HeraldLoop

Rangers

Organization · 109 articles
Share
2 sourcesBBCSky Sports
14h ago

Celtic, Rangers appeal stadium closure sanction after fan trouble

Celtic and Rangers have appealed against the Scottish FA sanction ordering the two clubs to play their next home Scottish Cup fixture behind closed doors.

Share
2 sources20 Sept

'It might be time to wrap it up' - O'Neill ponders Celtic future after defeat

2 sources14 Sept

McGregor laments Celtic's 'team of individuals'

All coverage

page 1 of 6

Rangers and Ryan Naderi finish off Celtic’s horror week with Old Firm victory

If ever a stadium can be rocked by silence, this was the moment. With no visiting fans allowed at any of this season’s Glasgow derbies, Ryan Naderi’s winning goal was met with nothing but the banging of fists of the clear plastic of the Rangers bench, and the shouting of the broadcast commentators. A screaming void of apathy and atrophy, the sound of a beckoning abyss, of a title race blowing open and a team slowly breaking apart. That Rangers were unable to celebrate this triumph with their fans in the stadium was, of course, a source of lament, as well as a measure of just how ugly this fixture has become over the years. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jonathan Liew at Celtic Park20 Sept
  • critical toward Celtic · 98%

Football Daily | Spying some tasty match-ups, from Wrexham v Saints to desperation derbies

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Before an engorged international break we have a gala weekend of derby games. Some of them are familiar, others rather longer in the waiting, others spurious in their definition but shoehorned in for tea-timely email purposes. Thursday night’s Bigger Vase defeat by Ferencvaros was not a great result for angry Martin O’Neill’s Celtic, coming three days before the Old Firm/Glasgow derby (delete as applicable according to adherence to Scottish company law), and four days after losing to Rangers in the Old Firm/Glasgow derby. In Spain, Atlético v Real Madrid will see Diego Simeone and José Mourinho bring the morbo ruckus to the sidelines. A football match might actually break out, though that cannot be guaranteed when considering the managers involved. I also met Ludek Miklosko ( yesterday’s Football Daily letters ), but in a way that now seems rather surreal. When I was a kid, my junior Sunday league team trained at West Ham’s Chadwell Heath training ground every Friday night in their sports hall. In them days, anyone could drive into the car park and walk through the gym to the hall – and on one particular night my dad dropped me and a teammate off and told us he’d be back in an hour. When we walked into the hall we were more than surprised to find that our team had cancelled training, with nobody else turning up, and half of the West Ham first team were in there doing drills instead. With nowhere to go (and no mobile phones) they invited us to join in. As an Arsenal fan, I didn’t really care much for West Ham players, but their goalkeeper was a lovely man and spent most of the hour playing with us and encouraging shots. I never forgot Ludo after that night” – Nicholas Larkin. I was struck by the sentiment of Christopher D’Cruz that it is not possible to dig yourself out of a hole ( yesterday’s letters ). OK, I know it is not exactly the same, but it is still a similar principle … they have clearly never heard of Baron Munchhausen pulling himself out of a swamp with his own hair” – Andriy Zavgorodniy. Christopher has clearly never had to dig a trench, moat, ditch, etc. Sure, there has to be some downward digging to start, but then most of the work is going sideways. Similarly, if you’re stuck at the bottom of a steep-sided hole with nothing but a shovel then the move to get oneself out is digging a gentler slope back to ground-level. Or, to quote the intellectual leviathan, Homer J Simpson: dig up, stupid!” – James Humphries (and 1,056 others). Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•John Brewin18 Sept