CELTIC fans can celebrate the club's greatest win with the publication of unique pictures that were lost to a generation.

Two booklets produced to celebrate the football team's achievements in 1967, which culminated in the winning of the European Cup, have been published for the first time in 40 years after a chance find at an auction house in Glasgow's West End.

Now behind-the-scenes portraits of the Lisbon Lions can be seen again all thanks to a Queen's Park fan.

Frank Creighton, originally from Mount Florida, was aged just eight when Celtic skipper Billy McNeill became the first captain of a British club to lift the trophy, when the team beat Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon, on May 25, 1967.

As a child, he was thrilled to see a Scottish club hit the heights of European football and one of his treasured possessions was a souvenir copy of Celtic: Year of Triumph, produced by publishers DC Thomson.

Around 10 years ago he was in Otago Street auction house and found the magazine along with another from the era, Into Europe as Champions.

He said: "When I saw the magazines I had to have them they remind me of being a boy and seeing the game on TV."

Frank has since moved to South Uist in the Western Isles and has his own publishing firm, Hebridean Images.

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of that glorious year, he contacted the Dundee-based publisher to strike a deal to reprint the magazines.

He said: "Those aged 40 or younger will never have seen these pictures and a lot of fans I know would love to see them It's a real piece of history."

The stories and photos include Jinky' Johnstone, with his dog Shane at home and there are family snaps of the McNeills.

Billy - captain of the Lisbon Lions whose numbers have now been depleted with the deaths of Bobby Murdoch, Ronnie Simpson and Johnstone - was today signing copies of the magazines at the reprint launch in WH Smith's Argyle Street store in Glasgow.

He said: "These books brought back a lot of memories for us."

Jimmy Johnstone with has a chinwag with dog Shane	Big shot Tommy Gemmell let them have both barrels in magazine article	Suds law as midfield maestro Bertie ovesees bathtime in the Auld household	Bobby Lennox didn't need a head start on opponents

Goal hero Stevie Chalmers was also focused off the park

Big Jock Stein brings the European Cup to Celtic Park following the momentous victory

Little wonder Jinky bemoans his lack of height

Bobby Lennox on the wing always had speed to spare