Although Celtic’s Champion’s League tie against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu [onWednesady evening] may be a ‘dead rubber’, no football fan needs reminded of the kudos of a game in that stunning stadium against the ‘Kings’ of European football, fourteen times winners of the competition, including its predecessor the European Cup. A club synonomous with success at the highest level, it has fielded players of outstanding pedigree from all over the world and without delving too deeply names such as Di Stefano, Puskas, Zidane and currently Benzema spring to mind.
Their cast of foreign male players features only one from Scotland, now virtually unknown but whose photograph with the St.Andrew’s Cross flag alongside hangs proudly in the club museum flanked by players from Germany, Denmark, Slovakia and Brazil and their accompanying national flags.
