerrybhoy
I’m sure you both still feel 17!
Ha ha, Thanks!
Will be 67 in 2 weeks time. :))
25/05/67 in Lisbon . Today in The Bank Dublin celebrating my 70 th birthday week , still drinking , still remembering ,still celebrating HH
Gerrybhoy
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I met you at the races ?
You didn’t look a day over 58. ( I’m not gonna say you look younger than me so 58 it is:-)
I was 17 as well in 1967. Obviously a good year for intelligent and handsome Tims!!-))
Decent insight into Carroll here
http://hotspurhq.com/2016/05/22/tottenham-end-of-season-review-tom-carroll/
From what I have seen of him he would be a good buy
HH
TWISTS N TURNS on 25TH MAY 2016 3:47 PM
Gerrybhoy
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I met you at the races ?
That might have been at Hamilton; maybe 4 or 5 years ago?
BLANTYREKEV
My first meeting with any CQN’ers was Pablo’s funeral in Falkirk.
There seemed to be hunners of them.
MWD introduced me to loads of them and to say I was quite overawed is probably an understatement.
I remember when I was going to the Hootenanny in Glasgow a couple of years ago and my daughter warned me I was meeting strangers off the internet.
Every one a gem.
Thank God for this place and Paul too.
Choons from May 67-
Skatalites – Guns of Navarone (Island )
Four Tops – Bernadette ( Tamla Motown )
Arthur Conley – Sweet Soul Music (Atlantic )
Prince Buster- Al Capone ( Blue Beat )
Electric Prunes – Get Me To The World On Time (Reprise).
Oh Yeah !
Great posts and memories of the great day…
Seeing some aul bloggers back contributing is great, nice buzz about the place.
Noticed that an MSP is suggesting that the OB@F bill should not be repelled in the aftermath of the Scottish Cup Final aftermath.
Now as the Bill was designed(?!) to tackle sectarianism. Maybe he might want to highlight examples of where the act was breached.
Maybe he could give examples of where the Police are utilizing it with reference to Saturday’s and subsequent events.
Embdee in this chap’s constituency that could fire in a letter.
I’d be interested to see how it’s being used.
The Rangers fans singing perhaps?
The Rangers inflammatory statement on Sunday perchance?
Hibs’ fans waving tricolours?
Hail Hail
Here, I know why so many of us tims were conceived in 1957, born 1958. League Cup final. 1957. Dad obviously comes home from ‘oh Hampden in the sun, Celtic 7 the Rangers 1’ and “celebrated”:-))
Gerry. Yep . PF Ayr, Chris, big John and myself.
Born 10 years after it, Great to read the posts being an ML5 and ML6 Bhoy.
Keep em coming.
KLV
Twisty,
didn’t back a single winner that day and haven’t been back since!
Any rangers with a video or images up on social media that incriminates fellow rangers fans get them deleted now.
The above is the OP on the Rangers Media forum.
Loyal, dignified, criminal to the end.
I was 23 at the time.
The same age range as most of the Lions.
I was 8 also.
My mother was ill at the time so we took the telly through to her bedroom – shoogled the ariel a bit as you did in those days to get a passable picture. I watched the game with my dad and sister camped around my mums bed. I was in tears at half time so got down on my knees and said my prayers – it must have worked, so you can all thank me for turning things round.
Sadly all three of my viewing companions that evening have passed away, so its always a wee bit poignant when I think about it.
But what a great day to be a Tim.