While our Champions League clashes in 2006 automatically spring to mind whenever ourselves and Real Madrid are mentioned in the same sentence, the history between the sides stretches much further.
You have to go back past our double-winning sides of the 1990s and 1970s, and indeed England's 1966 World Cup triumph, to get to the first encounter between the teams, when Madrid were the biggest team in Europe and had won the European Cup in each of the first five seasons it had been staged.
During the summer of 1962 the reigning Spanish champions announced that they would be undertaking a tour of Great Britain later in the year, which turned out to be games against Celtic on September 10 and ourselves three days later.