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In the 1966-67 season, Celtic Football Club won five trophies. Five! The Scottish First Division. The Scottish Cup. The Scottish League Cup. Big Cup. The Glasgow Cup. They even registered a couple of notable friendly wins, 4-1 over English champions-elect Manchester United and 1-0 against the new Spanish champs Real Madrid. A quintuple, though! A decent haul. The Fiver dredges up this memory today merely to remind Pep Guardiola that, y’know, these things can be done. “Come on, that isn’t real!” he had scoffed a couple of months back, when asked whether his Manchester City side could win all three domestic trophies plus the big European pot this season. “That is not going to happen! Of course not!” And he’s been proved correct.

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