Scottish football

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gonetomorrow said:
I can honestly say I am not remotely interested in the match.

And yet, as a kid in the early sixties, it was a thrill to be taken to an Old Firm game and stand in a crowd of 100,000.
Frequently, one was literally swept off one's feet by the pressure of the crowd.

But there were great players on show. Johnstone, Henderson, Caldow, Lennox etc.
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You forgot Wee Jim Baxter.He was one of the first Rangers players to break the unwritten rules and protocol at Ibrox, by socializing with Celtic players on his free time.
 
Cork Evertonian said:
Does the Edinburgh derby have the same sectarian undercurrent as the one in Glasgow?I always saw Hibs as a mini Celtic and Hearts as a mini Rangers!
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Nope. It's a bitter relationship but there's no religious nonsense at all.
Back in the 70s the boot boys used to wave tricolours and union flags like a mini old firm but it wasn't very convincing.
The main bone of contention is that Hearts tried to take over a cash-strapped Hibs in 1990.
 
I think it was on this thread where i was telling the story about the dude who showed up for the school sports day in a Rangers shirt.Well that person was me.It goes back to a match or shoot magazine annual from the early 90's (christmas 1993 i think it was) and there was an article on Rangers league title win.I just preferred the Rangers shirt.That 1996/1997 McEwans Lager Rangers shirt is for me the classic Rangers shirt.I just found Celtics green and white hoops to be ugly.The Celtic shirt just looked like puke in my eyes.It resembled something that you'd wipe the dinner table with.So irrespective of all the strings attached with becoming a Rangers fan i went with them because they had a nicer shirt.Being a lapsed Irish catholic and supporting Rangers eh.It's a bit like a Jewish person declaring that they are gay in Nazi Germany.But hey at least they play in Blue.
 
Cork Evertonian said:
You forgot Wee Jim Baxter.He was one of the first Rangers players to break the unwritten rules and protocol at Ibrox, by socializing with Celtic players on his free time.
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Jim would've socialised with the Pope if there was alcohol involved
Lived life to the full and what a player he was.
Dare I say he was admired from both camps
 
Scottish football fans are horrible bastards,

was away this weekend and had some freaky rangers fan going absolutely mental threatening to kill some of our group cause they said "Hail Hail"

Scum
 
DannyEvo said:
Scottish football fans are horrible bastards,

was away this weekend and had some freaky rangers fan going absolutely mental threatening to kill some of our group cause they said "Hail Hail"

Scum
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Woah! Not alll Scottish fans act like that, are all English fans complete erse holes just because some of them feel compelled to throw plastic chairs around almost every time they go abroad?
 

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