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Trivia

• This was Celtic's first ever Premier League game.
• Rangers unfurled their League flag before the game but only after a storm of protest from Celtic fans and authorities who feared trouble at the game.
• Willie Waddell's wife Hilda unfurls the flag.
• At half time Glen Daly hosts a fun version of It's a Knockout with Rangers and Celtic fans. Trouble broke out at the Rangers end of the ground and police had to move in to trestore order.
• 84 arrests made during the game in which warm weather and alchohol is said to have been a troublesome mixture.
• The attendance of 69,594 was a Premier League record which held until 1988 when 72,000 watched Celtic v Dundee.

Review

Celtic did not deserve to lose this game and only slack defending cost them. At 1-0 they were in control and should have killed the game and even when they went 2-1 down they rallied at the end and had chances to equalise. Danny McGrain was in truly inspirational form.

With five minutes left sub Andy Ritchie sent a powerful header at goal and the ball stuck between McCloy's legs. It was that kind of day.

Teams

Rangers: McCloy, Forsyth, Greig, Jardine (O'Hara), Jackson, McKean, McLean, MacDonald, Stein, Johnstone, Young Sub: Miller

Celtic: Latchford, McGrain, MacDonald, P McCluskey, Lynch, McNamara (Connelly), Dalglish, Edvaldsson, Callaghan, Wilson, Lennox (Ritchie)

Rangers scorers : Johnstone (56), Young (68)

Celtic scorer : Dalglish (42)

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Attendance: 69,594

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