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2 hours ago, kennie makevin said:

John McGovern didn't win a single Scottish cap despite being a European Cup winning captain.  And what did McGovern 's Forest do the season after becoming European champions ? They won it again.  What did the Lisbon Lions do the season after becoming European champions ? Got pumped out in the preliminary round. So they were fallible, we're not demi-gods and probably won about the right number of international caps but to a certain breed of paranoid Celtic supporter to suggest such a thing is tantamount to "spouting shite". 

 

Celtic reached the semi finals of cup winners cup in  66, won European cup in 67.
Then , the years after your selected year -quarter,final.,quarter,semi. They weren’t some flash in the pan job that you were attempting to allude to.

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11 hours ago, gannonball said:

Celtic reached the semi finals of cup winners cup in  66, won European cup in 67.
Then , the years after your selected year -quarter,final.,quarter,semi. They weren’t some flash in the pan job that you were attempting to allude to.

Mind you they were  were only 32 teams in the competition so half of them got within a game of the quarter.

 And that was in the days when teams from Finland, Malta and Ireland were in the last 42 and given that it was the champions from the previous season that qualified often the best teams from each country weren't necessarily involved

And they got to the 1970 final on the back of winning a coin toss

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16 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

Mind you they were  were only 32 teams in the competition so half of them got within a game of the quarter.

 And that was in the days when teams from Finland, Malta and Ireland were in the last 42 and given that it was the champions from the previous season that qualified often the best teams from each country weren't necessarily involved

And they got to the 1970 final on the back of winning a coin toss

Champions ! That's the way it should be , there's three tourneys now , so get the also-rans into the Europa League , and get the CL back to champions only. 

 

As for the coin toss , that was just the way of it back then and all the clubs were aware of that and were happy with it. It's not as if Celtic were the only team to benefit from the coin toss in the history of European football !

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2 hours ago, billyg said:

Champions ! That's the way it should be , there's three tourneys now , so get the also-rans into the Europa League , and get the CL back to champions only. 

 

As for the coin toss , that was just the way of it back then and all the clubs were aware of that and were happy with it. It's not as if Celtic were the only team to benefit from the coin toss in the history of European football !

I'm not saying you shouldn't be proud of your teams achievements 50+ years ago

Just that the lily is sometimes being gilded a little bit too much

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14 minutes ago, gannonball said:

Yeah I can’t remember if it was a biography of McNeill or Stein I was reading about years ago and it was the first I seen about it, unreal.

People backing VAR as it aided us twice this international break should want the coin back... our clubs have 100% toss record. Celtic v Benfica (EC R2 1969-70); Rangers v Real Zaragoza (CWC QF 1966-67).

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1 hour ago, billyg said:

Champions ! That's the way it should be , there's three tourneys now , so get the also-rans into the Europa League , and get the CL back to champions only. 

 

As for the coin toss , that was just the way of it back then and all the clubs were aware of that and were happy with it. It's not as if Celtic were the only team to benefit from the coin toss in the history of European football !

the Rangers. A bit suspicious if you ask me !

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16 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Wednesday 10th May 1967
SCOTLAND - USSR  0-2  (0-2)
SCOTLAND:  (Manager:  Robert Brown/2)
Ronald Campbell Simpson		     (Celtic)
Thomas Gemmell			     (Celtic)
Edward Graham McCreadie		     (Chelsea)
John Clark			     (Celtic)
William McNeill			     (Celtic)
James Curran Baxter [c] 	     (Sunderland) -
James Connelly Johnstone	     (Celtic)
Francis McLintock		     (Arsenal)
James McCalliog			     (Sheffield Wednesday)
Denis Law			     (Manchester United)
Robert Lennox			     (Celtic) 

Subs: William Semple Brown Wallace	     (5/Celtic)  for Denis Law (HT)

USSR:  (Coach:  Mikhail Jakushin)
Lev Jashin - Valentin Afonin, Albert Shesternev [c] - Murtaz Khurtsilava, 
Vasilij Danilov, Valerij Voronin - Igor Chislenko, Jozsef Sabo, Fedor Medvid, 
Eduard Streltsov, Eduard Malofeev

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)
Crowd: 53.497, Hampden Park, Glasgow
Goals: 0-1 Gemmell (17) own goal, 0-2 Medvid (41)


Traditional end-of-season friendly at Hampden. USSR were World Cup semi-finalists and Euros runners-up. Scotland had just become "Unofficial World Champions" after the famous win at Wembley the previous month which had also secured Home Nations title (and doubled-up as opening half of Euro 68 qualifying). Celtic was awaiting European Cup Final... Rangers the Cup-Winners' Cup Final... Kilmarnock the Fairs Cup SFs. Representative squad was about to embark on world tour of Israel, Hong Kong, Australia, NZ and Canada.

Tartan Army booed team off at FT.

Hardly surprising considering how poor the defending was and we lost our unofficial world champions title

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15 hours ago, gannonball said:

Celtic reached the semi finals of cup winners cup in  66, won European cup in 67.
Then , the years after your selected year -quarter,final.,quarter,semi. They weren’t some flash in the pan job that you were attempting to allude to.

And they weren't the superhuman, all-conquering footballing gods you were alluding to either......and Nottingham Forest have still won twice as many European Cups as them !!

 

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1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

Has any other Scottish club ever had one of their players score for the Soviet Union?


Oleg Kuznetsov of Rangers? I'd thought like Tommy Gemmell he actually scored for USSR in Glasgow - in a February 1991 friendly at Ibrox - but that was a different Kuznetsov. He did score for USSR v Norway in a September 1990 qualifier in Moscow though.

I'd thought Alexhei Mikhailichenko of Rangers could be another but got his last goals for USSR shortly before joining Rangers.

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17 hours ago, gannonball said:

Celtic reached the semi finals of cup winners cup in  66, won European cup in 67.
Then , the years after your selected year -quarter,final.,quarter,semi. They weren’t some flash in the pan job that you were attempting to allude to.

Athletico Madrid certainly cheated them out of progressing further

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5 hours ago, gannonball said:

Yeah I can’t remember if it was a biography of McNeill or Stein I was reading about years ago and it was the first I seen about it, unreal.

I thought you boys knew your history...

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23 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Wednesday 10th May 1967
SCOTLAND - USSR  0-2  (0-2)
SCOTLAND:  (Manager:  Robert Brown/2)
Ronald Campbell Simpson		     (Celtic)
Thomas Gemmell			     (Celtic)
Edward Graham McCreadie		     (Chelsea)
John Clark			     (Celtic)
William McNeill			     (Celtic)
James Curran Baxter [c] 	     (Sunderland) -
James Connelly Johnstone	     (Celtic)
Francis McLintock		     (Arsenal)
James McCalliog			     (Sheffield Wednesday)
Denis Law			     (Manchester United)
Robert Lennox			     (Celtic) 

Subs: William Semple Brown Wallace	     (5/Celtic)  for Denis Law (HT)

USSR:  (Coach:  Mikhail Jakushin)
Lev Jashin - Valentin Afonin, Albert Shesternev [c] - Murtaz Khurtsilava, 
Vasilij Danilov, Valerij Voronin - Igor Chislenko, Jozsef Sabo, Fedor Medvid, 
Eduard Streltsov, Eduard Malofeev

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)
Crowd: 53.497, Hampden Park, Glasgow
Goals: 0-1 Gemmell (17) own goal, 0-2 Medvid (41)


Traditional end-of-season friendly at Hampden. USSR were World Cup semi-finalists and Euros runners-up. Scotland had just become "Unofficial World Champions" after the famous win at Wembley the previous month which had also secured Home Nations title (and doubled-up as opening half of Euro 68 qualifying). Celtic was awaiting European Cup Final... Rangers the Cup-Winners' Cup Final... Kilmarnock the Fairs Cup SFs. Representative squad was about to embark on world tour of Israel, Hong Kong, Australia, NZ and Canada.

 

Thanks

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