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Libero 066 | Celtic And Rangers On The Brink... Is The Old Firm Dying?

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The rule of thumb in Scottish football is that if one Old Firm club is doing badly, then the other is doing well. So what happens when both Celtic and Rangers are both in troubled times concurrently? With Brendan Rogers axed as Celtic boss shortly after the departure of Russell Martin from Ibrox, a Hearts team powered by the analytics of Tony Bloom are top of the Scottish Premiership. It seems there has never been a more likely time for an outsider to end Glasgow's hegemony north of Hadrian's Wall, but how have the Old Firm clubs found themselves in such a perilous position? When did buying 'Championship jobbers' stop being good enough? Has the obsession with beating each other hindered their ability to succeed in Europe? Much to discuss for Jack Pitt-Brooke, John Brewin and Rory Smith. P1: (03:56) P2: (32:36) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things,

0:04.6

as Alex McLeesh commiserated with Martin O'Neill after the 2002 Scottish Cup final.

0:09.8

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0:23.6

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0:27.8

If you're out trick or treating this weekend, as I'm sure you will be.

0:30.6

I don't know what fancy dress you'll be wearing, but you can tell every house you knock on,

0:35.9

you can say to the people who hand candy to you or your

0:39.2

children have you listened to the liberal podcast it will go down really really well

0:47.8

Rory what are you dressing up as for Halloween I'm not dressing up but we we've we don't quite

0:53.2

bid on decorations.

1:01.0

Because we live on like a present and we get a lot of kids because there's a lot of young families around and stuff.

1:02.6

So it's quite a big thing Halloween.

1:07.1

And I feel as though the decorations generally are a little bit cutesy.

1:11.8

So I've set myself the target and Ed, my little boy, is on board with this.

1:16.3

We want to make the decoration sufficiently scary that at least one group of kids won't come near the house. Pride and joy at the moment is a banshee. I've bought an electronic banshee

1:21.7

that we're going to hang in a tree. I didn't realize this, but it goes, help me! Help me! Which I think for a four-year-old, it's probably quite scary. That's pretty good. John, what are you dressing up as for Halloween? Well, I've got my Venom black metal t-shirt on. And that's about it, actually. Hopefully, I might have found something better to do on Friday night, so I don't have to sort of pretend the lights on or turn the lights off and high from kids.

1:45.2

Actually, it's quite respectful. The trickle treating that goes on around here is actually quite

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