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WHEN Barcelona step out at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night, they will do so as a team worthy to rival the legends of British football, the Lisbon Lions and the Busby Babes.
For when Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967 - indeed, the first non-Latin club to do so - manager Jock Stein achieved that triumph fielding a team including 10 players who were from Glasgow or its suburbs, just as he was. Bobby Lennox, whose home town was 30 miles away in Saltcoats, was the comparative outsider.See the full content of this document
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Barcelona Are Kings of the Home-Grown League
And when Busby matched their victory a year later, with the team created out of the disaster of Munich that killed eight of his young players 10 years before, he did so with a line-up that included eight graduates from United's youth tea...
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