CELTIC CRUISED INTO the Scottish League Cup final with a comfortable 2-0 victory over rivals Rangers in the first Old Firm derby in nearly three years.
It wasn’t the record rout that many predicted before the match, but it was an entirely uneven contest with the Scottish Premiership leaders lauding it over their city rivals to claim victory in the 400th competitive outing of one of the world’s fiercest rivalries.
Leigh Griffiths headed home the opener after just 10 minutes and Kris Commons, one of four Celtic players in the starting 11 who had featured in the fixture previously, rifled home a second in the 31st minute as the Hoops threatened to run riot.
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The Celtic supporters smelt blood but their side failed to go for the jugular as they seemed content to play within themselves in the second half as Rangers failed to test ‘keeper Craig Gordon.
Celtic will now face Dundee United in the final on March 15 while Rangers, who are still plagued by financial problems and boardroom battles, will refocus their attention on trying to catch Hearts in the race for the Scottish Championship.
The match at Hampden was the first meeting of the Old Firm since April 2012 with Rangers subsequently forced to start life again in the country’s bottom tier following liquidation in June 2012.
In fairness first time playing celtic this fledgling club look a bit in awe of the mighty celts.
stokes has some head of hair on him.
Hail hail the Celts are here :)
Always good to see a new lower league club get this far, anyone know what part of Scotland these boyos hail from?
I don’t know, Sevco doesn’t show up on google maps!
Awful game,two crap sides,Scottish football is a joke.
we can talk, if Scottish footballs a joke what about Irish football
Who could play football on that pitch? I doubt a Madrid Barca game would of been much better..
davie nolan is a joke. go
“Two sets of fat men singing about the Famine” Frankie Boyle
Brilliant.
What a screamer by Commons, 1 touch to get it out of his feet and bam, hotshot hamish would be proud of that strike !
Disgraceful the trouble that goes on in these old firm games, a sausage got battered in the chipper van at half time
Would have expected Celtic to beat some struggling lower division team by more than 2 goals,
Good win but hard to get excited bout Scottish football in fairness. ..
Was there any trouble at the game?
Why do you ask ?
Because before I moved to Canada I was a regular at park head and unfortunately for the old firm there was often trouble. I’m hoping all that nonsense is left behind so it would be good to know what the crowd were like.
There’s trouble at every football game.. Look at Rovers and Bohs in Dublin. English Football has more trouble than Celtic and Rangers and we don’t hear the half of it because Sky don’t like reporting on it
I think this story is based on a falsehood . Anyone who knows
anything about Scottish Football knows that Rangers were liquidated
in 2012 and this current shower are a new club and hence this was the
first time they played .
It may be the first time these two entities have played but it is not the first time these sets of fans have met. I also agree that there is trouble in lots of leagues. I can only speak for SPL, LOI and Irish internationals as these were the games I attended, but the most trouble I ever saw was in Glasgow. Although when any Dub team came the the Cross it was tense but never anything like the hate in an Old Firm.
Michael, I don’t understand your comment particularly towards the end .
Of course one set of supporters is the same , Celtic have existed for
127 yrs and are proud of that . Of course the fans of the dead club and
those of the newco contain many elements and members of hooligans
who shouldn’t be allowed near any match . The reason why is because
they are the people . Strathclyde police made great play of ensuring all
police on duty would know the words of the banned songs of both sets
of fans . The Sevco fans sang en masse The famine song , Knee deep in
Fenian Blood , F.ck The Pope . What did the head of police operations say
” the vast majority of supporters on both sides behaved implacably”
Is it any wonder a small number of Celtic fans do wrong .