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More Old Firm Madness

March 3, 2011 — by Sean

El Hadji Diouf takes his greivences to the sidelines

A fifth round replay for the Scottish cup devolved into another in a long string of violent contests between Glasgow sides Celtic and Rangers. This time around it was Rangers who came off looking uglier, not only losing but having three red cards issued against (Steven Whittaker, Madjid Bougherra, El-Hadji Diouf).

After a scuffle in the tunnel during halftime, Celtic’s manager Neil Lennon and Ally McCoist, the Rangers assistant manager, also nearly came to blows and had to be separated by support staff.

Still, nothing like the good ol’ days, as this clip from the 1980 cup final between the sides reminds us. Seeing as it wasn’t necessary for mounted riot police to hold back riotous pitch invaders, we can call yesterday’s outing a success!