The Blizzard: Rangers 2-2 Celtic, 1987
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 28 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
There are some football derbies that transcend the ninety minutes on the pitch and the few annual fixtures, and instead become knitted into the fabric of the societies they inhabit. The Old Firm Derby is one of the definitive derbies in world football and we’re heading to the 1987 tie between Rangers and Celtic for today’s episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard.
We’re joined by Guardian sports writer Scott Murray to discuss a truly incendiary affair - Graeme Souness’ Rangers had suffered a turgid start to the league campaign and hadn’t won the title for nine seasons, while Billy McNeil’s Celtic were flying. The two sides met in front of 44,000 people at Ibrox for one of the craziest matches you’ll ever see. Four goals, red cards, fights and a retrospective police enquiry— this game had it all...
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| 0:00.0 | The 6 o'clock news from the BBC with Nicholas Whittle and Philip Hayton. |
| 0:06.0 | Good evening, the headlines at 6 o'clock, at least 13 dead, damage running into millions |
| 0:14.1 | of pounds. The chaos on the day a storm battered southern Britain without warning. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the greatest games on Football Rumble Daily in association |
| 0:24.6 | with the Blizzard. My name is Marcus Jonathan Wilson. It's an opposite me, lovely to have |
| 0:28.8 | you here Jonathan as always. Thank you very much. And with us is Scott Murray journalist and |
| 0:33.6 | contributors of the Guardian among others and writer of the title, the history of the old |
| 0:37.7 | first division in England Scott pleasure to have you with us. Yeah, hello thanks for having me. |
| 0:41.6 | Scott, you have chosen an old firm Derby from 1987. Some people may call it the old firm Derby |
| 0:49.2 | from certainly from those times. Rangers 2, Celtic 2, it was explosive stuff. It was described |
| 0:58.4 | as a great shame by some people. So famous, infamous, all those kind of words can be used. |
| 1:03.2 | Why have you gone for this one? Because I think it's been slightly misrepresented in time. |
| 1:11.8 | I mean, it was obviously a ludicrous rami. That's spreading it mildly. The reputation it's got is |
| 1:21.1 | fair enough on most respects, but it was also just a really entertaining football match as well. |
| 1:27.4 | And it was good fun. And maybe I'm a little bit, my view of the match is colored a bit by the fact |
| 1:35.2 | that I was watching it in the south of England. And this was a time where you couldn't get Scottish |
| 1:43.2 | football and TV. In fact, there wasn't even English football hardly any on the, on the TV at that |
| 1:47.5 | point. So when this kicked off, it kind of had to, you know, I had to get on the phone to my uncle |
| 1:53.3 | in Avey Moore and say, look, Andrew, will you tape Scott, Scott, have Scott sport tomorrow and |
| 1:59.3 | post it down in a couple of weeks later, I'd get this sort of grainy VHS tape. You knew the score, |
| 2:04.1 | though, by the end of the year. Yeah, yeah. We'd, uh, news had reached you. We'd worked at the |
| 2:08.6 | score. Yeah. But well, this is the thing because there was like, you know, a little clip of it on |
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