Your can sense Brendan has been managing his squad through testing times in the hope of having his most important players available for after this month’s international break.
I suspect Reo Hatate, Callum McGregor and Cameron Carter-Vickers will all declare themselves fit, no matter how true their claims are.
The manager knows how to win at Ibrox, he’s done it often enough. With Reo, Callum and Cameron on the field he will expect to do the same next month.
Callum and Cameron have enormous natural fitness, they reach peak form straight after a break. Reo less so. He has missed so much football this season it will take him time to hit form. At most, he’ll have 90 minutes.
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I still think that the Team of 1970 was as good, if not better, than the Lisbon Lions. If they had won, they would have been known as the Milan?
Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. I hope you are all hale and hearty.
b78 –
auld jim mooney, my hero, used to tell me that celtic should have won 2 cup winners cups and 4 european cups, blaming bent refs in budapest 64, a worse ref at anfield 66, a collective team disaster disaster in milan 70 which he did not concur with later statements that jock got it wrong he blamed the players , a penalty away from another final and possibly another bent ref, and the worst of all in his eyes the madrid game.
i think he was right.
64 –
Celtic:
Fallon; Young, Gemmell ; Clark, McNeill, Kennedy; Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, Gallacher, Hughes.
66 –
Celtic:
Simpson; Young, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Lennox, McBride, Chalmers, Auld, Hughes
67 –
Simpson ; Craig, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill John Clark; Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld, Lennox
70 –
Williams; Hay, Brogan, McNeill, Gemmell; Murdoch, Auld (Connelly); Johnstone, Lennox, Wallace, Hughes
72 –
Celtic:
Williams; Craig, McCluskey, Murdoch, McNeill, Connelly, Johnstone, Dalglish (Deans 61), Macari, Callaghan, Lennox.
74-
Celtic:
Connaghan, McGrain, Brogan, Hay, McNeill, McCluskey, Johnstone, Murray, Dalglish, Hood, Lennox.
Agree re Liverpool game and the ref.
Interesting No McGrain or Hay in 72 team and Kenny taken off after an hour.
Also much as I loved big Yogi I think Jock was too loyal to him in Milan. Also no David Hay in Milan.
That 1972 team was right and wee side.
Was there not a story that one of the Celtic players was carrying an injury in the 1970 Final (Jim Brogan?) and maybe should have been left out? Cannot remember who.
Back to Basics
You are right 1969
We beat 2 top teams in Red Star and St Ettiene. Then got the 0-0 result in Milan and Big Billy messed it up and gave away the goal to Prati.
Milan beat United and then thrashed Ajax in the final.
B78
Sitting in the San Siro I was not happy that JS played Yogi before George Connelly,IMO a big mistake
Was it because Yogi missed out in Lisbon?
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Posted by Gareth Thomas May 12, 2020
The hoops who were almost stars – Celtic in Europe 1970-74 | @Alexecky
We know Celtic were the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967 with a famous 2-1 win over Inter Milan in Lisbon, but the Glasgow side went oh so close to appearing in two other finals before the mid 1970s, and it is also 50 years since they blew their chance of winning a second EC final in three years.
In May 1970 Celtic were odds on favourites to claim a second European Cup in three years as they travelled to the San Siro in Milan to take on Feyenoord of Rotterdam. Following two battle of Britain wins against Leeds Utd which saw them triumph 3-1 on aggregate in a semi final that, for many football supporters across Europe, was the pairing that should have graced the iconic Italian venue in the final of 1970 on a rain sodden evening.
Lisbon Lion and named substitute for the 1970 final, Jim Craig, actually goes as far as to blame the furore that surrounded the hoops 1-0 and 2-1 victories over the English champions for what transpired in Italy on 6 May 1970.
My former colleague at Football Today magazine in the 1980s is still a no nonsense writer and pundit in the Scottish game, but ask the former full back about Feyenoord and it is still a regret for Craig, that Jock Stein’s Celtic were so uncharacteristically shoddy against the Dutch on the night and in their preparation for the final.
Craig says: “I think a lot of people thought the hard work had been done when we saw off Leeds at Elland Road and Hampden in the semi final.
It’s a purely personal opinion but the worst thing that happened on the run to the San Siro final was beating Leeds so comprehensively because the public thought Feyenoord weren’t in the same class. We knew it wouldn’t be a walkover but I’m afraid we underestimated them.
Somebody from Celtic would go and see them play in Holland before the final but it’s true there wasn’t the same exposure to teams outside the UK as there is now and we didn’t have a lot of information on them.”
Craig, who left Celtic for a new life in South Africa in 1972, before returning to the UK to play in English club football, continues: “Celtic number 3 Jim Brogan was injured early on in the final and was noticeably limping but he was never replaced. I’ll never work out why I wasn’t put on and David Hay moved to Jim Brogan’s position, it was a mistake, but on the day the players didn’t rise to the occasion as we had in Lisbon against a great Inter side.”
Six of the Lisbon team from 1967 started in Italy v Feyenoord with Craig, also a starter in ’67, on the bench and after defeating Basel, Benfica, Fiorentina and Leeds on the run to the final in ’70. It was Celtic who took the lead as Tommy Gemmell joined an exalted group of players to score in two separate finals as he thundered home a free kick from 25 yards to give the Scots the lead after 29 minutes.
Within three minutes Feyenoord were level via skipper Rinus Israel, and it’s true that Celtic were fortunate to be facing extra-time and possibly a second game as no penalty shoot outs existed to decide finals back then.
Swede Ove Kindvall finally gave the Dutch team the unexpected win with a couple of minutes of the extra 30 left as he nipped in to lob a long ball from a free kick over Evan Williams head in the hoops goal, as Celtic captain Billy McNeill desperately tried to handle the ball before it got to the goalscorer.
It was a crushing blow for Celtic and an opportunity for glory that should have been grasped, but two years later they ironically continued the Milan connection as they faced Inter in a European Cup semi-final second leg with the tie poised at 0-0 before the match at Parkhead.
Not even extra-time with a Partizan crowd roaring Celtic on could break the deadlock in Glasgow and with 0-0 the aggregate result, it would be penalties that would decide a Celtic match for the very first time in a major cup competition.
Five spot kicks each then sudden death if still a draw, a new concept at the time, had a television audience in Scotland on the edge of their collective seats but the hoops were always chasing the Italians in the shoot out after John ‘Dixie’ Deans drove Celtic’s first pen high over the bar.
Inter avenged the Lisbon final of 1967 with a 5-4 spot kick win on the night and went onto lose the 1972 final to Ajax, who had beaten Celtic 3-1 on aggregate, in the Quarter-finals the year before despite the hoops winning 1-0 in Glasgow.
1973 saw Celtic briefly exit centre stage as Britain’s best hope of European Cup glory as they went out early on and it was Brian Clough’s Derby County who made the last four of the top Euro competition. The English Champions would fail against Juventus who couldn’t prevent Ajax making it a hattrick of final wins.
1974 saw Celtic again on the verge of a EC final and this time Atlético Madrid would stand between the hoops and a final against Bayern Munich.
The first leg at Parkhead saw an unbelievable display of cynicism from the part Spanish/part Argentinian visiting eleven and four Atlético players were sent off, with Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone a target for some of the worst fouls you’ll ever see in any match you revisit on YouTube, and you should if not of a nervous disposition!
There is even a story of one of the Glasgow Policemen escorting the players off the pitch at the end of the first leg, as the home crowd threatened to riot, turning a blind eye to a Celtic punch in the tunnel as all hell broke loose after the game, and the surreal scenes on the night continued as the teams went down the tunnel at full time. A couple of home players took their own retribution out on opponents for what had been served up to Johnstone on the pitch and it has to be said only a Saint himself would have forgiven the visitor’s antics.
The Scottish newspapers were full of pictures of Johnstone’s bruised and battered body in the home dressing room immediately after the match the following day accompanied by stories of kicking, scratching and spitting by Atlético players off the ball and there was even a call in some quarters for the game to be declared void.
One more Atlético sending off on the night would have seen that actually happen as any of the two teams going below seven players in domestic or Euro matches meant the game was abandoned!
Sadly, justice didn’t prevail in the second game in Madrid and a much changed Atlético left the hatchet men out and brought skill in to win the game 2-0 although they ended up losing the ’74 final.
I went back to check how many changes Atletico made from the Parkhead team to their home leg and was surprised to see they only had 4 new players- Capon, Aragones, Ufarte & Becerra. 3 of those 4 changes were made because of the 3 red cards for Ayala, Quique & Diaz in the first leg.
When it came to the final versus Bayern, 5 Atletico players from the first leg remained but they made even more changes for the final. The 3 red carded players never appeared again in the final or replayed final
ET in Madrid
Incredible game
Paul:
I notice you’ve had very little to say in your daily articles since the son of your sponsor and for whom you are his mouthpiece was boufed out?
Yes, we know it takes time to get rid of a plc chairman. The corporate governance optics of Nepotism FC have been atrocious for a long time.
Dundee in top six
Aberdeen heading towards a play-off in relegation zone.
Oil capital of Europe for nearly forty years, Aberdeen has lost the highest per capita income since the Tories got back in power. Town a shambles, Stuart Milne Homes rack up £189 million debt, as a housebuilder for heavens sake, and Aberdeen FC have had two new stadium plans, one in the South, and one to the West of the City, both gathering dust. And Dave Cormack turns out to be yet another Cowboy. How could a City and a football club get it so wrong?*
*rhetorical question
Big Jimmy – other 2 horses beat but I put on a wee pearl diver of winnings on Bournmouth, Peterborough, Dortmund and Atletico got £80 quid, not gonna retire but it keeps me playing with free cash for a few days.
Good luck.
D. :)
I hope Inter win. Bad memories of 1974 remain.
@David 66..Nice touch ……Without your self posting….And the racin bhoys ..
This thread would be dead today…91 comments……
Keep it coming the cheltenham bhoys……..
H.H
We haven’t always realised just how important it was to Athletico to beat us back in 1974, and it did not matter too much to them how they did it. (I’ve highlighted the connection to the 1966 WC before).
They reminded us late last year, and whatever we think, it was and is a source of pride to them. A back handed compliment if you like, with the emphasis on the back hand.
Amazing to think that their game tonight could go to penalties…
Commentators made an arse of it.
Inter player on ground holding his groin and writhing in agony. TV replay shows AM player grabbing and squeezing his nuts. Referee and linesman saw nothing. It was done very discreetly.
Commentator announces that there is a VAR check. Soon play resumes and commentator says – VAR check complete.
Utter bollox. There was no VAR check. VAR can only intervene if (a) It happens inside the penalty box and they are looking at a potential penalty offence, or (b) The referee shows a yellow card and VAR is checking for a possible upgrade to red.
As the referee took no action, there could be no VAR check.
Evan Carragher joined in with – They must’ve changed the rule since my day cos that was a red.
These clowns get paid big money to know feck all.
SCULLYBHOY
I too want Inter to win as I’ve always had a soft spot for them since 1967.
I like them because they were a big part of that wonderful day and also because they never resorted to dirty tricks and cheating in Lisbon.
Simeone looks like he just climbed out of a wheelie-bin and put on a suit.
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 13TH MARCH 2024 7:23 PM
CELTIC MAC on 13TH MARCH 2024 6:49 PM
I think we might have given Atletico a tighter game in Madrid if daizen hadn’t been sent off . That decision was as bad as anything John Beaton could have come up with .
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I think that referee, a Slovakian, is on duty tomorrow in Govan. He refereed the 2nd leg of our EL tie v Inter a few years back, sending off van Dijk, who described him as the worst referee he’s ever played under…
Inter go out on penalties
Well there you go
Terrible penalties Inter.
18 yard man
Spot on re the ref.
He is a weak one for sure.
My only hope is he favours Benfica due to Scotland’s proximity to Czech in the co eff rankings.
18 yard man
Never underestimate the level of corruption in European football.
Brian Clough’s Derby County were the victims of a fix, against Juve I think..
Cloughie knew the fix was in, thankfully managed to win two European Cups with Forest later
burnley78
That’ll work in Celtic’s favour….
Good thinking Batman
18 YARD MAN on 13TH MARCH 2024 10:40 PM
Am I right in thinking that Celtic made a complaint about that ref after the Inter game ?
If so , it makes you wonder why he was chosen for our game v Atletico . Maybe Hugh dallass could provide the answer to that one .
Gkendaly…
I don’t imagine they can stop a referee taking a match just because a manager slates him. Someone like Fergie would have had a dig at every ref until there was only a couple he liked left.
And if he was playing a Mourinho team there wouldn’t be anyone left to do it.
Glendaly… ☝️
If I put on Twitter, I want to shoot an MP,I would get arrested
Lots of other football tonight.
Aberdeen losing again.
Good point for Ross County. Moves them further away from Livingston.
Hibs “incensed” wearing thin already. “Ineffective” might be more accurate.
Well done Ryan Christie and Bournemouth. That comeback win tonight probably keeps them in the Premier League next season.
Re tomorrow night – anyone know how coefficient points work if a team wins after extra time and penalties?
Do they still get the same 2 points as for an outright win?
If so, Sevco after 120 bruising, energy sapping minutes on a wet pitch works for me.
Couple of hammy tweaks across their back four would be a bonus.
Good night CQN
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 13TH MARCH 2024 10:57 PM
18 YARD MAN on 13TH MARCH 2024 10:40 PM
Am I right in thinking that Celtic made a complaint about that ref after the Inter game ? If so , it makes you wonder why he was chosen for our game v Atletico . Maybe Hugh dallass could provide the answer to that one
*there is also the UEFA Rep at games where we have had one from the black north football association at ours .
Aye
Its jist pure amazing how many glib dims come away with the old hang up.…
“I’ve still got the hump since 1974 aboot Athletico…” 👀️
But the same dim folk have moved straight on by since the PLC mauled our integrity in 2012 and for forever more but dims act like wee dafties who think they’ve stuffed the Huns! 👀️
Yeez helped to cover up the biggest sporting crime by continuing to finance a PLC who will never call the Huns a new club or say that the old Huns died…especially when old Rangers price went onto new Rangers tickets….Shhhh Shhhh the rebels are here lol 👀️ 👎️
The Huns have the Same history, trophy haul, stadium, club name, club colours, fan base, so what have they lost apart from five years in the lower leagues which made Celtic look like the club in the lower leagues with half empty stadiums till the Huns came back up the leagues and filled Parkhead again?
What the Huns have lost is tens of millions£ of debt by faking their death…and getting away with it.
Who let the Huns get away with the grand old deception of dying and then denying it?
The 60,000 season ticket holders were / are the Huns biggest allies…by lazily waiting for somebody else fighting to get 20+ stolen trophies rescinded and playing to and hiding behind the PLC’s stand alone club lie.
Anybody who has watched the board machinations since 1994 knows that a £ching £ching easy life is the boards game.
When it was obvious to me that uprisings from the Celtic fans were buried with the Jungle in 1994, was the year after MON took us to Seville and Didier Agathe got injured and would be out for a long time, and MON tried to get £250,000 from the board to bring in cover for Agathe, MON wanted a right back who had pace and a bit of dig about him, Tony Dorigo from Killie was who MON wanted…also to test the waters as Peter Lawwell had entered the building.
MON was told that the £250,000 for Dorigo would not be made available to MON, so the day after this snub at the press conference, STV tried to trip MON up after being snubbed for Dorigo by the board, to which MON answered that “The European final last year in Seville is now not going to be an option going forward for the club.”
With MON ashen faced announcing that “Celtic’s recruitment processes have now been moved to the [slow lane] and the efforts to get to another European final any time soon would now look extremely unlikely for Celtic fans which will be a great shame after last season in Seville.”
That’s 20 years ago. 👀️
In that 20 years a cobbled together Rangers team have reached 2 European finals since MON left us.
PLC crooks and their carefully planted internet fanbhoys have made Celtic less than just another club, with dreamer fans citing dozens of trophies collected in a one horse league for 12 years as their glib justification for sucking the balance sheet era. 👀️ tik tok….💣️ 💥️
oot.
The disappearance of all Royal families precipitating the handing over of ALL countries to Klaus Schwab and the New World Order?
‘Really Graceful’ hinting at stuff and check the items underneath her video article here. 👀️
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SGLdcadJKBiE/
Wakey Wakey Timmy.
oot.
Good morning all from a dry 9 degree Garngad.
I see Huns are away to Dundee on Saturday, after last night Dundee confidence will be high.
So extra time tonight for that horrible, scum, mother flickering, inbred, zombie lot.
Anyone having a wee punt on the gee gees today Good luck.
D. :)
Enjoyed reminiscing about the 1967 – 74 teams. Some achievements for a team stuck in such a small country with a small domestic league. It really is all about players wanting to play in the big five leagues. But then gain look how we lost King Kenny, the Assassin and Luigi.