Photo: Atletico to commemorate victory over Celtic when teams meet in UCL

Atletico Madrid will wear a special shirt in tribute to their 1973/74 meeting with Celtic. The teams met in the European Cup Semi Final, with the Spaniards winning 2-0 on aggregate.

The game was marred in controversy due to Atletico’s tactics of booting Jimmy Johnstone wherever they could in the 0-0 first leg meeting. Fortunately, justify prevailed and Bayern Munich dumped them out in the Final.

Celtic host the La Liga side in what is a must win game for Rodgers’ team. After their dismantling of Hearts 4-1 at Tynecastle, the domestic form has been good and there will be hopes that this will translate into continental success.

Hopefully Celtic can spoil their commemoration of 1973/74 season.

WHERE YOU THERE?

If you were at this European Cup semi-final between Celtic and Atletico Madrid we’d love to hear your stories and memories of that disgraceful match when Atletico Madrid shamed the beautiful game…

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Born just as Celtic were stopping the Ten, Lubo98 follows Celtic home and away and helps run his local Celtic Supporters Club. He goes to all the games and is a Law Graduate. Has a particular fondness for Tom Rogic among the current Celts and both Lubo and Henrik form his earliest Celtic memories.

1 Comment

  1. If Atletico really wanted to ”honour” the team from 1974 they should wear a stripey uniform with little arrows on it – an old fashioned prison outfit , as most of that team should have ended up in gaol if there were any justice in the world . Or if Uefa were a less corrupt organisation !