Immortal

Lisbon, 25th May 1967. The European Cup Final.  Attack versus defence.  Inspiration versus organisation. Celtic versus Inter Milan.  

What a game it was.  Jock Stein's team all born within 30 miles of Glasgow taking on and beating the stars of the Italian league who had won the Cup in two of the previous three years.  I can remember watching it on tv and virtually praying for Celtic to score after Inter had taken the lead early on with a Sandro Mazzola penalty.

I think it was the fact that Celtic were so committed to attack whereas Inter were content to defend in (extraordinary) numbers and intensity after scoring.  Tommy Gemmell equalised and Steve Chalmers scored the winner in the second half...Justice (this time) was undoubtedly done.

Bill Shankly told Jock Stein after the match that he was "immortal now".  He always will be.