Celtic Lisbon Lions legends voted fourth best British club side in history as 2 Rangers teams make top 30 list

The Lisbon Lions have been chosen as the fourth-best team in British football history following a poll of experts at best-selling soccer magazine Four Four Two.

Jock Stein’s all-conquering Celtic side became the first British club to win the European Cup when they beat Inter Milan 2-1 in the 1967 final. They also won the championship, the Scottish Cup and the League Cup that year. Pep Guardiola’s 2022/23 Manchester City collected the most votes. Funded by the United Arab Emirates, they finally won the Champions League last season, adding the Premier League title and the FA Cup along the way.

The Liverpool side of 1980-84, with Scots trio Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Alan Hansen their key men, won the European Cup in 1981 and 1984 and were ranked second in this list. Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United were the first English club to win the much-coveted treble their noisy neighbours completed 24 years later. The ending to their 2-1 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich is part of football’s folklore and they claimed third place.

The magazine ranked Walter Smith’s Rangers from 1992/93 at 14 (out of 30). Back when UEFA insisted clubs could field only three non-nationals, Ally McCoist and Co were just win away from the first-ever Champions League final, having cleaned up domestically. Brendan Rodgers’ debut season at Parkhead in 2016/17 saw his Invincibles claim an unprecedented treble without losing a game, an achievement which placed then at No.27 on this list.

Steven Gerrard’s Rangers team which stopped Neil Lennon’s Celtic from claiming a record tenth successive title in 2020/21 were also undefeated in the Premiership but failure to win either of the cups sees them one place below their derby rivals. The