Forty years on from their European Cup victory, Glasgow (or half of it anyway) is celebrating Celtic's "Lisbon Lions". The Studio has drawn the '66/67 squad, with myself contributing Stevie Chalmers, Jim Craig, Charlie Gallagher and John "Yogi" Hughes. You can browse the whole lot here after clicking on "SPORT".



Whenever we do something like this, we try and balance things out. We knocked our pans in when hanging the exhibition in Edinburgh last year to ensure that for every Celtic face there was a Rangers, that they were equally sized, that none where hung higher or lower than the other and that no one artist was overly associated with either team. Didn't matter; someone still wrote in the visitor's book we were "obviously a bunch of Tims" (while others complained there weren't enough faces from Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen etcetera ad nausiem). In other words, you can't win; those who wish to see a bias will always see it. We've drawn these people because a significant anniversary of their significant achievement happens to fall next month... Had Rangers played that day (or the Jags for that matter) we wouldn't have used any green ink last week. As I've explained before- at length- we don't restrict ourselves to people we like (or hate). If I did then in all the things a caricaturist does best (commemorate, examine, or satirise a wide range of subjects, and thereby entertain and provoke his viewer) I'd fail. Who cares who I do or don't follow? Why alienate those who happen to not share my interests?