The C in Cup is capitalised. Are you really getting into a semantics argument with me Nev? I can only see one winner in that one.
So, basically teams that weren't good enough to win their respective leagues and had to qualify for a diddy competition by winning a diddy cup. When you won your diddy trophy back in '72 who were the lords and masters of Scottish football Nev?
Oh the Rangers are ****e.......... Oh the Rangers are ****e.......... Oh the Rangers are ****e.......... ****e, ****e, ****e, ****e, Oh the Rangers are ****e..........
Irrespective of the supposed merits or strengths of the teams we beat on the way, we did actually destroy Inter Milan in the final, only an idiot would argue that Inter were not a class side. They had already won the EC twice by that time and were HEAVY HEAVY favourites to beat us. We also beat Dukla Prague en route to the final who by all accounts an outstanding side too.
I'll rephrase it, Dukla were an outstanding side, indeed many of (if not all) the Lions said that they were a harder team to beat than Inter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukla_Prague
It's all relative. People forget that back then countries like Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the likes produced good teams and good players. Even countries like Hungary and Ukraine produced teams of a high quality. You cannot judge those teams by today's standard any more than you can judge the current Celtic and Rangers teams with the Lisbon Lions and the team of '72.
Czechoslovakia (including several of the Dukla side which faced Celtic) reached the final of the 1962 World Cup, where they lost 3-1 to Brazil, they must have been ****e
This is one of my favourite subjects - the relativity of football teams throughout the years. Imagine telling someone in the sixties you got beat in a final by Zenit St Petersburg Zenit St Whitwhit? Celtic beat the champions of Switzerland, France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Italy to win the big one. To meet us in the final, Inter beat Real Madrid. Dukla put Ajax out (who had thumped Liverpool 5-0). Zenit St Whitwhit?
It's a valid point Bib and ST make about success being relative, when Souness was at Sampdoria they were a European force and where are they now? Because they are **** now it could hardly be argued that they were always so.
