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It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast

The Trilogy of Violence: Celtic v Racing 1967 - Part One

It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast

The Overlap

History, Rob Draper, Jonathan Wilson, Football, It What Was What It Was, The Overlap, Football History, Premier League, Four Four Two, When Saturday Comes, English Football, The Blizzard, Stick To Football, Sports, Soccer

4.9667 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on It Was What It Was, we’re traveling back to 1967, when Celtic’s legendary Lisbon Lions clashed with Racing Club in an unforgettable, fiery three-match series for the Intercontinental Cup.

 

In Part One, Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper set the stage before the first leg at Hampden Park, where Jock Stein’s side secured a 1-0 advantage to take to South America - though the real drama was just beginning.

 

Join us on Thursday for the thrilling conclusion of this historic showdown in Part Two!

 

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0:00.0

The crazy thing is, when I got up close to the goalkeeper, there were 80,000 people there and television cameras, but what came into my head was, if I hit this guy, nobody will see me.

0:19.5

Big Jock came up to me after and said,

0:21.7

What were you thinking?

0:23.1

And I was stupid enough to repeat that to him.

0:25.5

You can imagine what he said.

0:28.0

So welcome to it was what it was with me, Rob Draper and with Jonathan Wilson.

0:31.8

And that was John Hughes, the Celtic forward on, frankly, attacking the Rasingkeeper, Augustin Sejas,

0:39.2

in the playoff of the Intercontinental Cup in 1967.

0:43.1

And today we're talking about one of the great games of all time.

0:46.7

It may not be a game you've particularly heard of,

0:49.3

but it really is one of the most notorious, one of the most fascinating clashes,

0:54.0

or in football history, I think,

0:56.1

between Rasing and Celtic in 1967, it is the Intercontinental Cup.

1:00.7

What today we would call the World Club Cup, but in those days was just the champions of Europe playing

1:05.9

the champions of South America.

1:08.8

And it was such a tight game.

1:10.6

There was one game in Glasgow, another game in Aphesaneda, and resulted in a draw.

1:16.8

And in those days, they just hung around in South America for three days to have a

1:20.3

playoff game in Montevideo in Uruguay, which in itself is quite extraordinary.

1:24.2

It's just, as you can tell from the quote, a very violent game, a huge clash of

1:28.5

cultures and football stars. And Jonathan, tell us a little bit about this and fill us in on the

1:33.6

background. I mean, you're right. It is a notorious game. It is notorious for its violence. And

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