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The man to unfurl the League Flag for nine in a row has to be Bobby Lennox. Lisbon Lion, two-time European Cup finalist, there all the way through the original and best nine, and the second highest scorer in Celtic’s history. Who’s with me?
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It's all over! CELTIC ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 1967
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No updates today, we’ll resume again tomorrow.
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Happy 25th May Bhoys and Ghirls
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Team has been named: Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld, Lennox Sub: Fallon
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The season has reached its end and even now, 24 hours later, is passing into Celtic folklore. For those of us lucky to have experienced it, treasure it. We’ll never see it’s like again. God Bless Billy McNeill and his Centenary Bhoys.🍀⚽️💯
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Celtic's new management team, pictured outside Celtic Park today
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IT'S ALL OVER!!!! CELTIC ARE IN THE EUROPEAN CUP FINAL!!!!! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
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Dundee have signed Albert Kidd from Motherwell in a £100,000 deal as they strengthen their squad in a bid to stay in the Premier Division this season. The 19 year old is a big Celtic fan and hopefully he’ll make a mark at Dens Park.
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Celtic players celebrating Billy McNeill's momentous winner
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Monday 23rd April 1979 There’s no news to report today that can’t wait till tomorrow. 🙏
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Love Street 86, Radio Clyde coverage of the day. It takes you right back, in a way watching film of the game can’t, listening to it. Superb stuff.
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Best Celtic team of my lifetime.
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Another shot of McGarvey and McCluskey
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CELTIC ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF SCOTLAND 1966/67!!!
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Tweet Celtic 1967 is taking a short break. We'll return in a few weeks as Tweet Celtic Centenary.
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Jinky pictured with Giacinto Facchetti yesterday. The Inter defender doesn't know what he's in for
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The final whistle blows - CELTIC ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!
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Forever a Celt
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It’s all over! Celtic 3-0 Dundee and Celtic are the Champions in their Centenary Season!
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The goalscorers. Colin Jackson was unavailable
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Celtic are the Champions of Europe!!!!
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GOAL FOR CELTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A few more photos developed super quick at the only chemist open in Glasgow this evening
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Some more pics from last night’s match
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GOAL FOR CELTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Billy holds the European Cup aloft! These are the best days of our lives!
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Celtic 4-2 Rangers and the fans are coming onto the pitch in celebration, exhausted players trying to make their way off the pitch. Unbelievable scenes here as Celtic, who looked dead and buried with half an hour to play blow Rangers away to rip the title from their grasp!
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Photo taken after Celtic's training session at Estadio Nacional this morning. Sneak look at Thursday's team?
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Another shot of Jinky and Dixie
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Another shot of Billy McNeill in Turin last night
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The greatest day in our history. A captain we'll remember forever.
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Another shot of Burns in action
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Danny McGrain raised high by his team-mates after last night’s title-clincher
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The biggest cheer of the night as Jock Stein is carried aloft around Celtic Park by his players
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It's a done deal! Frank McAvennie has signed for Celtic and goes straight into the team v Hibernian tomorrow. Fee is said to be c£750,000
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What a sight!
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Get in!
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Tweet Celtic is taking a short break but we’ll return in late July in time for the build up to a new season. There will be a poll up shortly to help choose which one.
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Newcastle paper, The Chronicle wrote back in May: “Policemen with dogs stood shoulder to shoulder behind the goal, defiantly gazing at the hordes of human animals they had just driven off the St James’ Park pitch. This was the night soccer wept for the name of Glasgow Rangers.”
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Thursday 24th May 1979 Rangers played their penultimate league match of the season, and their last at home last night, in front of just 2,000 fans as they beat Partick Thistle 1-0. The Glasgow Herald didn’t even bother to publish a match report.
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Jock Stein lifts the Coronation Cup
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28th May 1967 Jock Stein is a very happy man right now
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Thursday 22nd October 1981 The funeral of Johnny Doyle takes place today with a requiem mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Kilmarnock. May God grant him eternal rest 🙏
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Another shot of Tommy Burns taking on Marco Tardelli
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20th May 1967 The Celtic party fly out to Lisbon this afternoon. Godspeed them all, especially Jinky who hates flying!
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Billy McNeill and Alfredo di Stefano before the match
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A bittersweet moment for Jock Stein, two of his greatest footballing sons, but one in the wrong colours
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It’s all over!!!!! A Centenary Double for Billy McNeill’s amazing Celtic team. That’s the greatest last minute winner of them all!
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Fantastic shot of Estadio Nacional during the match
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Monday 10th November 1980 Bobby Lennox, the last of the Lisbon Lions, has retired from playing.
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Gemmell passes to Murdoch whose left foot shot is diverted past Sarti by Steve Chalmers!!!!!!!
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On their way to Lisbon!
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I get that this account won't be everyone's cup of tea, but why follow if it's not?
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Great Celtic Days: Love Street 86 is almost done. Should be on YouTube sometime tomorrow.
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Incredible scene as Billy McNeill emerges on what looks like a balcony to receive the new European Cup
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The Bhoys entrusted with bringing the Title back to Celtic Park
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What a goal by Tommy Gemmell!!!! Nearly burst the net with Sarti absolutely helpless.
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Thanks again to all for your kind words today. I'd still do this with no followers but knowing so many of you are enjoying it is brilliant.
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An All-Ireland celebration
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No Scottish midfielder who did not win a European Cup, should ever even be considered before Bobby Murdoch.
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Listening to the pundits on #Sportsound pick their greatest Scotland XI and not one mention of the greatest midfielder Scotland ever produced, Bobby Murdoch.
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Tommy Burns opens the scoring just after half time
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37 year old James Mason, of 33 Haddington Place, Edinburgh, was fined £2 at Edinburgh Burgh Court yesterday for spitting on Charlie Tully at the end of Celtic’s recent visit to Tynecastle.
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The shock news from Park Gardens this evening is that the SFA have suspended referee Jim Callaghan for EIGHT WEEKS after holding an inquiry into his handling of the Celtic-Rangers match on 20th August, following a letter of complaint from Rangers.
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Stein and McNeill share a quiet word in the boardroom
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Habemus Papam! The College of Cardinals in Rome has elected 58 year old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, Archbishop of Krakow, as the new Pope. He has taken the name John Paul II in honour of his predecessor who died last month. Ad Multos Annos!
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Tomorrow’s match is Rangers’ home game, with Ibrox undergoing reconstruction. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the end of WWI, but there are no plans either from Rangers or the Scottish Football League to do anything to mark the occasion.
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Celtic have won the Coronation Cup and are the unofficial Champions of Great Britain! 2️⃣-0️⃣
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Rangers informed us this morning that they could not guarantee our safety at Ibrox today, because we’re “a bit Timmy-looking,” so we’re unable to bring you the usual updates this afternoon. We’ll have a full report some time after 5pm this evening.
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In 13 years as Celtic manager, Jock Stein’s achievements were staggering: One European Cup and another final Ten League Championships Eight Scottish Cups Six League Cups
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Another shot of MacLeod’s equaliser.
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Absolutely outstanding from Celtic, who played the English Champions off the park with some superb football. The 59,000 crowd can’t quite believe what they’ve seen tonight, as welcome as it was unexpected. Celtic aren’t going to win this competition, are they? 1️⃣-0️⃣
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Advance parties of Celtic fans arriving in Lisbon this morning and thousands setting out from all over Scotland today and tomorrow.
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Seasons Greetings to Celtic supporters in this week’s Celtic View from the leader of the opposition, Margaret Thatcher, who seems to be a bit of a fan...
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Next up today is 23 year old Wim Jansen. The short, stocky Jansen is the powerhouse of Feyenoord’s midfield, noted for his ferocious tackling and incongruously, his quiet demeanour that sees him nicknamed “Stille Willem,” or “Silent William.”
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Monday 2nd May 1988 Paul McStay was the overwhelming winner of the Scottish Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year award at their dinner in Glasgow last night
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There’s nothing Graeme Roberts can do about Macca’s header
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Had the beginnings of an idea for a new project - Celtic: The Damned 70’s, charting the mistakes, the misfortunes, and the disasters that brought Celtic from Milan ‘70 to the pits of despair ‘78, with the happy ending of ten men winning the League ‘79. Thoughts? Too depressing?
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Billy McNeill with Celtic's summer signings, from today's Evening Times
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Been an incredible afternoon at Celtic Park, we’ll leave you with the thought that Celtic are the first club in top class football ever to win their national championship in their Centenary Year. We might never see a day like this again. Reaction and Premier League scores later.
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24th May 1967 Today's Celtic View
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Great Celtic Days: Love Street 86 is in production. It’s going to be the longest one so far, but hopefully on YouTube by the weekend.
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No more updates this evening.
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The pitch is cleared at last and the heroes in green and white are back out to take the deserved adulation of the fans. Just in case it’s been forgotten amidst the madness of that game, CELTIC ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!
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11 heroes in green and white today, but a total masterclass from the incomparable Bobby Murdoch. Ran the show and made Inter look ordinary.
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Amazing scenes at Celtic Park tonight as the players parade the European Cup before about 80,000 fans.
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🎶We don’t need your Colin Stein Eusebio or Alan Gilzean We’ve got someone twice as good We’ve got Harry Harry Hood🎶
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Look at the statistics from yesterday's match. We annihilated them!
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Brilliant, brilliant goal by the outstanding Jimmy Johnstone and that might just have won the league for Celtic.
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The Evening Times reveals today that Celtic pay Strathclyde Police costs of £225,000 a year. Interestingly, Rangers, with higher official average attendances, pay only £176,000 per year.
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Frank McAvennie gets the Centenary Year off to a great start
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Absolute bedlam in Estadio Nacional, Lisbon, Celtic are the Champions of Europe!
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James Traynor in the Glasgow Herald seems quite besotted with this David Murray character hoping to buy Ayr United
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It’s definitely all over now as Murdo MacLeod is buried under a pile of bodies celebrating his incredible winner. Andy Lynch is too tired to do much else but smile
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Words cannot do justice to that pass from Paul McStay which will surely be referred to in the future simply as “that pass from Paul McStay.” You’ll just have to watch Sportscene later to appreciate it. Inch perfect. Breathtaking vision and weighting. Perfection!
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A big crowd expected at Celtic Park on Monday evening on what will be the send off before the team heads for Lisbon.
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Goal for Celtic!
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Billy McNeill heads into the net, but for some reason, the referee ruled it out.
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Just magnificent Celtic! It looked all over with 35 minutes to go as Johnny Doyle was ordered off but what happened next is almost supernatural. The ten men looked like they had the extra player as they found reserves of strength and willpower they probably didn’t know they had.
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