Celtic’s Lisbon Lions Have Been Voted The Best Club Side Of All Time In A BBC Poll.

Just weeks after some of our clownish media made the ludicrous suggestion that Celtic’s achievement in Lisbon might be overshadowed if Ibrox’s rag-bag side had won the Europa League, the Lions have been voted the greatest club side of all time in a BBC poll.

The result wasn’t even close; the Lions won the poll with 34% of the vote, putting them a full 10 percentage points in front of their closest challengers, the Barcelona side of 2011.

Even accounting for a serious online social media campaign, it is a huge achievement and clearly reflects a greater understanding of the accomplishment than exists here at home.

Celtic’s Lisbon team was famously comprised of only home-grown footballers.

Those who claim that Group Stages and other tweaks to the tournaments have made them harder to win are overlooking just how good that team was … they reached two European Cup Finals, two semi-finals and two quarter-finals in short order and would have been amongst the favourites whatever the format of the competitions had been.

We were as good as anybody.

There have been a few European sides who have tried – and failed – to do what the Lions did; we did the clean sweep that year.

Liverpool were the latest club to think that they could achieve that momentous goal … and they fell short both in the league and in the European Cup itself. This just goes to show how incredible it was.

Every one of the clubs which was named on the list was worthy of being there.

Know who wasn’t there, and wouldn’t have been there even if they had “achieved the impossible?” The Ibrox side of 2021-22. Those who think they would have come even close to Lisbon were deluded flat-earth pro-Sevco nutters.

What that team did stands alone … above all their contemporaries, above all challengers, above and beyond even what the great sides from other nations achieved.

It will never be equalled, far less beaten.