Paul Lambert ended up a Champions League champion in his first ever venture into European football’s top competition. But he was playing in a side brimming with World Cup and European Championship winners.
That’s why the former Celtic skipper insists there’s no way the Hoops’ Euro rookies should be criticised for failing to even register a single group stage victory on their return to the top table in the past eight weeks. Lambert had to learn quick when he left Motherwell to join Borussia Dortmund in a sensational transfer 26 years ago.
He did just that and ended up getting his mitts on the biggest prize of all in his first year when the Bundesliga giants dumped Juventus in Munich’s Olympic Stadium. But the former midfielder, now 53, admits he was swept along by a Dortmund side brimming with superstar quality like Karl Heinz-Reidle, Andreas Moller, Paulo Sousa, Stephane Chapuisat and Matthias Sammer.
