Old Firm

[lovejoy]

I have read a lot in the media about what a stain on society this game is and how the scenes at Celtic Park were those that " none of us want to see". Clearly nobody should go to a match and feel physically threatened but am I alone in watching a match like that and having a tingle of excitement in my veins that football still matters. Surely its better than the pre-packaged soul-less sky premiership nonsense 90% of the English top flight games are?

Also anyone who what Fat Ally said to the Ginger at full time?

[Monty]

Excitement? Fine. Tingle in veins? Fine. Football mattering? Fine.

Sectarian-based, society dividing, hatred fomenting, violence inducing, safety preventing nastiness? I could live without it.

[AV82EC]

I'm sorry but the sooner the two bigot brothers disappear up each others arseholes the better for everyone concerned.

[Lambert and Payne]

I have read a lot in the media about what a stain on society this game is and how the scenes at Celtic Park were those that " none of us want to see". Clearly nobody should go to a match and feel physically threatened but am I alone in watching a match like that and having a tingle of excitement in my veins that football still matters. Surely its better than the pre-packaged soul-less sky premiership nonsense 90% of the English top flight games are?

Also anyone who what Fat Ally said to the Ginger at full time?

I think the old firms are brilliant fun to watch, the passion, the boiling over of it all! Its unreal, plus Rangers are my second club and all that..
I think the ginger should have laughed it off, he's just won a very important game, id walk away laughing knowing i had one up on them..
Also the police moaning about the amount of calls relating to the game made and how people drinking is the problem, theyv had old firms on nights before and had the same problem, they dont learn their lesson thats their problem

[The Man With A Stick]

Some Scottish minister or whoever has suggested banning the Old Firm games from television.  That'd do the SPL TV rights the power of good, people will just be queuing up to watch Motherwell v Falkirk or whatever.

[john e]

Villa v Blues, Man City v Man utd, Spurs v Arsenal, Mansfield v Chesterfield, Bristol City v Bristol Rovers, Ipswich v Norwich all have one thing in common, they are footballing rivalries which sometimes go to far

 the Celtic v Rangers rivalry has nothing to do with football, its not a football derby game

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Celtic and Rangers are two piss poor teams, they'd strugle in the English Championship.

Their football is irrelevant.

[Chris Jameson]

Celtic and Rangers are two piss poor teams, they'd strugle in the English Championship.

They already are, Think they are called Middlesbrough.

[Dave Javu]

I don't know the answer, and just out of interest, how many (of the Christian) players from each team currently follow the "wrong" sect?

[Concrete John]

I know a few Celtic and Rangers fans, and they do see the rivalry as mainly sporting, even if it does have that added element.  It's mainly to those outside of Glasgow that it's 'nothing to do with football'.

Personally I love the games.  Two committed sides where the two sets of players, coaches and fans just plain don't like each other!

[olaftab]

I don't know the answer, and just out of interest, how many (of the Christian) players from each team currently follow the "wrong" sect?

deej the religious divide is very  interesting here. Tradition would have it that this was a clash between Catholics and Protestants both of Christian base (not sure how many players on the pitch belong to either these days) however two Muslims got sent off. So it's the Muslims ....again

[Dave Javu]

Shia or Sunni? (winky back)

[The Left Side]

Excitement? Fine. Tingle in veins? Fine. Football mattering? Fine.

Sectarian-based, society dividing, hatred fomenting, violence inducing, safety preventing nastiness? I could live without it.

I agree 100%

[WikiVilla]

I think the old firm games are great

Apparently even domestic violence goes off the scale on the Old Firm weekends in Glasgow

[olaftab]

Shia or Sunni? (winky back)

Burn them both I say being a Wahabi myself!