Fifty years ago sons of Glasgow marched on Lisbon, as Celtic became the first British team to win football’s European Cup. Now the city’s rugby Warriors are striving for their own European conquest — at the home of seemingly invincible Saracens.

Munster’s courageous recapture of Glasgow en route towards reinstating Limerick as Europe’s rugby capital raises a strange question this morning: What ever happened to the drop goal?

Almost half a century has come and gone since Europe last belonged to Glasgow, when Jock Stein’s famously home-spun Celtic Bhoys beat Inter Milan in the 1967 final.

SEVENTY years of seafaring were linked yesterday as, amid fanfares and fireworks, Queen Elizabeth officially named the Queen Mary 2.

Seventy years of seafaring were linked today as, amid fanfares and fireworks, the Queen officially named the Queen Mary 2.