The Holy Poet\u00a0pens his tribute to the Lions<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
The bronzed gods knew how to offend<\/p>\n
Just a pub pub team from Glasgow’s east end<\/p>\n
The men from Inter knew they could not fail<\/p>\n
Bertie looked to Jinky in dismay<\/p>\n
And the wee man said “But can they play?”<\/p>\n
And the tunnel’s Celtic choir sang out Hail Hail.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Inter thought they’d just turn up<\/p>\n
They looked the part. They’d lift the cup<\/p>\n
They only came to Lisbon for a tan<\/p>\n
And tanned they were by Celtic’s bhoy’s<\/p>\n
As Lisbon’s Jungle made some noise<\/p>\n
And the Lions roared through every football land.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A penalty! \u00a0Jim said he dived<\/p>\n
Mazzola scored, we nearly cried<\/p>\n
But Celtic’s been through all of this before<\/p>\n
Big Tam rattled in our first<\/p>\n
Then Stevie tapped in Glesga’s curse<\/p>\n
Two – One to Celtic was the final score.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For Inter this wasn’t just defeat<\/p>\n
It was humiliation, pure, complete<\/p>\n
Lisbon witnessed Celtic’s sea of green<\/p>\n
Thousands came to see their players<\/p>\n
With each one saying a thousand prayers<\/p>\n
And the man who brought them here was big Jock Stein.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He told Hererra this cup’s green<\/p>\n
Won by a style he’d never seen<\/p>\n
Pure, beautiful, inventive was his aim<\/p>\n
Our love for him will never wane<\/p>\n
And like The Lions that love still remains<\/p>\n
Celtic showed the world how to play the game.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It’s been fifty years since that great game<\/p>\n
When every Lion rose to fame<\/p>\n
And London last night sampled Paradise<\/p>\n
We sang and danced into the night<\/p>\n
While The Grosvenor smiled at our delight<\/p>\n
As The Lions brought on Celtic’s greatest prize.<\/p>\n
Paul Colvin.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Holy Poet\u00a0pens his tribute to the Lions Pure, beautiful and Inventive. 67 The bronzed gods knew how to offend Just a pub…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0431-e1495574458601.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-2Zv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11513,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions\/11513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}