'What this Celtic team produced on Thursday evening was an insult to the Lions’ legacy' || Graeme McGarry
"Roll up, roll up, come and get your official Lisbon Lions commemorative shirts, tea-towels and trinkets. If nothing else, it may help you remember a time when Celtic actually gave much of a damn about European football.
"One wonders if decades from now, the 'made a better fist of it after the break' range will have quite the same cachet.
"Being drawn against Benfica in the Europa League was manna from heaven for the club’s commercial department. Thousands of Celtic fans would be making the pilgrimage to Lisbon and the Estadio Nacional, the sight of the club’s greatest triumph back in 1967. It was a chance to get a head start on punting some of the new range of tat before next year’s 60th anniversary and throw yet more of their supporters’ money on the big pile.
"From a footballing perspective, though, this was the stuff of nightmares. Inevitably, when things went predictably pear-shaped on the field of play, the comparisons between the legends of the past and the lame ducks of the present was a stark one, and the stuff of headline writers' dreams.
"‘From Lions to Lambs’ screamed the back pages, as Martin O’Neill’s men were dismantled in the Estadio da Luz by the Super Eagles, who far from getting their wings clipped, felt – as one Portuguese paper put it – only the slightest of tickles beneath them from their once storied opponents.
"This is what Celtic, and by extension, Scottish football, have become. Our champions - mere cannon fodder for the big boys of the continent. Teams like Benfica, who have now put 10 goals past last season’s Scottish Premiership top two in two matches on their home patch, look at Celtic the way that we would once look at the minnows of Luxembourg or Gibraltar. A guaranteed win, with the chance of a good few goals into the bargain." 👇
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@PaulJohnDykes@colnrodgers The defence would give you the fear!! tounekti I have no words!! And the midfield too lightweight as we’ve already seen but other than that delighted 🤷♂️🤦🏼🤣 we need to score at least 4 to win today
@ML3democrats There will be a case study in years to come on how this guy hoodwinked the biggest nation of them all into believing his shite not once but twice!!! Quite incredible really
@nicksortor So let me get this right a war the should never have started!! And it’s the country who was invaded it’s their president who is to be ousted because a guy that picked a fight with Iran and failed to win says so?? Just checking 👀🤷♂️
@GenFlynn@realDonaldTrump Can’t beat Iran so we’ll forget they existed and we’ll flip back to Ukraine the country that was invaded and somehow it’s the president of Ukraine’s fault 🤣🤣🤣 you lot are seriously delusional
@TruthTrumpPost Trump is not wrong?? Last time I checked Russia invaded Ukraine but Zelenskyy is the one to make a deal??? The thinking with some people is warped 🤷♂️🤦🏼
@siamesebhoy Drivel??? Have you any clue about Celtic?? No you don’t have you any clue about ownership no you don’t!! Just keep kidding on your an ex manager who burned his bridges carry on!!