0:00:03 > 0:00:06- This way, please. - Gangway. Gangway there.
0:00:14 > 0:00:19The bus begins its trip from the airport to Celtic Park.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22There's the bus, there are the players.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Everyone is very happy indeed.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28In 1967, Glasgow Celtic became the first British team
0:00:28 > 0:00:30to win the European Cup.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32- COMMENTATOR:- Gemmell.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Murdoch.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35It's there!
0:00:35 > 0:00:36Celtic have scored!
0:00:37 > 0:00:41All you were doing was... Excitement, just jumping about.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43"Oh, ya dancer," you know?
0:00:43 > 0:00:47- COMMENTATOR:- And onto the field come thousands of Celtic fans.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50This is a great moment.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53I don't think I'd ever seen my dad with tears in his eyes before,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55but he literally had tears in his eyes.
0:00:55 > 0:00:56He gave me a big, massive hug,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59which I don't ever remember him doing before.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02When I watch it all, I just sit and bubble all the way through it.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06And yet it is my happiest football memory.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Thousands lined the streets of Glasgow to welcome the team home.
0:01:14 > 0:01:1650 years on...
0:01:16 > 0:01:17How are yous?
0:01:17 > 0:01:20..fans still greet them as returning heroes.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24I love singing with them. I love applauding with them.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27And I love what they love - that team.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30It just changed our lives forever.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32I mean, this is 50 years on.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34We're still talking about it.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38Most people remember Bobby because he was a great player,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41but a lot of people know that he was a good man.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46As boys, these players beat impoverishment,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49illness and intolerance
0:01:49 > 0:01:51before they'd even pulled on their boots.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59They learned to believe in themselves.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I was the shyest guy in the world.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03I was embarrassed going in and joining in
0:02:03 > 0:02:06with the guys playing football, so I just left. Didnae play.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10They saw a big man held back by small minds.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12He was very, very upset.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14And there were tears.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19And the scorer who secured glory for Glasgow
0:02:19 > 0:02:22was the man who survived its deadliest disease.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26"We're very sorry. This is the diagnosis.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28"You've got three weeks to live."
0:02:30 > 0:02:34On that sunlit May evening 50 years ago,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37the 11 men brought back not just a trophy
0:02:37 > 0:02:40but history, hope and happiness
0:02:40 > 0:02:42to the proud people of Glasgow.
0:02:53 > 0:02:551967...
0:02:59 > 0:03:03..the moment when the footballing world revolved around Glasgow.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07A Scotland team packed with Glaswegians
0:03:07 > 0:03:10beat World Champions England at Wembley.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15Glasgow Rangers went all the way to the European Cup Winners' Cup final,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18only to lose in extra time.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21And, most fantastically of all,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Glasgow Celtic won the greatest prize in European football
0:03:24 > 0:03:28with a team who were all born within 30 miles of the stadium.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34But, in many ways, Glasgow was an unlikely setting for a fairy tale.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43So you've come to Glasgow, have you?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46Pretty grim, isn't it?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52This was a city with a reputation for hard men
0:03:52 > 0:03:55and poverty-blighted lives,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59for gangs, for drunkenness, for sectarianism.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Glasgow was a hard place. Don't kid yourself on. But a nice place.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07You only got a doing if you deserved it.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12'Glasgow people love one another violently, and when they fight...'
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Glasgow is regarded as one of the most densely populated urban areas
0:04:20 > 0:04:23in the whole of Western and Central Europe at that time.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26It's an emphatically working-class city.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31The overwhelming majority of the population tended to,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34if you like, make their living with their hands.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Glasgow was the engine of the Empire.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Ships were launched from the Clyde,
0:04:43 > 0:04:46built from steel forged in its furnaces...
0:04:47 > 0:04:51..and powered by coal hewn from the Lanarkshire mines.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56And from this male, socialist culture came leaders.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The next step when you left school was to go into the pits.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03It was as simple and straightforward as that.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05I was 13 years in the pits then after that.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08The story of the Lisbon Lions begins
0:05:08 > 0:05:09when a miner called Jock Stein
0:05:09 > 0:05:12swapped his pit boots for football boots.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Stein captained Celtic.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Then, in 1957, after being injured,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21was put in charge of the club's promising young reserve team.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25All I tried to do is to try and work for the players.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Because, after all, the players work for me when they're on the field.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30I do my best for them off the field.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I expect the same from them on the field.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36One of these young players was future captain Billy McNeill.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40The son of a Black Watch soldier,
0:05:40 > 0:05:42he lived just a short bus journey from Celtic Park.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45On his way to training,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48he was joined by another hopeful youth, John Clark,
0:05:48 > 0:05:52who was determined to succeed after a devastating setback
0:05:52 > 0:05:53in his early life.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57I was ten, the oldest of the family.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I was outside the house, kicking a ball,
0:06:00 > 0:06:01and then the police came
0:06:01 > 0:06:04and asked, "Where does Clark stay?"
0:06:04 > 0:06:07I says, "Right, that's it in there", you know?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09So I can always remember it.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11The two policemen came, but they wouldnae let me in.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13They said, "You stay outside."
0:06:13 > 0:06:16The next thing, I heard my mother crying, so...
0:06:16 > 0:06:18My father had been killed in a train accident.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20He was in the railway, he was a foreman.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23And my mother was still expecting a child.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25So it was pretty hard at the time
0:06:25 > 0:06:27and it was rough.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Stein took these young players under his wing,
0:06:31 > 0:06:35and when Celtic bought Jock a wee car,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38he would give Billy and John a lift home from training,
0:06:38 > 0:06:40teaching them about football, life,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43and occasionally even stopping off for fish and chips.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I think big Billy had the bigger legs, so he'd probably be
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- in the front, so we'd have to take the back seat.- Aye, that's right.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Jim Conway, a centre forward, also travelled in the car
0:06:53 > 0:06:55with McNeill, Clark and Stein.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57# Gonna build a mountain... #
0:06:57 > 0:06:59There was players there, young players that were there,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- that were as good a player as anywhere that was going.- Yes.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03- The talent was always there.- Yeah.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05# ..build a mountain
0:07:05 > 0:07:08# Least I hope I will... #
0:07:09 > 0:07:12At that particular time, it turned out good for Celtic,
0:07:12 > 0:07:14because we had to start a new reserve team
0:07:14 > 0:07:15to build towards the future.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19# Gonna build a mountain... #
0:07:19 > 0:07:21We started to get things pieced together.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23I was doing not bad then.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25I was the first boy he ever signed.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29He was a father figure. You know, he cared.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- He was a miner at one time.- Yes. - Salt of the earth, as they call it.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34That's right, yeah.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36He knew down below how hard it is.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39He kept you level. He never let you get...
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- Too big for your boots. - That's right.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Kept your feet on the ground.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46# Gonna build a daydream
0:07:46 > 0:07:49# Gonna see it through... #
0:07:50 > 0:07:55Talented and ambitious, Stein and his young colts were going places.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59But a meeting with the Celtic chairman
0:07:59 > 0:08:01shattered Big Jock's dreams.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04The chairman had told him he couldn't go any further
0:08:04 > 0:08:06at the club because of his religion.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07I says, "You're joking, Jock."
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Couldn't believe it, myself, you know?
0:08:09 > 0:08:14He says... He really was upset. And there were tears.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18He was very, very upset, because he loved the club.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I was a non-Catholic,
0:08:22 > 0:08:26so Robert Kelly thought that I had gone as far as I would expect to go
0:08:26 > 0:08:28with a club like Celtic.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34It took five long trophyless years before Celtic righted the wrong.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42In 1965, the club invited Jock to return as manager.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Stein had proven himself with success at Dunfermline and Hibs,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48and now, reunited with the players at Celtic,
0:08:48 > 0:08:49he impressed them with his knowledge,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52ambition and sheer presence.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54You've got to play the game in space.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Billy and John Clark tighten up here at the back.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59John and I will have to make up our mind early
0:08:59 > 0:09:01which one of us is going to pick up the main striker.
0:09:01 > 0:09:07Jock Stein encapsulated the values that we think we have as Scots -
0:09:07 > 0:09:10no nonsense, quiet wisdom.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13He was clever and he commanded respect.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16I think a lot of Glaswegians looked at him and said,
0:09:16 > 0:09:18"Yeah, that's the way to be."
0:09:19 > 0:09:21You know, normally our midfield men...
0:09:21 > 0:09:25The dressing room was full of talented but underachieving players,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28amongst them, the mercurial winger, Jimmy Johnstone,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31talented youngster Tommy Gemmell...
0:09:32 > 0:09:35..and, at the heart of the team, Bertie Auld.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37That's a very good move, that, boss.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40You know, with me holding the ball in the middle of the park there,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43big Yogi hesitating just that few seconds...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Like most of his team-mates,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50young Bertie learned his moves on the streets of Glasgow.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58This is Panmure Street.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00University, adversity.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04See, as I'm standing here, honestly, I feel my legs jelly.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06There must be ghosts in every part of this place,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08because see the people that...
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Honestly, they were warm, they were fabulous neighbours.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14My mum was out selling fruit and suchlike
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and they would see me playing in the street, maybe five o'clock.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19All the neighbours said, "Bert, is your ma not in yet?"
0:10:19 > 0:10:22They would roll up just a bit of bread and butter.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25It wouldn't be butter, it'd be margarine or something like Stork.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26She'd throw it out,
0:10:26 > 0:10:30just to make sure you weren't going without anything to eat.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Mrs...Mrs Muckalee had that... See that light there?
0:10:34 > 0:10:38I'm sure she had 15 kids. Loved football.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41But she was let down at the finish-up...
0:10:42 > 0:10:45..because she had nae inside left.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46LAUGHTER
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Panmure Street even had its own football team,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54and would take on anyone.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57# We are some of the Panmure boys
0:10:57 > 0:11:01# We are some of the boys
0:11:01 > 0:11:04# We know wur manners and how to spend wur tanners
0:11:04 > 0:11:07# We are expected wherever we go
0:11:07 > 0:11:11# Doors and windows opened wide Opened wide
0:11:11 > 0:11:13# Here we go! #
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Everybody speaks about football.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23I'll tell you this about football.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26You know how important it is to breathe in through your nose
0:11:26 > 0:11:28and out through your mouth?
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Well, that was football.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36If you take the tenements of Glasgow, you know, the inner areas,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38the streets were the playground.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40I mean, the houses were too small to do very much in,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43so people tended to be outside most of the time.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47This is the nursery where you learn to dribble as soon as you can walk.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Where you shoot before you can run.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54This is the prelude to Hampden or Wembley.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07That photo there, he looks about five or six in it.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11He just kicked a ball all the time, even before he started school.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14There was a friend, Thomas McLaughlin, that stayed upstairs.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Jimmy had a ladder from the back window.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19The two of them used to go before they went to school in the morning,
0:12:19 > 0:12:20have a kickabout.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Legendary winger Jimmy Johnstone first jinked his way
0:12:23 > 0:12:26past milk bottles on the outskirts of the city.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30When he was younger, he used to put his father's pit boots on,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34kick a ball. I think some of the neighbours used to go mad.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36The poor neighbour down below,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I think her light was shaking like anything.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42When he became a ball boy at Celtic Park,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45wee Jimmy seemed destined to play for the club.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49But one of his future team-mates grew up closer to the home
0:12:49 > 0:12:51of Celtic's fiercest rival.
0:12:52 > 0:12:58Now, this is us approaching Govan, just along the road from Ibrox Park.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01But, as a pupil at Saint Anthony's,
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Jim Craig was unlikely to be welcomed at 1950s-Ibrox.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08There's the school just here.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Well, this is my former primary school.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19We were only half a mile from Ibrox Park,
0:13:19 > 0:13:21round the corner from Harmony Row,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23where Alex Ferguson went to school,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25but if you were a Catholic, you went to that school,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28if you were a Protestant, you went to that school.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31I was too young to think there was anything wrong about that, you know?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35This is the playground. This is where we used to hone our skills.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39I think every boy in those days thought he was going to be
0:13:39 > 0:13:42a footballer, cos all we did was play football in the playground.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45This is where I was born.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49This is the boys's bedroom. It was in here.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50It was just a single room.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53There were four boys, and that's where the four boys slept.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Into the right here was the kitchen.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59My ma, she was the worst cook in the world.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02But I'll tell you, she gave you plenty of it. You were never hungry.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Young Bertie was happy to play for his street,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07but dreamed of a bigger stage.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12So when Celtic spotted him at 16 and offered him £20 to sign,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Bertie couldn't wait to tell his mum.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19I had this £20 note in my hand like that. I never let it loose.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22It was one of they ones that was about that size.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23It was like the inside of a juice paper.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I folded it all and put it in my pocket. That's the way I held it.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30And I came up here. My mam, she turned, "Hello, son", she says.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33"Hi, Ma. I've got a wee surprise."
0:14:33 > 0:14:35And she done that. Honestly, she started
0:14:35 > 0:14:39to take my fingers out like that, cos they were that tight.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44She got this £20 note. She looked at it like that. This is what she did.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46She just put it right down her bra.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50£20, the 23 tram
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and a gallous swagger was enough to get Bertie to Celtic Park.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59But one boy had a much longer journey to make.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04For Bobby Lennox, it wasn't just the 27-mile journey
0:15:04 > 0:15:07from the seaside town of Saltcoats to the big city of Glasgow,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10the forward had something holding him back.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13I was the shyest guy in the world.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I would go in and sit down and not talk to anybody.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I didn't start playing until I was 12 because I was embarrassed
0:15:18 > 0:15:21going and joining in with the guys playing football.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23So I just left, didnae play.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25I was really a shy boy.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27It was difficult, I just...
0:15:27 > 0:15:28I just felt...
0:15:29 > 0:15:32"Am I good enough to be here? Should I be here with these guys?"
0:15:32 > 0:15:34You know? It was difficult.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37At 17, Bobby took a conveyor belt job
0:15:37 > 0:15:41making boxes with the area's big employer, ICI.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Loads and loads of buses sat outside the ICI.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48People came piling in and piling in. Nearly everybody worked in the ICI.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51It was a dynamite factory. They made explosives and stuff like that.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55'The gelignites, the dynamites, the TNT ammonium nitrates,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57'and still the list is only half complete.'
0:15:59 > 0:16:01From time to time, somebody would get killed
0:16:01 > 0:16:03or somebody would be hurt, you know.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I worked on this big machine. It just kept filling up.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07I had to knock out boxes for it. It kept filling up.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10When everybody else was finished, I'd always have a load
0:16:10 > 0:16:13still to be done, you know, I really hated it. Hated it.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17While playing for the factory football team,
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Bobby's talents were spotted by Celtic,
0:16:19 > 0:16:22and the shy boy realised this was his chance
0:16:22 > 0:16:24to escape the production line.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Up on the train, smoke belching out the engine.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30In through the Gorbals at that time on the train.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33The Gorbals at the time wasn't the prettiest place in the world.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39One member of Stein's team lived within sight of Celtic Park.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Raised in a Glasgow tenement, his name would go down in club history,
0:16:43 > 0:16:47but in his youth, he was almost a victim of the city's biggest killer.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52'Health experts say the cause of Glasgow's high TB rate was
0:16:52 > 0:16:55'malnutrition during the Depression of the '30s,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58'combined with lack of ventilation in the blackout.'
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Glasgow was a city designed for tuberculosis,
0:17:02 > 0:17:08because there was so much poverty, overcrowding, lack of sunlight.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Just the ideal breeding ground.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Stevie Chalmers was a promising young striker.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20In 1955, he felt ill and was rushed to hospital.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25He just thought he was unwell and had a cold, I think.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27He didn't actually realise how serious it was.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30It wasn't until people in beds next to him were getting curtains
0:17:30 > 0:17:33pulled round and dying and he was lying there thinking,
0:17:33 > 0:17:34"I just want to go out and play football."
0:17:34 > 0:17:36He was moving his legs out the side of the bed
0:17:36 > 0:17:38and thinking, "Why am I here?"
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Glasgow was winning its battle with TB,
0:17:40 > 0:17:44but there were still strains of the disease which were fatal.
0:17:46 > 0:17:52Tuberculous meningitis was the deadliest disease in Glasgow ever.
0:17:52 > 0:17:57100% fatality at that time. It was a terrible disease.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Doctors had to break the devastating news to young Stevie
0:18:01 > 0:18:03that he had contracted TB meningitis.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08"We're very sorry, this is the diagnosis.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10"You've got three weeks to live."
0:18:12 > 0:18:16With time running out, Stevie needed a miracle.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22He came under the care of Dr Peter McKenzie,
0:18:22 > 0:18:23a remarkable man.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26He was a great Rangers supporter.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29He always talked about Stevie Chalmers
0:18:29 > 0:18:32as...a tremendous gentleman.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34He really liked him.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39No patient at the hospital had ever survived TB meningitis.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Dr McKenzie decided to try an experimental new drug treatment.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49It was a miracle cure. It was not believed
0:18:49 > 0:18:52that people could survive tuberculous meningitis.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56And Stevie Chalmers was one of the very first in Scotland.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Stevie never forgot Dr McKenzie.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04And after joining Celtic, he wrote to the Rangers-supporting doctor,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08signing off with, "My success is your success."
0:19:10 > 0:19:13I suppose getting TB and realising that, actually,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16he was near death was actually probably the thing
0:19:16 > 0:19:19that really spurred him on to be the footballer he was.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Actually, the passion that he has probably shows in that.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28With Jock Stein in charge, survivor Stevie Chalmers,
0:19:28 > 0:19:32shy Bobby Lennox, gallous Bertie Auld,
0:19:32 > 0:19:37captain Billy McNeill, jinking Jimmy Johnstone
0:19:37 > 0:19:39began to play together... like a team.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47They won a league and cup double in their first full season,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49which meant they qualified for the European Cup
0:19:49 > 0:19:52for the first time in the club's history.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Stein took his victorious young squad
0:19:57 > 0:19:59for a six-week summer tour of America.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05We started away in Bermuda, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles,
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Miami, San Francisco, New York.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Jock, he knew what ability we had.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15He was wanting people to build their own confidence.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17And on that tour,
0:20:17 > 0:20:21the boys from working-class Glasgow began to believe in themselves.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Being in America was the start of it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Everybody got to know each other so well
0:20:25 > 0:20:26and was in each other's pockets.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Especially Wee Jimmy and I, we were in everybody else's pockets.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Jinky and Bobby Lennox, they loved to have a wee song, you know...
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Pretty Flamingo, that was one of the songs that was out then.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37# On all our block
0:20:37 > 0:20:40# All of the guys
0:20:40 > 0:20:43# Call her Flamingo
0:20:43 > 0:20:47# Cos her hair glows like the sun... #
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Every time we were on the plane, they two would start singing.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53It got to the stage where you'd be throwing things at them, you know?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Billy McNeill brought the cine camera on the tour
0:20:58 > 0:21:01and for 50 years, the reels sat in his attic.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Recently rediscovered,
0:21:03 > 0:21:09the grainy footage doesn't show much of the 11 games, 8 wins, 41 goals.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14But what it shows clearly is a happy group of pals bonding into a team.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19We were in New York, we were told never to go out alone,
0:21:19 > 0:21:20be sure two or threes.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23I'm walking past this opening. This guy jumped out and went for me.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25I really nearly wet myself.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26It was Bertie.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32We became one, as a team, you know what I mean?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34And it was through Jock that all happened.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Are you a disciplinarian?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40To a certain extent, yes, I would say so, yeah.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43But I come and go a bit. Probably I'm supposed to be hard,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46but I'm probably softer than most of them.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Celtic won their final game in LA.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53They were undefeated on the tour.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56The Bhoys felt like Hollywood stars.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00We were in the movies every time we got up in the morning.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01I'm no' kidding.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I was all full of love bites. Self-inflicted, right enough.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08After six weeks on the road, they returned to Glasgow...
0:22:08 > 0:22:11fired up and raring to go.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16My son Bobby was born nine months to the day
0:22:16 > 0:22:18his father came back from America.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23And he's not the only one. There are quite a few of them.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29God help me if he'd been early. I'd have been in trouble!
0:22:34 > 0:22:36It was an excited,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40rejuvenated Celtic team that kicked off the new season in 1966.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Stein was introducing a smart, exhilarating form
0:22:44 > 0:22:46of attacking football,
0:22:46 > 0:22:50with Celtic scoring 26 goals in their first six games.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55The city of Glasgow too had idealistic, ambitious plans
0:22:55 > 0:22:58to reinvent itself as a modern metropolis.
0:22:58 > 0:23:03On that is crammed 150,000 of the city's dwellings.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06- But that's ridiculous. - Of course it is, by any standards.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- What are you going to do about it? - Knock them down.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Glasgow began demolishing the old tenements,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16and Stein's Celtic began demolishing European opponents.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32As the modernist Red Road Flats rose in the city skyline,
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Celtic were inventing a new modern brand of football,
0:23:36 > 0:23:38and swept away Swiss champions Zurich.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45In the heart of the city, the new Glasgow is taking shape.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49The times, they were a-changing, and the club was a-changing with them.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55In a pioneering move, Celtic became the first football club in Britain
0:23:55 > 0:23:57to publish its own weekly newspaper.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02The Celtic View was a chance for Jock Stein
0:24:02 > 0:24:04to speak directly to the fans,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08to advertise Celtic fags, and in a time before fan forums,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11the letters page was a platform for lively debate.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18In 1966, in these pages, controversy erupted when The Celtic View
0:24:18 > 0:24:22published a picture of the winner of the Miss Celtic competition.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27Well, that's the sash. It's a lovely green sash. Celtic Queen, 1966.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Miss Celtic's picture was splashed in The View,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35but not everyone welcomed the injection of glamour.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Someone had written in to say
0:24:39 > 0:24:42that they were very surprised at The Celtic View.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44They weren't very happy with the picture,
0:24:44 > 0:24:46because they thought it was a bit immodest.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50I don't know whether they thought my dress or whatever...
0:24:50 > 0:24:55A Mr Black of Wimbledon declared himself shocked and surprised
0:24:55 > 0:24:59at the bad taste and low moral standards of The Celtic View.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03It's hilarious now, but they said it was the Swinging '60s.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05It must have swung right past me.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10But most pages of The Celtic View that season were filled
0:25:10 > 0:25:14with brilliant news - how Jimmy Johnstone inspired Celtic
0:25:14 > 0:25:16past the French champions Nantes.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19One of the French players put it poetically,
0:25:19 > 0:25:21saying that trying to mark Wee Jimmy
0:25:21 > 0:25:24was like trying to pin a wave to the sand.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Jinky was Celtic's most famous player,
0:25:28 > 0:25:32but being a football star was different in an era before agents,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34before multimillion-pound deals,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37and certainly before Wags and nightclubs.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41I met him at a youth club in Viewpark.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44I was coming up for about 17. No drink or nothing.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47A shilling to get in. There were a wee band used to play.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51Sometimes Jimmy used to bring his record player to the youth club.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Got married when I was 19. That was in the taxi.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00When we got married and that, we stayed in his mother's back room.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03We didnae have the money for a house or anything.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Fame was about being able to afford a car, and eating like
0:26:07 > 0:26:09other people ate if they had a few bob -
0:26:09 > 0:26:11a gammon steak with a bit of pineapple on top of it.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13That sort of thing. This is not the high life.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19The Celtic stars ate at their local cafe and married the girl next door.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23More pie and beans than Posh and Becks.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24We always met in here.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27Come in here, go to the pictures, come back up and come in here
0:26:27 > 0:26:30- and have a Coca Cola before we went home.- Happy memories.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- I'd walk her round the road, a wee cuddle.- Mm-hm.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Then I'd run home.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43In 1967, the wedding of the year was Elvis and Priscilla,
0:26:43 > 0:26:45except in Saltcoats.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49The boss turned up for the big day,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51but he wasn't so keen
0:26:51 > 0:26:54when the players' wives turned up for the big games.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59He really didn't like the wives to get together, for some reason.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01After a big game, if we were up in the car,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03the girls had to stand outside the stadium.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07We came out and got them after we were changed, bathed and changed.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10He didnae fancy Mrs Lennox and Mrs Murdoch maybe sitting together
0:27:10 > 0:27:12gabbing about something or whatever, you know?
0:27:12 > 0:27:15He just didn't... He thought... You know, he'd say things like,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18"Does a plumber's wife go and see him fitting a sink?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21"Does a joiner's wife go and see him putting a cupboard up?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24"So why are they coming to the fitba? It's your work."
0:27:24 > 0:27:27But in the case of Mrs Johnstone, he needn't have worried.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31I just went to about four or five games all in.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32In his entire career?!
0:27:35 > 0:27:36That's terrible, I know, isn't it?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40She came one day and she asked me who was Jimmy.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44She didn't know which team was which.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46I says, "You've got to be kidding on."
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I says, "Can you not see Jimmy in that park?"
0:27:50 > 0:27:51That was Agnes.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Agnes didn't know what she was missing.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Sometimes there was only one place in Glasgow to be
0:27:57 > 0:28:01for a big night with singing, dancing and amazing drama.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- COMMENTATOR:- 70,000 voices making a tremendous racket here.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11The only game in the run to the final that I was at
0:28:11 > 0:28:13was Vojvodina Novi Sad, the quarterfinal.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16See when they ran out under the floodlights,
0:28:16 > 0:28:17they looked magnificent.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19You know, they just glowed...
0:28:19 > 0:28:23The Celtic song would play, standing in the Jungle, all floodlights.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26- COMMENTATOR:- Chalmers.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27Johnstone.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30The first leg, it was 1-0 over there.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34It was 1-1 here going into the last couple of minutes.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Billy... When you really needed it, he did it.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45The ball hits the back of the net.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48There's that famous still of the Vojvodina defender on the goal line,
0:28:48 > 0:28:51I think he was the number six, with his arm up, trying to stop the...
0:28:51 > 0:28:53The goalkeeper's... I don't know where he is.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56I think he's gone for it and Billy's just taken him out.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58While some footage of the game survives,
0:28:58 > 0:29:01the only film of the winning goal was captured by a fan's cine cam,
0:29:01 > 0:29:04almost focused on his TV set.
0:29:05 > 0:29:06- COMMENTATOR:- Charlie Gallagher.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Billy McNeill.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10CHEERING
0:29:13 > 0:29:17Celtic are through to the semifinal of the European Cup.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21Billy McNeill has got them there in the last minute of the game.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28Most of Celtic's 1967 season, on and off the pitch,
0:29:28 > 0:29:30was captured in glorious Technicolor.
0:29:33 > 0:29:34With remarkable prescience,
0:29:34 > 0:29:39the club commissioned a film crew to document the season as it unfolded.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Well, I'd done four documentaries for STV.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46By accident, I ran into Bob Kelly, who was then chairman of Celtic,
0:29:46 > 0:29:49who said, "I like the programmes you did.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51"You know there's a good story to be done about Celtic.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53"Would you do it for us?"
0:29:53 > 0:29:57It was a great privilege being allowed to do it, frankly.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00For goalkeeper Simpson, too, a dream year.
0:30:00 > 0:30:05At 36, his 22nd season in senior football.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08So there was quite a lot of people involved in it.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12Oscar Marzaroli did a couple of shifts on the film.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16Bill Forsyth, who went on to make Local Hero and other things.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17Made for cinematic release,
0:30:17 > 0:30:20The Celtic Story is a ground-breaking documentary.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24Not only the story of the club, but featuring fans and players.
0:30:24 > 0:30:25And, for the first time,
0:30:25 > 0:30:28the supporters got to see beyond the dressing room door.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31This can be a year that every one of us can remember,
0:30:31 > 0:30:34so let's make sure that each player helps each other,
0:30:34 > 0:30:38make sure if somebody's having a bad game, somebody near him helps him.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Jock, I mean, he wouldn't allow anything to interfere with football,
0:30:41 > 0:30:43but he didn't mind a couple of things,
0:30:43 > 0:30:45because he knew a story had to be told.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49But as they were shooting the Celtic Story,
0:30:49 > 0:30:53they could never have guessed how it would end.
0:30:59 > 0:31:00Now I'm lost.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05Yes. They've left it open. Good.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Now, it's in here, isn't it? Yeah.
0:31:09 > 0:31:1450 years ago, a new recruit, costing a club record of £30,000,
0:31:14 > 0:31:18walked into this dressing room for the very first time.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20It's fantastic...
0:31:20 > 0:31:22to walk back in again.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23I wish I could play,
0:31:23 > 0:31:24but, you know...
0:31:24 > 0:31:25past.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29But the new boy Willie Wallace was quickly initiated
0:31:29 > 0:31:30into its little secrets.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33I don't think a lot of people would know
0:31:33 > 0:31:36there was a little glass of whisky through the back.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39If you wanted a wee sip of whisky before you went out, it was there.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Just a stimulant, you know.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44There was a few used to have it.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Old Fallon was one of them.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50Ronnie, he liked a wee sniff just before he went out.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53There it is.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Yeah, this is when you knew you were playing. When you got to this bit.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01'My first game in Europe for Celtic
0:32:01 > 0:32:04'was the semifinal of the European Cup.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08'I was nervous going out here.'
0:32:10 > 0:32:12- COMMENTATOR:- 75,000 people,
0:32:12 > 0:32:16practically all of them cheering Celtic for all they're worth.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19Wallace.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21It's a goal for Wallace.
0:32:21 > 0:32:22Wallace has scored.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Things worked out for me.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26I was lucky enough to score a couple of goals.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29I thought, "Well, at least I've paid something back."
0:32:31 > 0:32:34If Wispy's first goal was all about instinct...
0:32:35 > 0:32:36It's a goal for Wallace!
0:32:36 > 0:32:38..the second was all about guile.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Wallace's second goal.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44As Wallace put Jock Stein's training ground theory...
0:32:45 > 0:32:47..into match-winning practice.
0:32:49 > 0:32:50There he is, look at him.
0:32:52 > 0:32:553-1 in Glasgow, and after a goalless draw in Prague,
0:32:55 > 0:32:58Celtic became the first British team
0:32:58 > 0:33:01ever to reach the European Cup Final.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04This feat was all the more remarkable
0:33:04 > 0:33:07as Celtic were involved in a hard-fought league campaign
0:33:07 > 0:33:09against one of the great Rangers teams,
0:33:09 > 0:33:13culminating in a title decider at a rain-soaked Ibrox.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20They had a collectiveness about them, a team spirit,
0:33:20 > 0:33:23great ability, great individuals.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26I always felt, when we played against Celtic in those days,
0:33:26 > 0:33:27you were playing against 12,
0:33:27 > 0:33:32because no matter how well you did in the first half in these games,
0:33:32 > 0:33:36you knew that Jock Stein would do something different at half-time.
0:33:40 > 0:33:45Celtic drew the game to win the treble, as two spies looked on.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48One of them was Helenio Herrera,
0:33:48 > 0:33:51the manager of Inter Milan, Celtic's next European opponents.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Celtic were in the European Cup Final,
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Rangers were in the Cup Winners' Cup Final,
0:33:56 > 0:33:58and Kilmarnock were in the semifinals
0:33:58 > 0:33:59of the old Fairs Cities Cup.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02That's staggering when you think about that now.
0:34:02 > 0:34:06Scotland, just in soccer terms, in football terms, was a hotbed.
0:34:06 > 0:34:10# Sunshine came softly through my
0:34:10 > 0:34:11# Window today... #
0:34:11 > 0:34:15May 1967 was the beginning of the Summer of Love.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17But no-one in Glasgow was going to San Francisco
0:34:17 > 0:34:19with a flower in their hair.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23If they were Celtic fans, they were hoping to travel
0:34:23 > 0:34:27nearly 2,000 miles to Lisbon with shamrocks in their kilt.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30A week-long journey...
0:34:30 > 0:34:32through France...
0:34:32 > 0:34:34over the Pyrenees...
0:34:34 > 0:34:36across Franco's Spain.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38# ..made my mind up
0:34:38 > 0:34:41# You're going to be mine... #
0:34:43 > 0:34:48But fans crammed into any old banger and hit the road.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51There were three cars.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53We were in a Mini Cooper.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57The big mate had just bought a new Hillman.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00Another pal of mine, his wee Morris 1000.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Everybody out on the street, all waving at us, and off we set.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15Green sticky tape along the side of the car.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19I thought, "I'm part of this, this is me, I'm going to Lisbon."
0:35:19 > 0:35:21One of the boys in the other motor,
0:35:21 > 0:35:25he lost his case afore we even got to Bishopbriggs.
0:35:25 > 0:35:26Aff the roof rack!
0:35:30 > 0:35:33You couldn't get a seat on a plane for love nor money,
0:35:33 > 0:35:36but there was a soft porn magazine...
0:35:36 > 0:35:37HE LAUGHS
0:35:37 > 0:35:41It was called Titbits. The parish priest did all the spadework.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45He said, "There's a magazine running a plane, they're called Titbits."
0:35:45 > 0:35:47I said, "Seems a bit dodgy."
0:35:47 > 0:35:49He said, "We got three seats."
0:35:49 > 0:35:51There was another priest in the next-door parish
0:35:51 > 0:35:53was going to come as well.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Finding a seat on a plane was one thing.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Finding the money,
0:35:59 > 0:36:03especially for shipyard workers like Jimmy and Danny, was something else.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Supposed to be saving to get engaged.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09And getting engaged in they days was a big deal.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12And I just said to her, "Look, see this getting married carry-on,
0:36:12 > 0:36:14"saving up for an engagement ring,
0:36:14 > 0:36:17"I'm wanting to go to the final - end of story."
0:36:17 > 0:36:18She wasnae that pleased.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29As Celtic fans began to make their way across the continent,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32the team arrived in Lisbon to prepare.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Stein was leaving nothing to chance,
0:36:37 > 0:36:39and they brought their own steaks,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41square sausages and chops from Scotland.
0:36:43 > 0:36:47Well-fed and rested, the team relaxed in their hotel.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52And the fans continued on their epic journey.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58See even going in the car, you were getting the "toot-toot-toot"
0:36:58 > 0:37:01fae French and everything, because you seen the registrations,
0:37:01 > 0:37:03you know, the Germans and the French and all that.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06They were all for us - unbelievable.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09MUSIC: Les Vendanges De L'amour by Marie Laforet
0:37:12 > 0:37:17And for one young Celtic fan, the journey took an unexpected turn.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22One of the drivers got lost. We ended up in the middle of Nantes.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Go into the station bar, there was a few people there,
0:37:29 > 0:37:32and there was a very attractive young lady behind the bar.
0:37:32 > 0:37:37Her name was Ghislaine, she was 19, she was a student.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40I don't know how it happened, but we got on like a house on fire.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43And within half an hour, I was in love with her.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Time just flew in.
0:37:47 > 0:37:51At one point I turned round, and there was my two companions
0:37:51 > 0:37:53with their heads on the table, fast asleep.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56Put her arms around me and gave me a kiss and I thought,
0:37:56 > 0:37:57"This is the love of my life."
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Charles had a choice.
0:38:00 > 0:38:06Would he je t'aime Ghislaine or would he je t'aime Cel-tique?
0:38:08 > 0:38:10She wanted my Celtic scarf.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13GLASS SMASHES, GASPS
0:38:13 > 0:38:16I said to her, "No, we need it for hanging out the window
0:38:16 > 0:38:19"and I want my Celtic scarf to be in Lisbon."
0:38:19 > 0:38:23I wakened up my companions, and that was us, we were on the road.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30Fans headed south by planes, trains and automobiles.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36We began to see people with green and white scarves.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38It was a trickle at first,
0:38:38 > 0:38:42but the nearer we got to Lisbon, it became a flood.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44It was quite something.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50In 1967, the Portuguese capital was very beautiful, very poor,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53very Catholic, and about to be invaded.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Once we got to Lisbon itself
0:38:56 > 0:38:58and made our way down to the main square,
0:38:58 > 0:39:01it was a sea of green and white.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03The locals were mesmerised,
0:39:03 > 0:39:05they couldn't believe the colour,
0:39:05 > 0:39:08they couldn't believe the volume of people there.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16At the Estadio Nacional on the outskirts of the city,
0:39:16 > 0:39:20Celtic dug out their mismatched training kit for a kickabout,
0:39:20 > 0:39:23much to the amusement of some immaculately attired onlookers.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26Celtic's opponents had won the competition twice
0:39:26 > 0:39:28in the past three years.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35And Inter Milan's Helenio Herrera and Celtic's Jock Stein
0:39:35 > 0:39:38represented two opposing ideologies.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Inter Milan had a reputation for being
0:39:42 > 0:39:46hugely defensive, and in a way, that presented the perfect foil
0:39:46 > 0:39:48for the Celtic of that time.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50The team with the best defence in Europe
0:39:50 > 0:39:53and the team with the best attack in Europe.
0:39:54 > 0:39:58Inter played a negative brand of football known as "catenaccio" -
0:39:58 > 0:40:02disciplined, oppressive, stifling creativity.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04Fascism in a football formation.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09And in city streets, Celtic fans were getting
0:40:09 > 0:40:13a glimpse of life under the rule of Portugal's dictator Salazar.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17The one thing that was remarkable
0:40:17 > 0:40:19is, soldiers with guns, you know?
0:40:19 > 0:40:21And you could see everybody going, "What's this?"
0:40:21 > 0:40:26Those guns were the reality every day for the Portuguese people,
0:40:26 > 0:40:29and some of the things that we were doing,
0:40:29 > 0:40:32like singing in the streets, enjoying ourselves,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35that wasn't accepted by the regime.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38# We shall not be moved... #
0:40:42 > 0:40:46Thursday, May the 25th, 1967
0:40:46 > 0:40:49would be a momentous day in Celtic's history.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52In Glasgow Airport,
0:40:52 > 0:40:56it was an early start for the thousands of fans flying to Lisbon.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01I hadn't even been out of Scotland, never mind going to Europe.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Never been on a plane. Just that happy.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06We just went on the plane and it was a prop plane.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08Prop plane, it wasnae a jet thing.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09Fantastic.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12My dad and I were sitting up at the front of the plane,
0:41:12 > 0:41:15and just before the plane took off, this guy stood up
0:41:15 > 0:41:17and he shouted to the back of the plane,
0:41:17 > 0:41:20"Right, lads, we've got a young girl sitting up here,
0:41:20 > 0:41:23"don't want any cursing or swearing on the way to Lisbon."
0:41:23 > 0:41:25And I was mortified, absolutely embarrassed.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32We took off from Renfrew, and our first stop was...
0:41:32 > 0:41:33Cardiff.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36That was to pick up alcohol!
0:41:38 > 0:41:41By midday, all of the planes had left...
0:41:41 > 0:41:43except one.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47We were meant to leave at 9.15,
0:41:47 > 0:41:50but it became clear that our flight was going to be delayed,
0:41:50 > 0:41:53and the story was it was delayed one hour, then a couple of hours.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55And then it was delayed, and it was delayed,
0:41:55 > 0:41:57and other people were going.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01It's estimated that more than 10,000 Celtic fans
0:42:01 > 0:42:05followed the Bhoys to Lisbon, and they made friends all the way.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09When we got off the plane, they said the bus was outside,
0:42:09 > 0:42:10so we dived outside.
0:42:10 > 0:42:13And one of the guys coming on all of a sudden produced
0:42:13 > 0:42:15a bottle of whisky and a wee cup.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18And he half-filled this wee cup and gave it to the driver.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22The driver said, "Oh..." Portuguese guy.
0:42:24 > 0:42:25Whisky!
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Eventually, the last flight left Glasgow.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31During the whole flight it was, "How long? How long?"
0:42:31 > 0:42:34From 20,000ft or 15,000ft or whatever it was,
0:42:34 > 0:42:35to the plane landed,
0:42:35 > 0:42:37it was just madness on a plane.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39As the kick-off approached,
0:42:39 > 0:42:43players and fans began to arrive at the Estadio Nacional.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47- See when we were going up to that stadium...- The weather was terrific.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49..the weather was brilliant. There was trees,
0:42:49 > 0:42:51bushes with flowers on them...
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Never seen that going to a football match in Scotland.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00And here we're walking up to this place, I said to him,
0:43:00 > 0:43:03"Are you sure this is where this fitba park is?"
0:43:03 > 0:43:04- You just strolled up.- You walked up.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Nae going through turnstiles, you just walked right up.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10Just walked into the gate, naebody asked you for your ticket.
0:43:10 > 0:43:11No ticket or anything.
0:43:12 > 0:43:18The nerves were starting to kick in, the stadium filled with fans...
0:43:20 > 0:43:23..the cameras were ready to beam the game round the world.
0:43:25 > 0:43:26And in the skies above,
0:43:26 > 0:43:30the last flight from Glasgow was coming in to land.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33And everything was in slow motion then,
0:43:33 > 0:43:36because the landing crew, God knows where they were.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39We were the only plane, no steps,
0:43:39 > 0:43:41so I sat down on the ledge and went for it.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44I didn't realise how big a drop that was.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47But I was 19, a pretty fit guy, so I went over and landed
0:43:47 > 0:43:50on my two feet, but it was a long way down, and I hit with a thud.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53But recovered, and there was guys coming behind me,
0:43:53 > 0:43:55just dropping, dropping, dropping.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57And we started running towards the terminal building.
0:43:57 > 0:44:02Back home, the great city of Glasgow was a ghost town.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07I remember the night of the Celtic game
0:44:07 > 0:44:10there was a famous picture appeared in The Daily Express,
0:44:10 > 0:44:13and it was looking down Sauchiehall Street.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17And there was nothing in the street, which was unheard of.
0:44:17 > 0:44:21It was unbelievable, cos everyone was indoors watching this game.
0:44:24 > 0:44:26I remember sitting in my living room,
0:44:26 > 0:44:29my dad was working late and my mum was making the dinner,
0:44:29 > 0:44:32and I just sat there on the edge of the chair.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37I remember praying...
0:44:37 > 0:44:39- LAUGHING:- It's pathetic.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41We've reached the moment of truth.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45Can Celtic become not only the first Scottish, the first British,
0:44:45 > 0:44:48but the first non-Latin team to win the European Cup?
0:44:48 > 0:44:52Everyone from kids in Kilsyth to famous thespians in London
0:44:52 > 0:44:54waited and watched.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57I've been a Celtic supporter
0:44:57 > 0:45:04all my life. So how could I prepare for the most momentous match ever?
0:45:04 > 0:45:08So I just ordered my wife off the field. "Right, take the..."
0:45:08 > 0:45:11I'd four children, or was it five by then?
0:45:11 > 0:45:14"Right, take them out, take the dog out."
0:45:14 > 0:45:17We couldn't get rid of the cat, so the cat joined me on the sofa,
0:45:17 > 0:45:19just like this.
0:45:22 > 0:45:24As the teams emerged from the tunnel,
0:45:24 > 0:45:28Jock Stein's men famously burst into The Celtic Song.
0:45:28 > 0:45:33# For it's a grand old team to play for... #
0:45:36 > 0:45:39It was a lovely, proud feeling when you walked out.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Bobby always came out last.
0:45:46 > 0:45:47That was one of his things.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50He had to be last on the park,
0:45:50 > 0:45:53and it's a sin, because they've got all these fabulous pictures
0:45:53 > 0:45:55of the Lisbon Lions walking out on the park,
0:45:55 > 0:45:58and Bobby's right on the end, so you cannae really see him, you know?
0:45:58 > 0:46:00- COMMENTATOR: - There's Jock Stein on the right.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06You can imagine Inter Milan looking at these guys and going,
0:46:06 > 0:46:08"What is the...? What are we...?"
0:46:08 > 0:46:12And they're walking out on the park, wee Jinky's looking at Facchetti -
0:46:12 > 0:46:14"Are you marking me? Are you marking me?"
0:46:14 > 0:46:18A bunch of boys fae Baillieston and Bellshill and Saltcoats
0:46:18 > 0:46:20walking out there, taking on the best in Europe.
0:46:20 > 0:46:24And wee Jimmy says, "Look at them, wee man, they're like film stars."
0:46:24 > 0:46:26That's the way he says, you wantae have seen their teeth.
0:46:26 > 0:46:29I says, "But can they play?"
0:46:31 > 0:46:33- COMMENTATOR:- Here's Johnstone.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36From the kick-off, Celtic showed that THEY could play.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38Oh, a chance for Johnstone.
0:46:40 > 0:46:45We were in this stadium, the sun's shining, foreign land,
0:46:45 > 0:46:49and there we were, watching our team play in a European final.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Lennox.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56And Johnstone!
0:46:56 > 0:46:58Oh, and a great save by Sarti!
0:46:58 > 0:47:03Celtic fans were soon reminded that streetwise Inter were there to win.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07A penalty? He's given it, it's a penalty. It's a penalty.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11- HE SIGHS - Sick. Absolutely sick, man, couldn't believe it.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15And they've given away a penalty after only seven minutes.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18He went down like a sack of potatoes and the referee, I think,
0:47:18 > 0:47:19was conned into it.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22And listen to the Celtic fans and the Portuguese fans.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25It's 1-0 for Inter!
0:47:25 > 0:47:27You fear the worst then, know what I mean?
0:47:27 > 0:47:30Knowing the Italian team, you think, "That's it, they've scored."
0:47:30 > 0:47:32That's it, end of story.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36It will be interesting to see whether Inter now come right back.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41Catenaccio is Italian for "door-bolt",
0:47:41 > 0:47:45and as soon as they were ahead, Inter's defence bolted the door.
0:47:45 > 0:47:50Got to score two. That's it, there's no other way you're going to win it.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53Auld... Oh, and a great...!
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Lennox! Oh, a brilliant...
0:47:56 > 0:48:02Celtic attacked, and nearly 2,000 miles away, a city held its breath.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04COMMENTARY ECHOES
0:48:04 > 0:48:08..in the Celtic half. And even now Inter won't come out.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12Just a massive, massive TV event, you know?
0:48:12 > 0:48:15My father was working in the Red Road flats at the time,
0:48:15 > 0:48:19and he watched the end of the first half on Springburn Road somewhere,
0:48:19 > 0:48:22in some TV shop, with a crowd of people looking in.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26While the world watched in black and white...
0:48:26 > 0:48:28Oh, great shot and a wonderful save!
0:48:28 > 0:48:31..Cinema Celtic captured the game in colour.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34Or at least, most of it.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36There was only one camera,
0:48:36 > 0:48:39so you had to change reels and hope that nobody scored a goal
0:48:39 > 0:48:40while you were changing reels!
0:48:40 > 0:48:44The one incident we missed, we couldn't get,
0:48:44 > 0:48:48which I've seen on the black and white television version,
0:48:48 > 0:48:54is when Ronnie Simpson, halfway up into his own half, backheels.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Well, how about that for confidence?
0:48:58 > 0:49:01I apologised to Jock and said, "We haven't got that."
0:49:01 > 0:49:04"Just as well, should never have done that."
0:49:04 > 0:49:07He was raging at the risk he was taking.
0:49:07 > 0:49:08The half-time whistle goes,
0:49:08 > 0:49:12one goal to nil in a heartbreaking game not only for Celtic supporters
0:49:12 > 0:49:14but for all those who cherish attacking football.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17They hung on and hung on and proved what they are.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19They were hard to score against.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22- ARCHIE MACPHERSON:- Celtic aren't obviously just taking on Inter,
0:49:22 > 0:49:25they're trying to end the ice age of defensive European football.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29Celtic were now facing their biggest challenge.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36But Stein believed in his team, and his team believed in Stein.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38The big man had come a long way
0:49:38 > 0:49:41from the dark coalfields of Lanarkshire
0:49:41 > 0:49:43to the evening light of Lisbon.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46The players too had come from kicking a ball in Glasgow streets
0:49:46 > 0:49:48to a pristine pitch
0:49:48 > 0:49:51at the very pinnacle of European football.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53And the fans had spent their life savings
0:49:53 > 0:49:58to travel nearly 2,000 miles to support the team they loved.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02Stein had always urged his players to remember who they were,
0:50:02 > 0:50:05where they came from and who they played for.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07He told his skilful young team
0:50:07 > 0:50:10to remain true to his footballing philosophy.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15And the goal that ended decades of stifling,
0:50:15 > 0:50:19defensive catenaccio was made in Glasgow.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Clark, to Murdoch.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26In comes Craig.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Gemmell - he's scored a great goal!
0:50:31 > 0:50:33CHEERING
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Gemmell, a great goal.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40What we were doing was excitement, just jumping about.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42"Oh, ya dancer!" You know?
0:50:44 > 0:50:47I just greet every time.
0:50:47 > 0:50:50- VOICE BREAKING:- Every time I see these things.
0:50:52 > 0:50:53And I greet when...
0:50:53 > 0:50:56- HE SIGHS - ..Tommy Gemmell scores.
0:50:56 > 0:51:01Tommy Gemmell has done this time and time again for Celtic...
0:51:01 > 0:51:03Don't use this one...
0:51:03 > 0:51:04Oh, dear!
0:51:06 > 0:51:09In the stadium, in living rooms at home
0:51:09 > 0:51:12and across the entire continent,
0:51:12 > 0:51:16everyone was now willing on the 11 boys from Glasgow.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18Oh, he's hit the bar!
0:51:18 > 0:51:22The Portuguese around us couldn't believe Celtic were
0:51:22 > 0:51:25running rings round them, playing this wonderful football.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Johnstone.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31Celtic were cutting through Inter's defensive system,
0:51:31 > 0:51:35but time and time again were thwarted by the brilliance
0:51:35 > 0:51:36of the Inter Milan goalie.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Oh, what a save by Sarti.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41That guy was out of this planet!
0:51:41 > 0:51:44You wantae see some of the saves he was coming away wi'.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46We're going like that, "Sarti!"
0:51:46 > 0:51:49Five minutes left now, one goal each.
0:51:49 > 0:51:54It was to be the most important five minutes in 11 men's lives.
0:51:55 > 0:52:00The most joyous five minutes for the thousands crowded round TVs
0:52:00 > 0:52:02in an industrial city 2,000 miles away.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08The most memorable five minutes in Celtic Football Club's history.
0:52:12 > 0:52:13Gemmell.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17Murdoch! A goal!
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Celtic have scored!
0:52:19 > 0:52:21- HE MIMICS BALL BEING STRUCK - We're in.
0:52:21 > 0:52:22HE ROARS
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Most important goal we've ever scored.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30I think Chalmers put it in.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32To complete the fairy tale,
0:52:32 > 0:52:34the man who was once told by doctors
0:52:34 > 0:52:37that he had just weeks to live
0:52:37 > 0:52:39scored the goal of his life.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43It just gives me goose bumps when you hear "Chalmers" getting shouted.
0:52:43 > 0:52:44"It's Chalmers!"
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Stevie Chalmers put it in.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49The cat was flying as high as the roof
0:52:49 > 0:52:51and it fell,
0:52:51 > 0:52:53and then my wife came rushing in,
0:52:53 > 0:52:55thinking I'd had a heart attack or something.
0:52:57 > 0:53:02The crowd started moving. And you went wi' them, you know?
0:53:02 > 0:53:03Oh, man.
0:53:03 > 0:53:07And the whistle is going, and Celtic have won the European Cup,
0:53:07 > 0:53:11and onto the field come thousands of Celtic fans.
0:53:12 > 0:53:14This is a great moment.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18They won! They won!
0:53:21 > 0:53:22You just jumped about wild,
0:53:22 > 0:53:26and you couldnae get near anybody because every player was...
0:53:26 > 0:53:30There were hunners round them, you just couldnae...
0:53:31 > 0:53:35There was an explosion of joy in Lisbon and Glasgow.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44Fighting his way through the delirious crowd
0:53:44 > 0:53:47was an exhausted Billy McNeill.
0:53:47 > 0:53:52Handsome and proud, every inch the inspirational captain.
0:53:52 > 0:53:57The man they called Cesar lifted the cup for all the world to see.
0:53:57 > 0:54:02Fantastic moment for Celtic, and how well they deserve it.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05It's a frozen in time moment.
0:54:05 > 0:54:09Because I still picture big Billy up with the cup,
0:54:09 > 0:54:13and it'll remain in my mind till the day I die.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46FANS SING
0:54:48 > 0:54:5450 years after that win, Celtic fans are still celebrating Lisbon.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15The 67th minute.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18Now, come here...
0:55:18 > 0:55:21What other club, or what other support, in the world
0:55:21 > 0:55:23would have that in their mind, to do that?
0:55:26 > 0:55:291967 was not just a triumph for Glasgow Celtic.
0:55:29 > 0:55:331967 was a triumph for Glasgow.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37No European Cup-winning side before or since
0:55:37 > 0:55:41has won the trophy with a team of 11 local heroes.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48Mythical. There's no other word to describe it, it's mythical.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51The 300 Spartans or the defenders of the Alamo or something.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53There's a heroism about them.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58I meet people and they'll say to me, "What's your name?"
0:55:58 > 0:56:01"Willie Wallace." "Oh, you're a Lisbon Lion."
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Doesn't matter where you are in the world.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07And it just changed our lives forever.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10The sunburn has long since faded,
0:56:10 > 0:56:15but the fans who went to Lisbon still have their own souvenirs
0:56:15 > 0:56:17and their own stories to tell.
0:56:17 > 0:56:22When I got home, I got my Celtic scarf and I parcelled it up
0:56:22 > 0:56:27and I wrote a letter to Ghislaine, Bar de la Gare, Nantes.
0:56:29 > 0:56:30I never heard from her.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33I got married to her a year later.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36- Honeymoon in Lisbon. - Honeymoon in Lisbon.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38- Really?- BOTH: No, no, no.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40It was a caravan in Girvan, actually.
0:56:40 > 0:56:44- COMMENTATOR: - Glory hovering over Parkhead.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49It'll never be equalled, I don't think. Absolutely amazing.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53And I can imagine the scenes back in Scotland tonight.
0:56:54 > 0:56:58From Maryhill, Saltcoats, Uddingston, Govan
0:56:58 > 0:57:00and all across Glasgow,
0:57:00 > 0:57:04came football-daft wee boys with big dreams.
0:57:06 > 0:57:11It's pretty hard to look back without a great sense of loss.
0:57:13 > 0:57:16There's a photograph just inside the door of Celtic Park
0:57:16 > 0:57:19which is just the 11 players.
0:57:22 > 0:57:26- VOICE BREAKING:- Just taken shortly after that day, that's in my memory.
0:57:38 > 0:57:39We were like brothers.
0:57:40 > 0:57:42I loved them. Absolutely loved them.
0:57:45 > 0:57:47I miss them.
0:57:50 > 0:57:55Simpson, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Clark, Lennox, Auld,
0:57:55 > 0:57:58Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00The Lions of Lisbon.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04Bobby just always said he would never change his time.
0:58:06 > 0:58:10I'm going to get emotional now. That he was...
0:58:10 > 0:58:15That was his team, that was his time, he loved playing.
0:58:15 > 0:58:19He loved Celtic always, anyway, but, I mean, he loved that
0:58:19 > 0:58:22and that was his time, and he wouldn't change his time.
0:58:23 > 0:58:25He would never have...
0:58:25 > 0:58:27That was what he just said, he would never have changed his time.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33# And you are willing it to end?
0:58:33 > 0:58:38# You promised me a feeling
0:58:38 > 0:58:45# Something to believe in
0:58:45 > 0:58:52# You promised me a feeling
0:58:53 > 0:58:58# And I promised to be real. #