Greatest Games: Racing Club 1 Celtic 0, 1967
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In episode two of Greatest Games, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Daniel Edwards to discuss the 1967 Intercontinental Cup play-off between Copa Libertadores and European Cup winners, Racing Club and Celtic.  After a pair of acrimonious games in Glasgow and Buenos Aires, the tie would have to be decided on neutral ground at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. Billy McNeill captained the European champions, with Jock Stein on the sidelines, into a game has since been dubbed “The Battle of Montevideo”. About the panel: Jonathan Wilson founded The Blizzard in 2011 and is editor of the magazine. He’s a contributor to a number of publications including The Guardian and Sports Illustrated as well as having authored  Behind the Curtain, Inverting the Pyramid, The Outsider, Angels with Dirty Faces and most recently The Names Heard Long Ago, among others.  Marcus Speller is a host of the Football Ramble podcast as well as Answerable Questions with Questionable Answers. Marcus also regularly hosts our live Q&A events across the country alongside Jonathan. Daniel Edwards is an Argentina-based football journalist regularly contributing to Goal, Bleacher Report and appears on English-language Argentine football podcast, Hand of Pod. Order Issue 38, our newest release, here: http://theblizzard.co.uk/shop/product/issue-thirty-eight Unlock our archives with a subscription from just £20: http://theblizzard.co.uk/subscriptions
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