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It was a football season like no other, before
or since. In 1966-67 Scottish football was the best in Europe, if
not the world. The Scotland national team humbled world champions
England and on their own Wembley turf too. Celtic became the first
British side to win club football’s most glittering prize, the
European Cup. Rangers kept pace with their ancient rivals all the
way to a European final of their own. Kilmarnock and Dunfermline
performed with distinction in Europe as well and Dundee United, in
their first ever European tie, humbled mighty Barcelona both home
and away.
In the domestic game a tense title battle, keen
contests for European places, relegation dogfights and battles for
promotion kept interest alive until the last ball was kicked. The
Scottish Cup witnessed the greatest upset of all time when little
Berwick Rangers knocked out their Glasgow namesakes. Then at the
end of this momentous season, one of Scottish football’s oldest
names, Third Lanark, vanished after 95 years. For the first time
the story of this thrilling season is told in print. Re-live the
days when Scottish football bestrode the world, when to be a
football fan and Scottish was...‘VERY
HEAVEN’ |
