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"An afternoon when the Old Firm fixture reclaimed some credibility as a footballing occasion to
savour."
That's The Scotsman's verdict on yesterday's humdinger of an Old Firm game.
Rangers outdid Celtic. Football outdid the myriad levels of crap that pockmarked this fixture last
season.
Old Firm matchday number seven. Rangers v Celtic. Old friends never get tired of meeting up.
By any footballing standards today's Easter clash provides drama enough. To the winner, it looks,
goes the league title and a tilt at the Champions League.
Sadly Scotland in 2011 relies not on footballing drama alone.
Time is, once again, my enemy this Sunday morning. A quick look, then, at today's games. Including
the big one at Pittodrie.
Odd to see Rangers and Celtic meet so early in the cup, giving us our second of three Old Firm
games before 2011 is two months old.
A look at the league table shows Rangers playing catch-up but their games in hand suggest the
situation is far from desperate.
Time to ask for forgiveness? Apologise for being a doubter? Time to all hail, hail Neil Lennon?
Back in December I predicted that Lennon's reign as Celtic manager was facing a January of intense
scrutiny, a month that could shape the destiny of his managerial career:
"I wrote after the Old Firm game that Lennon was displaying a worrying habit of losing big games as
manager.
Given the brickbats being flung his way it is easy to forget that Neil Lennon has taken his Celtic
side to the top of the table.
If the number of call offs this wintery winter have given the SPL a slightly artificial look this
New Year, Celtic can still move themselves into the driving seat with an away win today.
Rangers v Celtic 2nd January 1971. 66 lives lost.
From the National Library of Scotland Digital Archive (the Herald's original coverage):
FIRST WARNING OF THE TRAGEDY . . .
DISTANT SOUNDS OF SCREAMS IN MIST
In the press box we had all been commenting on how well behaved the crowd had been and thinking
that Rangers' equaliser in the closing seconds had restored the good nature of their fans, ensuring
that there would be no subsequent trouble.
