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Celtic 2022-2023. Hail Hail.

I hadn't heard this story about Lisbon before.... (pinched off twitter)

The Estadio Nacional in Lisbon ....
When Celtic played Inter Milan in the 1967 European Cup Final, they lined up in the tunnel, Bertie Auld recollected, " We looked across at Inter, beautiful silky shirts, all of the players tall, deeply tanned, jet black hair with film star smiles ... we were deathly pale after a Scottish season, with scabs and bruises visable, a motley collection of the tall and gangly, stocky, and a ginger " short arse " genius called Jimmy Johnstone !!
Inter took an early lead through a Mazzola penalty, but Celtic scored two second half goals to win 2-1. Auld takes up the story, " At the final whistle, it was noticed by the Press that several of us ran towards Ronnie Simpson, in the Celtic goal and gathered around him. Apart from the penalty, he'd had little to do, so a Reporter asked why we'd run over to Ronnie. " Auld looked at the Pressman, " Do you remember that picture of Nobby Stiles dancing round Wembley with the World Cup ? " , the Reporters nodded, " Well, our wives told us in no uncertain terms that if we won, they didn't want to see us in the papers wi' nae teeth in ! ". Ronnie Simpson had spent the whole of the second half with a cloth bag in the back of the goal containing five sets of dentures !!
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