Bobby Lennox:

"My recollection is that I had to pass my own team-mate Joe McBride as well as Liverpool's defender Ron Yeats to get to the ball before I scored.

"We had won the first leg at Celtic Park 1-0 and that goal would have seen us lose 2- 1 on the night but go through on away goals.

"The reaction of our fans was the telling factor. They went loopy and threw cans and bottles when the final whistle sounded a couple of minutes after the referee's decision.

"It was a terrible decision then and it's a terrible decision now.

"I was so disappointed I didn't even go to the final at Hampden to see how Liverpool got on against the Germans. And I wasn't alone.

The ground was only one-third full as Borussia Dortmund lifted the cup with a 2-1 win.

"The funny thing is I remember being in town on the day before the game with Jimmy Johnstone and we bumped into Ron Yeats.

"He told us Celtic ought to have been in the final. But it's easy to talk like that when you've already won the semi."

Lennox scored the goal that beat Liverpool at Parkhead and relished the visit to the mecca of pop music and theatre of dreams Bill Shankly had started to construct at Anfield.

He said: "It was the time of the original Kop and the days before all seated grounds so the fans swayed back and forth as they sang `You'll Never Walk Alone'.

"There were so many travelling fans in Liverpool that night in 1966 that our coach could barely make it into Anfield before the game.

"Afterwards a lot of people said to me that the defeat might have been a blessing in disguise because Celtic won the European Cup by beating Inter Milan in the final a year later and the legend of Lisbon Lions came into being.

"But I didn't agree with that.

"If we had been allowed to get past Liverpool we would have gone into the European Cup as holders of the Cup Winners' Cup.