Rangers v Celtic

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Crypto Capone said:
THE EUROPEAN TRIUMPH. The cruellest comparison of all: the first non-Latin, northern European club to win the world's greatest club prize, and doing so in a way that smashed the cynical style of football that had gripped the continent. The Lions opened the door to Ajax, Michels, and Total Football. And they were all - irony of ironies - Scotsmen playing for the "Irish" club in Glasgow. It's an achievement that echoes down through the ages, brings joy to the hearts of football fans everywhere, and laughs heartily in the face of everything the Huns represented in 1967.

In the Blue Corner: a "triumph" in the long-discarded 3rd tournament of European Football, one they qualified for thanks to losing a cup final to Celtic. One they only won thanks to 2 pitch invasions and one full-scale riot. A bauble chucked at them in the toilets of the stadium, from which they were banned from defending. Let's hear it for the "Barcelona Bears"....
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You're speaking English and Ulster is British

Up yours, negro
 
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Crypto Capone said:
I am convinced the Huns have essentially tried to invent a history (of the old club) because everything they have done - everything - pales in comparison to the Celtic story.

1. THE MYTH OF BILL STRUTH. A few years back the Huns realised that every great club has a foundational genius manager. They didn't, so they exhumed Bill Struth, a hitherto unremarkable PE teacher who was their boss in their sectarian pomp, and then tried to pretend he belonged in the pantheon of greats. But compared to Jock Stein he is a pygmy. Stein is widely regarded as perhaps the greatest coach in British history, and is part of the Holy Trinity of Scotsmen (alongside Shankly and Busby) who changed the way football was played in this country and on this continent.

Other Scottish managers also overshadow Struth: Alex Ferguson obviously, but also Jim McLean and perhaps even Tommy Docherty. And then you get to the great English managers - Clough, Revie, Chapman, Nicholson, Paisley... Indeed, if you were to do a top 10 of Great British Managers, Struth (manager of the supposedly quintessentially British club) would be nowhere near the list.

The only interesting things about Struth are his obvious small-town Scottish Presbyterian bigotry, and the fact he may have murdered someone.
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Ah the great Jock Stein. All he did for Celtic, Scottish football and football in general yet still not good enough for a seat on the Celtic board due to parochial small town Catholic bigotry.

Shame really.

Not the biggest shame of that time but a shame none the less.
 
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