Atletico Madrid legend and captain in their 1974 shame game against Celtic, Adelardo Rodríguez, incredibly blamed Hoops' icon Jimmy Johnstone for…
Atletico Madrid legend and captain in their 1974 shame game against Celtic, Adelardo Rodríguez, incredibly blamed Hoops' icon Jimmy Johnstone for the infamous mayhem that night.Celtic face Atletico tonight in the Champions League, but the La Liga giants have dragged up painful memories of one of the most notorious games ever to take place by insisting on wearing the exact same replica strip of the one they wore on April 10, 49 years ago in the first leg of the European Cup semi-final.
However, Rodriguez, who is now 84 and won three Spanish titles in 553 appearances, put the blame squarely on Johnstone, who passed away 17 years ago."He was a very skillful player, very quick, good. Of course he was fouled. That's normal. What happened is that he multiplied it tenfold with his gestures, his pretending and that's why he got on our nerves and got the crowd going."The ref sent off three players and I had to mark him and I had a hard time with him.
"When I finished I told him 'I'll wait for you in Madrid'. The police and his coaches surrounded him so that no one would mess with him. They didn't let me go any further. He pointed out:"Celtic were very confident that they would qualify, that's why they were so angry. They were unable to beat us with eight players for more than 25 minutes.
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