“What a result. What a performance. I hope this will change the trend that has made football defensive and dull. This was a victory for attractive, attacking football and that is the most important thing to remember.”"Massive attacking" . . . "a victory for sport"
Jock Stein
Dare it be said, The Scotsman's account of that 25th May 1967 deserves to be read. What a pity there is no by-line attached to the story.
"In old Lisbon tonight Celtic annihilated Inter-Milan by a single goal. They were hailed uproariously as new champions of Europe and not since Real Madrid in 1960 has there been more decisive and satisfying winners of the European Champions Cup. They were great as they became the first club ever to win their National Championship, their National Cup and the European Cup."
"All who sat in this great national stadium in the burning sunshine were happy that once more attacking football had won. Those of us who were Scots and indeed British were wildly emotional and we ranged from those who had hitch-hiked across the 1,700 miles of Europe to those of us who thought we were blase and had seen it all.We do not like to see a football field invaded, but when these Celtic supporters broke at the end and knelt and kissed the turf, and some “howked” out souvenir clods, we could understand."
How The Scotsman reported Celtic's triumph
