Fans in Milan today for the final of the Champions League are being given another reminder of Scottish football’s greatest day with a giant sized flag celebrating Celtic’s 1967 triumph.
With the great, good and dodgy of world football gathering in the northern Italian city the history of football’s greatest trophy is being celebrated to the full.
Real Madrid will be going for the trophy for the 11th time, in 2014 they beat city rivals Atletico to the trophy with the remaining Lisbon Lions looking on with that final also staged in the Portuguese capital.
All of the finals are being remembered and celebrated with the 1967 final bringing mixed feelings to the city of Milan.
Having won the competition in 1964 and 1965 the loss to Celtic was a shock to Inter but as the years passed, and after gaining revenge in the 1972 semi-final; there appears to be a level of pride within Inter that they took part in such a monumental match.
This is the Champions Lge ” Walk Way ” in Milan Main Street.
For tonights Champs League Final#Celtic pic.twitter.com/NyjRjhdJVJ— Celtic Collectibles (@CollectCelticFC) May 28, 2016
With the backing of 10,000 green and white clad supporters, the majority being outside the UK for the first time, Celtic stunned the continent as they became the first non Latin side to triumph.
A new trophy had been commissioned, the original was handed over to Real Madrid to mark their fifth success with McNeill the first man to get his hands on the new look trophy.
In the decade following Celtic’s success the new look trophy visited Manchester, Liverpool, Amsterdam and Rotterdam but in recent times it has returned to Latin ownership with Barcelona and Real Madrid enjoying a modern monopoly.
