Old Firm Cup Drop Out: Celtic Versus Rangers Feet Brawl

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Sweets Game

There is no such factor being an unadventurous Old Firm match. That much holds true, but this latest meeting - the 5th of year, with another two still in the future - had more drama than the most enthusiastic thrill-seeker might imagine. Farmville had everything.

Old Firm Cup Drop Out: Celtic Versus Rangers Feet Brawl

The 2 preceding Old Firm fittings [a 3- league win for Celtic on 20 Feb at Celtic Park along with a 2-2 cup fixture on 6 Feb at Ibrox] prior to that one have been marked by bad fouls, bad tempers, and bad bloodstream, which turned in the signing, by Rangers, of El-Hadji Diouf, on loan, from Blackburn Rovers. Diouf is really a Celtic hate-figure due to an awful incident in 2003 when Diouf, a Liverpool player, spat at Celtic fans in a Uefa Cup tie at Celtic Park.

Quite why Rangers felt Diouf will be a sensible signing escapes your author and almost everyone else with a passing curiosity about Scottish football. It clearly riled the Celtic management and gamers because as soon as Diouf required the pitch for his Rangers debut within the original cup tie in Feb, he was specific for that "wind-up" - also known as verbal abuse - in the Celtic gamers, but many particularly from Scott Brown, a person very few rivals want, within their face.

A lot of same adopted within the league game, with Rangers giving just like they were given, but a minimum of matters in individuals games were limited towards the pitch.

However, it is a free-for-all within this the 3rd game between your sides in quick succession and also the fifth of year to date.

Tempers were strained from kick-off. The takes up were flying at the end of and reckless. The verbals were all around the pitch and all around the technical areas - player to player, manager to manager, player to manager, manager to player. The entire 1 hour 30 minutes was like this. There have been even barging and scuffling because the gamers and management teams went lower the tunnel at half-time.

The referee, Calum Murray, was the most popular guy around the pitch, booking 3 Celtic gamers... Majstorovic (33mins), Brown (42), and Wilson (90+1) and 7 Rangers gamers...Whittaker (28), Diouf (37), Fleck (44), Bougherra (57), Davis (76), Davis (76), and Hutton (90+5) plus ordering 3 of individuals off for any second yellow card... Whittaker (36), Bougherra (90+4), and Diouf (publish match).

It had been in the final whistle this questionable game upped its very own ante. As Neil Lennon made his method to shake hands with Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist, something was stated and Lennon's smile switched to some snarl in just 2 seconds. We've since learned that McCoist had made the decision to "advise" Lennon there do not be any more cases of Lennon or his gamers submitting the Rangers gamers, particularly Diouf, to help "extreme verbal abuse". Lennon, not remarkably required exception for this "advice" and stated to McCoist when Rangers had not signed Diouf to begin with", then none of this is happening.

So strongly were McCoist and Lennon making their points they needed to be physically restrained and separated by authorities, gamers, assistants, and police.

Obviously, a dim look at the proceedings continues to be taken through the Police and also the Scottish Government, using the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police openly with an abandonment from the fixture altogether as the First Minister has known as for any summit between your two clubs, law enforcement and government ministers.

As though that isn't been enough fun, we have got the Scottish League Cup Final at Hampden Park on Sunday, 20 March 2011. Very little time for you to heal the rifts.

Scott Brown and El-Hadji Diouf really are a lengthy way from being pals which feud looks sweet to carry on for some time yet. Neil Lennon is incorporated in the papers saying he and Ally McCoist have settled their variations, but we are not hearing much from McCoist about them.

Heady stuff.

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