@murraystep26506@finbarfin Absolutely, it was like the Derek Johnstone handball in 1977 SC Cup Final, the number of folk who refused to see that DJ handled was unbelievable 😂😂
When Paul Lambert left Motherwell for Borussia Dortmund in 1996, he did not even know if he had a club to go to.
He had no contract.
He had no agent.
And by the time he arrived in Germany, he had almost no money left either.
So Lambert told Dortmund’s general manager exactly where he stood.
“Motherwell don’t know I’m here.”
“They don’t have a clue where I am.”
“The other thing is I’ve run out of money as well.”
Dortmund gave him 200 Marks and a trial.
Within a few weeks, he was in their team.
Within a year, he was playing in a Champions League final against Juventus, marking Zinedine Zidane, and helping Dortmund become champions of Europe.
By then, everything had changed.
Juventus wanted him.
Franz Beckenbauer asked if he would be interested in Bayern Munich.
But Lambert wanted to stay at Dortmund.
“I had everything at Dortmund.”
Then his son became ill again.
Lambert and his wife had first seen it when he was a baby in Glasgow.
He had a temperature, they brought him into bed, and then his arm went limp.
Lambert picked him up.
Then his head flopped.
“I was shaking him, but there was nothing there.”
He recovered, but the doctors told them it could happen again for years.
And after the Champions League final in 1997, it did.
That was when Lambert and his wife knew they had to go back to Scotland.
Not because he wanted to leave Dortmund.
But because they needed to be near family.
Dortmund did not want him to go.
Before a Champions League game against Parma, the supporters made that clear.
Banners went up around the ground.
“Paul, don’t go.”
“Thank you, Paul.”
Then they started singing his name.
“Paul Lambert, You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
After the game, the club asked him to do a lap of honour.
Lambert got as far as the Yellow Wall, saw people crying, and had to go back down the tunnel.
Dortmund asked him one last time.
“Paul, we’re going to ask you again.”
“Don’t go.”
But his mind was made up.
He went home and signed for Celtic.
And within months, Lambert had gone from winning the Champions League with Dortmund to helping Celtic stop Rangers winning ten in a row.
“My football career is mad, isn’t it?”
“It is real fairytale stuff.”
#football #celtic
@CQN I think Andrew Dallas and AVAR Sean Carr should be commended for holding Beaton to task and giving correct call. Beaton was going to give a throw in to ‘Well and run down clock.
25th May 1967, the greatest day in Celtic's history!🍀
Celtic beat Inter Milan 2:1 in Lisbon to win the European Cup!
Gemmell and Chalmers with the goals.
@JimDelahunt Mibees the KMI Panel is a waste of time. What is the point in it, there’s no doubt Sam Nicholson handled the ball. VAR worked here and also with the Daizen “offsides” v, Hibs & Hearts.