Lisbon lions

[tim_noone]

On bbc1 maybe worth a watch'

[tim_noone]

Correction... It is worth a watch. Lots of archive footage of Glasgow and the poverty etc.plus the football.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Will watch this on Iplayer. Sounds good!

[claretfern]

Was excellent viewing (and I prefer Rangers!) Celtic had a great side then under Jock Stein, without doubt. Been well documented that the players were all born within a close radius of Parkhead, barring Bobby Lennox who hailed from Saltcoats.

[Wile E Coyote]

hardly impressive given the number of cracks they got at qualification by virtue of winning the league every other season.

[Clarets4me]

Excellent watch...really enjoyed it..

Makes you wonder what Jimmy Johnstone would be worth today, especially on modern pitches and the protection from Referees...

[claretfern]

Just finished reading 'Scotland in the Sixties'...a period when the National side was well blessed with talent. Jimmy Johnstone would have won far more caps had he not had a fear of flying.

[tim_noone]

hardly impressive given the number of cracks they got at qualification by virtue of winning the league every other season.

To beat inter Milan in the final was pretty impressive id say,that apart all the lads were from the same area...that will never happen again.and they came across past and present as decent men grounded and proud of their roots despite the poverty.i thought it was a good watch.

[BleedingClaret]

A brilliant watch and I hate Celtic cos of 1978

[nil_desperandum]

hardly impressive given the number of cracks they got at qualification by virtue of winning the league every other season.

Qualifying really wasn't the issue, though Rangers were incredibly strong at the time, but getting through to the final and actually winning it was an amazing feat. All the giants of football were in that competition. Don't forget the previous winners were Real Madrid, Benfica, and the 2 Milan clubs, and all the top Europeans teams were in it. (Only the Champions of each country in those days, don't forget, so the cream of European football).

Leaving that aside, it was a great programme full of social history, and a reminder of how grim things were in some sections of the UK and society in the mid-sixties.
I was also reminded of how strong Scottish football was at that time. (1967)
Scotland beat World Cup Winners England
Celtic Won the European Cup, Rangers got to the final of the European Cup Winners Cup - to be beaten by Bayern Munich, and even Kilmarnock got to the Semi Final of the Inter-City Fairs Cup (later the UEFA Cup), where they lost 4-2 over 2 legs to Leeds Utd.

[Dazzler]

hardly impressive given the number of cracks they got at qualification by virtue of winning the league every other season.

Celtic had not won the title for 11 seasons prior to 1965/66.

It was the first time they had competed in the European cup.

[Clarets4me]

In the modern age, it's somewhat incredible to learn that between 1897 - 1983, a period spanning 86 years, Celtic had only 5 Managers !!
In the 34 years since, they've had 13 more...

Including caretaker Managers, Leeds Utd have had 28 Managers since 1983, and that includes Howard Wilkinson who served for one month shy of 8 years..

[tim_noone]

5 managers in 86 years amazing.hopefully we have that type of manager at burnley.hes done 5 already !

[Pstotto]

Watching the documentary, one almost gets the feeling they're all nice folk....until one remembers 1978.

[nil_desperandum]

Watching the documentary, one almost gets the feeling they're all nice folk....until one remembers 1978.

There were a lot of moronic / drunken sets of fans in the 70s. It's why we ended up with perimeter fencing. It wasn't down to one set of fans.

[Silkyskills1]

There were a lot of moronic / drunken sets of fans in the 70s. It's why we ended up with perimeter fencing. It wasn't down to one set of fans.

It was that night.

[ClaretTony]

There were a lot of moronic / drunken sets of fans in the 70s. It's why we ended up with perimeter fencing. It wasn't down to one set of fans.

The amount of fencing was increased at Burnley after that game in 1978 and security was also increased significantly.

Interesting programme to watch and Celtic were brilliant that night.

[Wile E Coyote]

celtic,rangers,celtic,rangers,celtic, rangers....ad infinitum, surely the most inane and dullest place to be a football fan.
Not suggesting the city didnt occasionally produce some wonderful footballers, it clearly did, but the boast that they were the first British team to win a European cup is very hollow. For all the imperfections with the english first division as it was back then, at least it can be classed as reasonably competitive by comparison. i.e more than two teams have won the league in the last 150 years.

[tim_noone]

Watching the documentary, one almost gets the feeling they're all nice folk....until one remembers 1978.

Burnley fans had their moments.i recall Celtic scarves being burned on the longside thrown against the no mans land anyone in green and white fair game .that in my opinion lit the fuse.and I'll stick by it.

[Wile E Coyote]

all towns/cities have an element of idiots, celtic however brought to Burnley an embarrassing, loutish , drunken violent mob that day.
They were a sprawling, uncouth,foul mouthed bigoted crowd all day in the town. Vomiting there drunken way from street to street until the match began. Mainly young lads trying to emulate the bull**** stories of their dads and uncles generation.

[nil_desperandum]

celtic,rangers,celtic,rangers,celtic, rangers....ad infinitum, surely the most inane and dullest place to be a football fan.
Not suggesting the city didnt occasionally produce some wonderful footballers, it clearly did, but the boast that they were the first British team to win a European cup is very hollow. For all the imperfections with the english first division as it was back then, at least it can be classed as reasonably competitive by comparison. i.e more than two teams have won the league in the last 150 years.

You need to do a bit more research about Scottish football.
Between 1919 and winning the league in 1966, Celtic only won the Scottish League 5 times. Rangers, HIbs, and Hearts were far more dominant, and the likes of Motherwell, Dundee,, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock all won it.
It was not the 2 horse race that it was to become from the 70s.
You only need to look at what happned to English football from the late-60s to understand why. Abolition of maximum wage, TV and big city clubs starting to dominate. There are only really 2 big cities in Scotland.
More recently the lack of TV money in Scotland has made things much worse.
(I'm not Scottish by the way).

[Wile E Coyote]

i stand corrected nil.