Lisbon Lions inducted into the Scottish Hall of Fame

50 years after winning the competition


http://www.celticfc.net/news/13383


THE Lisbon Lions have been inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in recognition of their historic achievement in winning the European Cup 50 years ago. And several of the Lions were at a special event in the National Stadium to receive the well-deserved accolade

Celtic's triumph on May 25, 1967 saw them defeat Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon's Estadio Nacional to become the first British side to win the European Cup, and throughout this 50th-anniversary year, there have been many events to celebrate that momentous success.

Jim Craig, on behalf of the Lisbon Lions, said: “It is very humbling to be honoured in this way and we are delighted to receive this kind of recognition.

"It has been an emotional year for all the Lions and our families. There have been so many wonderful tributes organised by Celtic and we have enjoyed so many fantastic moments as we have marked this special 50th anniversary year.

“We're delighted now to also mark this very special year by entry to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.”

Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell said: "The Lisbon Lions are highly deserving of any honour they receive. They are a group of men who put Scottish football firmly on the map so many years ago by becoming the first British club to win the greatest prize of all in club football.

"As a club we have been delighted over so many years to pay tribute to their success and have just celebrated a very special anniversary year in style. "It is fantastic that they have now been recognised in this way, by taking their rightful place in the Hall of Fame."

 

Better late than never

 

Yup.

50 years later....

 

Should have been sooner.

 

Kind of embarrassing it's taken so long.

Should've been the first inductees. No team will ever achieve what those men did.

 

Quite simply easily the greatest achievement in the history of Scottish Football and one of the great achievements in the history of world sport.

 

Few pictures from the Event

 

Yip.

Absolutely embarrassing, yet not surprising.

* even the huns of 1972, and the Aberdeen mob that won their Euro Cup should be in it.

 

Incredible. Half of them are now dead and should have had the honour of being inducted into the Hall of Fame in their lifetime.

I think I heard a Scottish journo say not too long ago (may have been Spiers when commenting on the Libson 50th celebrations) that the reason the Hun team of 72 is not held in the same esteem is because (a) obviously it's a grossly inferior achievement, but (b) when they won the ECWC trophy their fans disgraced Scotland by invading the pitch and trashing Barcelona.

 

Should have been inducted years ago

 

The Hall of Fame was introduced in 2004.

This is 2017, nearly 2018.

These are the inductees since 2014:

2004 Jim Baxter [5]
2004 Billy Bremner [5]
2004 Matt Busby [5]
2004 Kenny Dalglish [5]
2004 Alex Ferguson [5]
2004 Hughie Gallacher [5]
2004 John Greig [5]
2004 Jimmy Johnstone [5]
2004 Denis Law [5]
2004 Dave Mackay [5]
2004 Danny McGrain [5]
2004 Jimmy McGrory [5]
2004 Billy McNeill [5]
2004 Willie Miller [5]
2004 Bobby Murdoch [5]
2004 Bill Shankly [5]
2004 Gordon Smith [5]
2004 Graeme Souness [5]
2004 Jock Stein [5]
2004 Willie Woodburn [5]
2005 Charles Campbell [6]
2005 Alex James [6]
2005 Joe Jordan [6]
2005 Bobby Lennox [6]
2005 Jim McLean [6]
2005 Alex McLeish [6]
2005 Alan Morton [6]
2005 Lawrie Reilly [6]
2005 William Waddell [6]
2005 John White [6]
2005 George Young [6]
2006 Davie Cooper [2]
2006 Tommy Gemmell [2]
2006 Richard Gough [2]
2006 Willie Henderson [2]
2006 Sandy Jardine [2]
2006 Henrik Larsson [2]
2006 Brian Laudrup [2]
2006 Willie Ormond [2]
2006 John Robertson [2]
2006 Billy Steel [2]
2006 Tommy Walker [2]
2007 Willie Bauld [3]
2007 Eric Caldow [3]
2007 Jimmy Cowan [3]
2007 Alan Hansen [3]
2007 Ally McCoist [3]
2007 Rose Reilly [3]
2007 Walter Smith [3]
2007 Gordon Strachan [3]
2007 Eddie Turnbull [3]
2008 Bobby Evans [1]
2008 Archie Gemmill [1]
2008 Derek Johnstone [1]
2008 Jim Leighton [1]
2008 Billy Liddell [1]
2008 Ian St. John [1]
2008 Bill Struth [1]
2008 John Thomson [1]
2009 Steve Archibald [7]
2009 Bertie Auld [7]
2009 Jimmy Delaney [7]
2009 Alan Gilzean [7]
2009 Mo Johnston [7]
2009 Paul Lambert [7]
2009 Willie Maley [7]
2009 David Meiklejohn [7]
2010 Craig Brown [8]
2010 Andy Goram [8]
2010 Bobby Johnstone [8]
2010 Paul McStay [8]
2010 David Narey [8]
2010 Tiny Wharton [8]
2011 Terry Butcher [9]
2011 Pat Crerand [9]
2011 Robert Smyth McColl [9]
2011 Ronnie Simpson [9]
2012 Pat Stanton [10]
2012 Bob McPhail [10]
2012 Gordon McQueen [10]
2012 Frank McLintock [10]
2012 Andrew Watson [10]
2013 Bobby Walker [11]
2013 Eddie Gray [11]
2013 Alan Rough [11]
2013 Scot Symon [11]
2013 Martin Buchan [11]
2013 Tommy Docherty [11]
2014 Bill Brown [4]
2014 Peter Lorimer [4]
2014 McCrae's Battalion [4]
2014 Davie Wilson [4]
2014 Charlie Nicholas [4]
2015 Bobby Brown [12]
2015 George Graham [12]
2015 Stewart Hillis [12]
2015 Ally MacLeod [12]
2015 Maurice Malpas [12]
2016 Stevie Chalmers [13]
2016 John Wark [13]
2016 Gary McAllister [13]
2016 Jock Wallace, Jr. [13]
2016 Alex Smith [13]
2017 John Clark [14]
2017 Willie Wallace [14]
2017 Jim Craig [14]
2017 John McGovern [14]
2017 Allan McGraw [14]
2017 Archie Macpherson [14]
2017 Queen's Park [14]
2017 Lisbon Lions



Make of that what you will, Timmy...

 

* Tiny Wharton!?

Wasn't he a dirty Hun ref? Like the Dallas of his day!?? He's in before the * Lions!

 

Ally McCoist and Walter Smith inducted before Bertie Auld. For * sake

 

Maurice Malpas inducted before the Lions is all you need to know about the Scottish football hall of fame

 

Anti-Catholicism at its finest.

 

Should have told them to shove it

 

Reading back. Starting 11 in there Individually. Jinky back in the first year.