Inter were an incredible side. They were top of the Italian league and aiming for their fourth title win in five seasons. The one time they lost was after a play-off. The European Cup had become as much their domain as the Italian title. Having won it in 1964 and 1965, they lost the previous season’s semi-final in controversial manner to Real Madrid after some debatable refereeing. Reigning champions, Real, would suffer retribution, losing home and away to Inter in the ’67 quarter final. No team in European history had been so dominant. Real won five European Cups in a row but could not combine that with the kind of domestic domination this Inter team enjoyed.
On the morning on 25 May 1967 they were truly the most formidable team in history.
The game has to be seen to be believed. We won the European Cup, you know that, but HOW we won it is the most startling thing. I was a teenager when the first ‘video recorded’ arrived in the house. Soon thereafter a copy of The Celtic Story was purchased. I knew the legend but nothing prepared me for the onslaught, I’d never seen a football team destroy opponents in this way.
A CQN’er kindly prepared the stats for us:
Total shots – Celtic 45, Inter 3
Shots on target – Celtic 16, Inter 3
Shots off target – Celtic 29 (3 against the woodwork), Inter 0
Possession – Celtic 64%, Inter 36%
Crosses into opponents box – Celtic 40, Inter 4
Corners – Celtic 10, Inter 0
Successful passes – Celtic 310, Inter 224
Misplaced passes – Celtic 49, Inter 79
Passbacks to goalkeeper – Celtic 7, Inter 20
Fouls Committed – Celtic 19, Inter 21
Offsides – Celtic 5, Inter 1
No prizes for guessing the top two passers, Bobby Murdoch (60) and Bertie Auld (51) but it surprised me that John Clark and Jim Craig came joint third with 43 each, considerably higher than Tommy Gemmell (27), next on the list.
Someone suggested to me that the European Champions tournament had been devalued by a team winning by ‘parking the bus’ in front of their own goal. I disagree. This is football, spoiling has always been part of the game and the Champions Final is not always pretty, which makes the special times all the more special.
Someone lifts that cup every year, but few have done so with such devastating style as the Lisbon Lions.
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BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 25 May, 2012 at
His bitterness has consumed him and he by his own actions has condemned himself to a very sad and lonely future, imagine walking up every morning knowing you have sold your soul..
Say a prayer for him it’s the greatest gift you could give him..
I know that on a day like today we shouldn’t make reference to the hun but on the way to work I heard that Hinge and Bracket have said that creditors will receive news of their CVA proposal either this afternoon or Monday at the latest.
Should we be concerned about this?
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Jock+Stein+-+Quotes
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One of my favourite songs!
They say that ‘Terry’ & ‘Julie’ refer to Terence Stamp & Julie Christie,it bein’ the 60’s an’ aw that.
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miki67
God bless him.
And now I can her the grass grow by The Move in chart position No. 13 ..unlucky for some .. will it be for Celtic FC tonight ?
See the people all in line, what’s making them look at me?
I can’t imagine that their minds are thinking the same like me
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
My head’s attracted to a magnetic wave of sound
With a stream of coloured circles making their way around
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
Can’t seem to puzzle out the signs
My senses form a micro-line
So get a hold of yourself, now baby
You see I need you to help, now baby
Get a hold of yourself, now baby
Put your head down to the ground and listen to your mind
If you can’t spell what you find I’ll know that you’re not my kind
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
Can’t seem to puzzle out the signs
My senses form a micro-line
So get a hold of yourself, now baby
You see I need you to help, now baby
Get a hold of yourself, now baby
See the people all in line, what’s making them look at me?
I can’t imagine that their minds are thinking the same like me
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
I can hear the grass grow, I can hear the grass grow
I see rainbows in the evening
Personification poetry…
……and as the players emerged from the tunnel, the grass waved like thousands of Celtic supporters on a terrace in Lisbon……
No’ bad for an 11 year old!!
I remember the video that came out and 92 and the guy who at Lisbon Airport after the game met Herrera and asked him to sign his programme, which he did and got the Inter team to do the same. Back home he got all the Lions to do the same.
How much must that be worth now????
Matt McGinn
Son of Warsaw on 25 May, 2012 at 11:11 said:
”We’re the boys who shook up Lisbon
We showed Inter some of our tricks”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umdd1OX-dKQ
Who knows the words to the GB’s ‘champions of 67’ song? Dont know the words and im in the mood to sing it aloud, so I can impress myself.
And what do we think of the new paddy mccourt tune? Think its a quality wee tune meself!
21.05.1979 Ten men won The League (tra-la-la-la-la)
25.05.1967 European Champions and domestic sweep
Can’t wait for the start of next season and then to see us win in May 2013
Forca Barca tonight. Pep’s last game
STARRY PLOUGH 1133
You are clearly a better man than I.
The only gift I could offer him which he might find useful is one of those trick fairground mirrors.
It-like many proper mirrors-might work in two ways.
1-It will make him look younger and thinner.
2-It might remind him of who he once was.
“In the heat of Lisbon, the fans came in their thousands.
To see the Bhoys become Champions, 67”
RobertTressell on 25 May, 2012 at 11:23 said:
wonkyradar on 25 May, 2012 at 11:15 said:
Marrakesh Express on 25 May, 2012 at 09:46 said:
I went to every home game and it wasnt untill we saw off Vojvodina (who were very good) that we felt that something big could be happening…
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Went to see the play ‘The Road to Lison’ a few years back. In it the characters agreed that the best team we played on the way to the final were Vojvodina. They said if we hadn’t beaten them that there was every chance Vojvodina would have gone on to the final.
Is that a true reflection of how the support felt at the time?
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Vojvodina certainly were the best team we had met and I was dreading the thought of a play off.
They were very good tactically and skill wise .
We made heavy weather of the first half and my brother, who came up from London for the game, bemoaned, at half time, his wasted journey.
At full time, he announced that he was going to Lisbon.
There was a feeling that after Billy’s winner, the team had moved up a level and the semi held no fear for us.
Vojvodina were a very good team and we had to dig deeper than we had ever had to dig before.
Amazing stats from an era when people never did stats,Paul.
It really was 2 – 1 going on 5 – 1.Jinky was my favourite player as a child but only a an adult I did appreciate the guile and finesse of Bobby Murdoch and Bertie Auld.
Jim Craig and Tommy Gemmell were the original maurauding full backs with Big Tam having the piledriver shot as an extra option against packed defences.
Although Real Madrid were the Artistes of this era,Inter’s cynical anti-football had prevailed in recent years.Not a lot different to the present Champions League winners compared to modern day Barca.
The sight of Chelsea’s over paid substitutes not moving aside to let the captain,Frank Lampard,raise the cup for all to see,says it all for me.The only good thing about this was that we couldn’t see Mr.Terry,who stripped into his kit faster than Clark Kent,lifting the cup with him.Yuk!
Compare this with the iconic scene of Billy McNeil lofting the European Cup,straight armed in triumph like a Roman Emperor himself.There’s the captain,there’s the cup,there’s the sunshine.Hail Ceasar!
Happy anniversary to the Lions of Lisbon.
and after all that psychedelic mind blowing music back to earth with the NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND and Finchley Central … which must surely go down as one of the greatest tunes of this century …. it just makes you happy to be alive
Finchley Central is two and sixpence
From Golders Green on the Northern Line
And on the platform, by the kiosk
That’s where you said you’d be mine
There we made a date
For hours I waited
But I’m blowed, you never showed
At Finchley Central, ten long stations
From Golders Green, change at Camden Town
I thought I’d made you, but I’m afraid you
Really let me down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMYHbN5baw
hamiltontim 11:33
They have to give the creditors 2 weeks notice which would make the first possible meeting 08th of June. That is Eight full days of players wages they cannot pay.
They are dead and buried, merely going through the motions…
Don’t forget the 28 day cooling off period… More money straight down the dunny!
Personally, I think, besides the moments when Big Billy hit the net in the 65 Final, TG equalised and Stevie Chalmers scored the winner, the header from Big Billy against Voijvodina is the best feeling I have felt as a Celtic supporter.
awe naw.
Mammas and papas
Dont know if anyone ever saw a documentary about Argentinian football, about 20 years ago. It was made by Argentine TV and was subtitle translated. There was a fascinating part in it where they cover the Racing Club v Celtic World Club Championship in 67. The subtitle went something close to this…’Glasgow Celtic came to Buenes Aries with a one goal lead. Now we had the chance to get revenge over the British bulldog after alf Ramsay shamed our nation in 66 by calling us animals. Antonio Rattin may have crushed the Union jack but in Montevideo we finally rammed it down their throats’
…..eh? Heavy stuff from the Argies but the show’s producer obviously dogged he history classes. Now we know why they kicked us off the park! There was no way Celtic could have won the tie. We’d never have got out of South America alive. Even the equalising header from Artime in the second leg was 4 yards offside. The treatment of Jinky had to be seen to be believed. Robert Kelly called it correct in my opinion, when he wanted to take the team home after that game. Simpson being felled by a missile pre-match should have told them what was to come. My greatest all-time hero is Jock Stein but I’m afraid the big man called it wrong by talking Kelly into playing the third match. Man Utd, Feyenoord, Ajax and AC Milan all suffered the same treatment but none as bad as us.
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BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 25 May, 2012 at 11:41 said:
In such situations I just think what would Jesus Johnstone do!!
Hail Hail..
For those who don’t know:
dunny=kludgie=bog=ibrox
1967 –
Lisbon and Forever Changes
Two of my bare necessities
WallaceGemmell
How funny would it be if HMRC or Ticketus agreed to the CVA then changed their mind on the 28th day?
I note that D&P are considering appealing the transfer embargo through the courts rather than via the court of arbitration of sport.
This is a very risky manouevre as far as I’m concerned. Not because of the UEFA/FIFA stance on football bringing the courts into, although that is important.
It’s risky because the panel already said it gave serious consideration to expelling Rangers altogether. If D&P appeal and the appeal is successful on the basis that the sanction was not listed in the array of punishments available, then it leaves the panel with little choice but to expel them. The basis being that while it’s severe, it’s the most appropriate punishment available from the listed sanctions.
It’s for that reason that I think D&P won’t bother.
Cheers hamiltontim. Cant believe I didnt know that tune. I thought there were verses and chorus to it. A great wee tune tho!
All hail the lions
Those stats are mindblowing.
And from The Move to the sensational Warm Moves with Birds and the Bees … What could they be singing about I wonder ….
There you are in the corner
No it’s no use, you hiding from me
Cause I know that you want me
It’s easily plain to see
What’s the difference
You’re sitting on the cold hard floor
So I wish you’d decide to come here by my side
For a kiss and a cuddle with me
Don’t be affraid, come with me please
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Don’t be affraid, come with me please
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Sorry dear, I can see you
By the twinkle that shines in your eyes
No I don’t think it’s starlight
It’s your passion for me that I spy
Please remember
My words are not the same old lies
When I asked you to late in the heat and the haze
By my side on this beautiful day
Look at the sky, look at the trees
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Look at the sky, look at the trees
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Please remember
My words are not the same old lies
When I asked you to laze in the heat and the haze
By my side on this beautiful day
Look at the sky, look at the trees
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Look at the sky, look at the trees
That’s all there is to the birds and the bees
Tamlaghtduff Bhoy
In the heat of Lisbon…The fans came in their thousands…To see the bhoys become. CHAMPIOOOONNNS 67!!
A woman says to her husband ‘we’ve never discussed whether you want to be buried or cremated when you die’
the man replies ‘Surprise me!’
There was a playful arrogance, a swagger, a bold confidence to the Lions- particularly that day- but you just had a sense they were never going to lose that game. Like Paul said in his article, placing the game in the context of European football history, Celtic’s victory is so very famous because it is epoch defining. Stein had found the formula for demolishing the seemingly impregnable Catenaccio style of Herrera: it was the immortal moment when romantics everywhere felt a sense of triumph. It wasn’t only that they had beaten such a great side but the manner in which they did it, upholding the highest ideals of Big Jock’s vision of the game: swashbuckling, cavalier, an audacious expressiveness, a flamboyance & a swaggering style of free football conquered the rigid, limiting, suffocating ultra-defensiveness of Inter’s “bolt-door” style- effectively destroying the awed mythology of Inter’s perceived invincibility. It was a celebration of light over darkness: Inter had held football hostage to its restricting tactics & now Celtic had liberated it from captivity.
“…I’ve never seen a team on the attack as much as this Celtic team…”
25th MAY
Zurich fell in Switzerland,
They fell in Glasgow too,
Then the French went down three one each
time,
And bid the Cup adieu.
The ‘slavs won at home but went down two
one,
And the Czech’s were sent their way,
And the Celts were bound for Lisbon town,
On the 25th of May.
Twelve Thousand loyal Celtic fans,
In bus and train and car,
Traveled Eighteen Hundred miles to see,
The greatest team by far.
They came to cheer on the boys in green,
And help them win the day,
And beat Inter Milan in Lisbon Town,
On the 25th of May.
The game was only eight minutes gone,
When Inter Milan they scored,
If they tried from then to hard my bhoys,
They couldn’t have scored one more.
And when half time came with the score the
same,
The Celts did not dismay,
They would win the top in Lisbon Town,
On the 25th of May.
A goal must come and come it did,
And Gemmell was our man,
Then Chalmers scored and the Celtic roar,
Was heard by gay Milan.
There’s been battles won by our Celtic
Son’s,
But they showed the world the way,
When they beat Milan in Lisbon Town,
On the 25th of May.
So here’s to Simpson, Clark and Craig,
To Johnstone and McNeill,
To Chalmers, Wallace and Lennox, Auld,
For they refused to yield.
And here’s to Murdoch and Gemmell too,
To Stein who showed the way,
To the greatest team who showed the
world,
On the 25th of May.
On the 25th of May.
SOAL-Cheers,i put horsey info on for twists n’ turns.
Honest Mistake @ 11.07 — yep, still in SW4 & working in W8 (if you can call this “work”). Students all in exams this morning so free to indulge in CQN for a wee change! I’d love to meet up altho’ I’m away next week in Rome avoiding the Royal nonsense and, at the end of June, in East Africa where I hope, thanks to P67, to meet the Kibera Celts. So, maybe June 8th or soon thereafter? HH.
If you had to pick a Man of the Match from Lisbon,it would probably be Sarti the Inter GK.Could have been 7 or 8.
“A great moment,a fantastic moment for Scottish football!”.
when are all those European teams going to kick up a stramash about all those illegible orc players for the last 11 years?
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