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Trivia
- Rangers & Celtic Fans Riot At Hampden.
- Deemed by various Scottish football historians to be a significant match in the development in the Celtic-Rangers rivalry.
- Stops Celtic winning unprecedented third league & Scottish Cup double in a row.
- Heavy month for Celtic, by the end of the month 12 games had to be played this month by Celtic.
Review
Mayhem broke out at the Scottish Cup Final replay when hundreds of fans rioted at the end of the match.
It was the second time that Celtic and Rangers had finished all square. Most of the players and fans alike assumed that there would be extra time. However under the rules of the SFA, extra time was only permissible for the second replay.
When the referee blew the final whistle, a number of players remained on the pitch as if in expectation of extra time. Encouraged by this, many of the spectators also stood their ground. A rumour spread around the terraces that the result had been pre-arranged to secure a third lucrative pay day. The players were invited to leave the pitch and when the uprooting of corner flags by a groundsman made clear there would be no further play, the crowd spilled on to the pitch. They appeared to be on their way to the dressing rooms with the intention of persuading the teams to come out again. The police barred their way, and the players quietly left the stadium.
The spectators then turned their wrath on the constabulary, and a full-scale riot was soon in progress. Wooden barricading torn from the terracing was set alight on the track around the playing area. Hundreds of fans spilled onto the pitch and took their anger out by tearing down the goals, cutting up the turf and setting fire to the pay-boxes [see picture above] and stand, using whisky as fuel. Some of the rioters tore up and down the pitch with a roller. The fire brigade was summoned when pay boxes were set ablaze and police reinforcements arrived from all over the city. The rioters slashed the hoses of the firemen and abused and obstructed ambulance men.
Arrests proved almost impossible, with the police constantly having to rescue isolated and endangered colleagues. Knives, stones, bottles and fragments of wood were used as weapons. More than 100 people were hurt during the rioting, many of them police and firemen; it was reported that fifty-four policemen had been injured.
Even when the fans were finally forced from the ground, they continued to attack the police outside, and set about breaking windows in nearby houses and smashing street lamps. The riot went on for two hours or more, and damage was estimated at £800.
When the Scottish Football Association met to consider the matter the following Monday, both clubs made it clear that they did not wish to stage another replay, so the final was never decided and the cup and players medals were withheld
The association gave Queen’s Park £500 towards repairs to the stadium and ordered the two clubs to pay £150 each – a negligible sum in view of the fact that the total takings from the two matches fell not far short of £4000.
The press was scathing in its treatment of the rioters. The Pall Mall Gazette of April 10, for example, reacted: “The football craze is one of the most active deleterious influences to which the character of the masses is now subjected: and we cannot too soon set about counteracting it with the wholesome discipline of military training.”
Teams
CELTIC: –
Adams, McNair, Weir, Young, Dodds, Hay, Kivlichen, McMenemy, Quinn, Somers, Hamilton.
Scorers: – Quinn.
RANGERS: –
Rennie, Law, Craig, Gordon, Stark, Galt, Bennet, McDonald, Reid, McPherson, A. Smith.
Scorers: – Gordon.
Referee – J. B. Stark, (Airdrie).
Attendance: 60,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
- Match Pictures
Articles
Glasgow Herald 19th April 1909
The Scotsman – Monday, 19th April 1909, page 7
Scotsman Report
FOOTBALL RIOT AT GLASGOW
MOB ATTACK POLICE AND FIREMEN
OVER ONE HUNDRED CASUALTIES
GLASGOW, which holds the record for football disasters, was on Saturday afternoon and evening the scene of a riot which will take rank as one of the most disgraceful blots disfiguring the annals of the game. The finalists in the competition for the Scottish cup are the Celtic and Rangers, Glasgow clubs, which on 10th April drew with two goals each. The replay took place on Saturday on the ground of the Queen’s Park at Hampden, Mount Florida, and again the teams drew, on this occasion with one goal each. At the close of the game the spectators, incensed. at the decision not to play an extra, half-hour, and thus resolve the destiny of the cup, broke all bounds, and a riot ensued, in which the police and the mob came into prolonged conflict with the most serious consequences. The scene is described as resembling that of a battlefield , and after the long-drawn mêlée, the horrors of which were heightened by the action of the crowd, in setting fire to all the combustible material on which they could lay their hands, it was found that no fewer than sixty people wore on the official list of causalities, suffering from injuries , in some cases of a dangerous nature. This list does not include many who were attended on the field without being sent to the Infirmary or dealt with officially. The number of the unknown injured is computed at a figure equal to that of those known, which brings the final casualty list to considerably over a hundred.
A SECOND LANGSIDE
Saturday afternoon was beautifully fine and a crowd of spectators, estimated at between 60,000 and 70,000 persons, was attracted to Hampden Park, which occupies a, romantic site on the outskirts of the city, generally included by antiquarians as part of the historic battlefield of Langside . The rivalry between the teams is of the keenest nature, and the crowd, as is usual on such occasions, was divided into two camps, whose excitement rose to the highest pitch when, at the close of play the teams were level. It seems to have been generally understood that in the event of a draw on this occasion, the contest would be fought to a finish with an extra half hour’s play. In the official police report it is stated that after the referee had blown his whistle announcing the finish, the members of the Celtic team remained on the field, thus heightening the prevailing impression. The members of the Rangers’ team quitted the pitch, however, and their example was followed, shortly afterword by their opponents.
Strong in their preconceived belief, the majority of the spectators retained their positions for some time although many thousands took their departure. Meantime the Football Association had decided that the game would not be renewed, and an intimation this effect was made. Keen dissatisfaction prevailed among the crowd, and protests were heard on many hands, culminating in threats and an outbreak of disorder among the more rowdy elements. The first overt action which resulted in the lamentable scone of the day was the invasion of the playing pitch by a number of the dissatisfied onlookers, their evident intention being to proceed to the dressing-rooms, whither the players had retired. A considerable force of police were, of course, on the ground, and they naturally endeavoured to keep the crowd in order, and to induce them to leave the field peacefully . What actually first led to a collision between the police and the civilians is at present matter of the most conflicting opinion. Soon, however, the mob wore venting their rage on the police force, who were subjected to a fusillade of stones, bottles, brickbats, and every conceivable missile of which the roughs could become possessed. Overwhelmed and swept aside by superior numbers, the police rallied, and endeavoured to cope with their assailants. To this end they were forced to use their batons, and shortly they wore engaged in a hand to hand conflict. The gravity of the situation became apparent when a number of the policemen were seen to have sustained such injuries that they were rendered prostrate, and had to be carried off the field.
THE RAGE OF THE MOB.
It would be impossible adequately to describe the many cruel incidents which went to make up a riot now proceeding in almost every quarter of the field. Stricken men, fell with blood streaming from their wounds, and the rage and tumult became more intense. Many of the police were beaten and injured in the most brutal and callous fashion, and the force as a whole were the chief sufferers of the day. It was generally remarked that those of the crowd most active in the disturbance wore composed of the most degraded section of the community, the self-respecting portion having as far as possible retired when the character of the fray became apparent. Thousands, however, who would gladly have quitted the scene, now found it impossible to leave, since those outside were massed at the exits, and outlet was a matter of great difficulty.
Maddened by excitement, and relying on their overwhelming numbers, the rioters now proceeded to the extremest limits. The goal-posts wore attacked, and uprooted, the nets torn to pieces, and the woodwork around the enclosure broken down to be used as weapons, against the police. Acting with commendable patience and restraint, the police force, who were shortly reinforced by the arrival of reserves from almost every district in the city, persevered in their attempt to clear the ground. A number of mounted men were found to be of great assistance; but the mob took a. malicious delight in surrounding the horsemen, and endeavouring to force them to dismount. They beat man and horse most unmercifully, and in some cases the man was pulled to the ground. Not only had the police to persist in their own work of overcoming the mob, but, they had to protect , and rescue each other. Where a solitary policeman was trapped he was dealt with in the most outrageous manner, and it is little wonder that rumour had it that several of them had been killed.
INCENDIARY TACTICS.
The objective of the rioters, as has been indicated , was evidently the dressing-boxes of the players, but the police force were successful in repelling the attack. It was soon obvious, however, that new outlets for the prevalent passion had been found. Quantities of the broken barricading were collected, piled in a heap, and ignited. Quite a number of the crowd were in possession of bottles containing whisky, and they were actually seen to pour the fluid on the broken timber in order to aid its quicker ignition. Soon a huge bonfire was in progress, fed by fuel brought from every possible quarter. Attention was next directed to the pay boxes at the north-west entrance, and they were also soon a mass of flames. It was found necessary to summon the Fire Brigade, who arrived on the scene shortly after six o’clock. The defenceless firemen were on their arrival maltreated in similar fashion to the police, and at least one of them, John Kennedy, of the Queen’s Park Division, was seriously injured. He is suffering from a number of broken ribs, When the firemen attempted to get to work their hosepipes were seized and thrown into the flames. Others, which were brought into position, were cut and hacked at with knives. Stones, bottles, and the other available missiles were hurled, at the firemen, who, of course, were quite unable to defend themselves. Ultimately; they succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but not before very considerable damage was done.
When all the reserves had been hurried up from the district police offices, there would be about 200 constables on the field, including about 16 horsemen. The difficulty was to drive the crowds up the slopes surrounding the pitch, and the method adopted was to force them out of the grounds in batches. But long before comparative order had been restored, the casualty list had reached appalling proportions.. A number of medical men who happened to be present, set themselves devotedly to the work of attending to the injured. These gentlemen included two doctors, Jamieson, father and son, and Dr D. M’Ardle, of Stobhill Hospital. Later they were reinforced by assistance from the Victoria Infirmary, which is situated in the neighbourhood. Ambulance wagons were summoned, and, after being temporarily attended to, the sufferers wore conveyed to the Victoria Infirmary. One of the injured was attended at the Royal Infirmary, which, is several miles distant . The spectacle presented in the football pavilion and neighbourhood, where the medical work was proceeding, resembled nothing so much as what one would picture occurring in the rear of a battle. Numbers of man were being brought in in an unconscious condition, suffering from wounds in the fight, and, in some instances, from the crushing which occasionally took place.
DURATION OF THE RIOT.
It would be about ten minutes past five o’clock when the football match finished, and an idea of the prolonged character of the riot will be gained when it is stated that order was not restored till half-past seven. Gradually the police effected a clearance of the pitch and its environs, but not before the field had been reduced to a wreck. At one time a section. of the crowd tore up and-down the field with a road roller, cutting the ground badly, and committing every damage in their power. With the exception of the pavilion and the Press box, all the other erections wore damaged or wrecked by fire or assault. The police stationed outside the barricading had their hands as full as those inside. When the unruly roughs wore ultimately ejected from the field, they remained in great crowds outside, and continued the fusillade of brick-bats. Not a piece of glass escaped which could be reached by stones, and the crowd exhibited a delight in wreaking their revenge on the persons of the police and firemen, and in the destruction of the property of the club. Fortunately they wore unaware that the Football Association officials, were occupants at the moment of rooms in Somerville Place, on the opposite side of the street from the main entrance to the park These gentleman had in their possession, drawings to the amount of £1400, and were also guarding the Scottish Cup, which would have been awarded to the victor of the game. It may be mentioned that among the spectators of the day was Captain Gilmour, prospective Unionist candidate for East Renfrewshire. His duty would have been to hand the Cup to the successful team, had the game not been drawn.
Among the minor incidents of the day was the exhibition of the craze for souvenirs. The crossbar of one of the goal posts was carried from the field into Somerville Road in front of the burning pay boxes and a crowd of men and boys hacked at it with pocket knives and pocketed the chips. Among the debris littering the ground were a number of policen’s helmets, which had been lost in the day’s struggle. These were also the objective of the souvenir-hunter, being cut into strips and carried away.
PUBLIC EXCITEMENT
Needless to say, the district was in a condition of seething excitement during the course , of the unfortunate affair. The windows in Somerville Drive, which overlook the ground, wore crowded with people, who followed the progress of events with nervous dismay. Thousands of those who had attended the match left as it was concluding and were totally .unaware of what subsequently occurred. Many, however, who would otherwise have proceeded home with the utmost dispatch hung about the vicinity to watch the spectacle. Not till the evening journals issued their late editions was the city apprised of the riot. The news created in interest comparable only to that aroused by the occurrence of the great Ibrox Park disaster, at which hundreds of people were injured, and over twenty killed. The magnitude of Saturday ‘s melee was exaggerated by rumour, and it was confidently asserted that several of the injured had succumbed. Fortunately there has been in no case a fatal result, and such an eventuality is not anticipated. Only five of the injured are detained in Victoria Infirmary, although the case of the fireman, Kennedy, is probably as serious as any.
Curious to relate only one man was arrested in the course of the outbreak. He has been lodged in the Queen’s Park Police Office and will be brought up to-day on a charge of assaulting- a policeman and a soldier. It is stated that a plain clothes constable obtained the assistance of the soldier to effect the arrest. The police were, of course, practically powerless in the matter of apprehensions. Instances are recorded of rioters being taken into custody, but so savagely were the police handled that they were forced to let go their quarry.
YESTERDAY’S SCENE AND SIGHTSEERS
All day yesterday crowds of people flocked to Mount Florida to view the scene. Overnight there were posted on the ground thirty constables in case of the eventuality of the return of the mob. A force of police still guarded the ground yesterday, and the public were rigidly excluded from it. Early in the morning the services .of a number of joiners had been requisitioned, and the barricading and shattered gates set to rights as much as possible . Notwithstanding their exertions, however, the place presented, a sorry sight. All the woodwork at the Somerville Drive entrances had been burned away or remains charred, and what is left is a mass of torn, twisted, or bent galvanised iron, The enclosure itself is a litter of stones and broken bottles, and scarred patches where fire has been at work. All the public lamps in the vicinity have been smashed. Only the roughest estimate can be obtained of the amount which will be required to set the place to rights, but £800 is considered a moderate figure. Interesting, questions as to liability most arise. ‘It may be confidently expected that many different claims will be lodged.
QUESTION OF REPLAY.
The question, of a replay of the game will be discussed at a meeting of the Football Association to be hold in Glasgow this evening. There have been many speculations on the point, and the opinion is generally held that the game will now be abandoned. The officials of the Association are naturally greatly distressed at the extremely unfortunate debacle which followed Saturday’s game. It would seem by the rules of the Association that only in the case of a third draw can play be continued for an extra half-hour.
In the course of yesterday Chief-Constable Stevenson, accompanied by Superintendent Ferguson , of the Queen’s Park division, paid a visit to Victoria Infirmary to make inquiry regarding the condition of the injured. Afterwards they drove to Hampden Park, where they carried out an inspection. The Chief Constable’s clerk also visited the scene for the purposes of a report, which will in duo course be considered by the legal and other authorities, and ultimate action be decided thereupon. It is too soon yet to state whether any inquiry of a. public nature will be instituted, although it seems unlikely that such a.-menace to law and order can pass unnoticed.
The Scotsman – Tuesday, 20th April 1909
Mr Maley, the Celtic Club representative, then called. In reply to questions, he stated that there had been no arrangement between either the teams or the committees of the teams before the match to stay on and play an extra, half-hour in the event of a draw. He could not explain why it was that some of the Celtic players remained on the field after the referee blew the whistle. Asked if there was any representation made by his club to the Rangers to have the game played to a finish. Mr Maley said he had asked, one of the Rangers on Tuesday whether they would play extra.time.
The Celtic captain was next called, and was asked if he could give say explanation why some of his team remained on the field after the referee blew the whistle. He said that when he was leaving the field he met two or three of the Rangers, who asked the referee if there was any word of playing an extra half-hour. The referee replied that he had no word. Witness thereafter went straight to the pavilion. In answer to a further question, he said some of the Rangers plavers were on the field as well as the Celtic players after the whistle was blown.
Mr McKenzie, representative of the Rangers, corroborated the statement that there had been no agreement between the committees, or the teams that they should play extra time in the event of a draw. He had met Mr Malev earlier, in the week, who had asked him if he had had any request to play extra, but there was nothing more than that.
Mr Stark, also of the Rangers, said that as soon as the referee’s whistle blew he left the field. He understood that some of the Rangers remained on the field, but they were not told to do so.
PLAYERS’ HESITANCY
Mr Campbell, linesman, said he thought a good deal was being made of the fact that players remained on the field for some time after the finish of the game. As a matter of fact, the time the players remained on the field was not longer than they would remain in. any game. The referee asked him. if there was any arrangement for extra p!ay, and he replied that there was not, and before he went in he would say that at least three-fourths of the players were in front of him, and there was really very little time wasted in getting off the field.
Mr Christie said it was as a matter of fact a rule when the whistle blows every player made a rush for the pavilion, and got there as soon as possible. But on Saturday the players remained on the field a long while after the linesman and the referee were in the pavilion. They stood talking to each other, and at one time there were two Rangers players almost on the track when they were called back by somebody. They came back and spoke to somebody. Now, that took a little time.
Then they began to drop off, but all this gave the impression that there was some misunderstanding, and the spectators might certainly have been misled by the players remaining on the field. If the players did not know exactly what they were to do how could the public know? Had the players left the field immediately the whistle sounded it might, he was not going to say, it would, have prevented the riot. There had been a good many reports going about last week, and they might have been misleading, too.
The Chairman did not think they could make very much of that point after all was said and done. It might be true that there was some hesitancy. about the players leaving the field, but he was perfectly satisfied of this, that they did not remain on field with the instructions of the directors.
PETITION TO ABANDON MATCH.
Mr Maley, representing the Celtic, and Mr Mackenzie, representing the Rangers, were recalled and questioned by the Chairman as to a letter appearing in several newspapers of that morning purporting to be a petition to the Association, to abandon the match. Mr Mackenzie said that as regarded the Rangers they accepted responsibility, and the Celtic, who had also agreed, to the document, had a copy of it in their possession.
The petition was then handed up to the chairman, who, having read it, submitted the following motion;—”That to mark our disapproval of the riotous conduct of a section of the spectators at the final tie at Hampden Park on Saturday last, and to avoid the danger of any repetition the cup competition for this season be now finished, and the cup and medals be withheld.”
This was seconded
ATTlTUDE OF THE CLUBS.
Mr White, Celtic, said they might take it from him that the clubs would not replay the match, and they would be acting according to their right in refusing to play. He thought, therefore, it would, be in the best interest of football if the meeting went unanimously with the petition. . .
The chairman’s motion and Mr Gibson’s amendment were then put to ” the meeting, when 15 voted for the former and 11 for the latter a majority of 4 for the motion. The match will therefore not be replayed, and the cup and badges will be withheld for the present season.
Six classic matches: the birth of the Old Firm and the day Hampden burned
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Hugh Macdonald
Chief Sports Writer
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Monday 26 January 2015
THE violence started at 5pm. It did not abate until two hours later.
The South Side of Glasgow trembled to the noise of emergency vehicles, the groans of the injured and to the clamour of the rioters. Above all this hung a pall of smoke. Hampden was burning.
The scene, newspapers subsequently reported, resembled that of a battlefield.
It was April 17, 1909. Rangers and Celtic had drawn 1-1 in a replay after being locked at 2-2 the previous week. Fans rioted. Hundreds of supporters and police were injured. The cup was withheld.
There is debate and doubt about the causes of the mayhem. There is one certainty. It was not caused by sectarian tension but had more to do with the creation of the Old Firm, then seen as a mutually beneficial alliance to make money.
David Potter, a Celtic historian, says in his biography of Willie Maley, Celtic’s manager at the time: “Although Celtic were definitely the Catholic and Irish team of Scotland (and proud of it) Rangers had not yet involved themselves with the extreme Protestant cause.”
So what happened to produce mayhem on the south side of Glasgow?
The accepted, most plausible version is that many of the supporters expected extra time to be played in the Scottish Cup final replay. They were outraged that after paying at least another shilling to watch a cup final they would be forced to reach into their pockets again before the cup was won.
Some may have believed the Old Firm were playing for a draw, conspiring to arrange another pay day when 60,000 fans would help fill their coffers. After all, that is how they achieved their monicker. The Scottish Referee periodical of April 16, 1904, carried a cartoon with a man with a sandwich board reading: “Patronise the Old Firm, Rangers Celtic Ltd.” It is the first recorded mention of the term. But many fans on that April day merely thought they had been bilked out of extra time.
More than 120,000 fans watched the final and the replay. Willie Maley, the manager of Celtic, was often heard to say that there was money in football. There was no dissent from the Rangers side.
The riot was almost certainly sparked by a misunderstanding. Maley undoubtedly wanted extra time to be played as his team faced fixture congestion in a run for a sixth consecutive Scottish championship. He had publicly asked for extra-time but Rangers and the SFA turned that request down. The refusal, though, was not publicised as heavily as Maley’s request.
After Jimmy Quinn and Jimmy Gordon scored for Celtic and Rangers respectively, the match drifted towards a draw. It was a drab, almost anaemic affair and fans may have believed there was collusion to force another replay.
Their mood was not improved when at full-time there seemed to be indecision among both sets of players over whether to leave the field or to stay on for an extra- time that was not scheduled and, indeed, was not to be played.
Sports journalists assumed the role of war correspondents as trouble brewed and then boiled over. “Large numbers of the vast crowd could hardly realise that the play was finished for the day and they stood awaiting the turn of events,” reported the Glasgow Herald correspondent. He added: “Presently a few individuals invaded the playing pitch, apparently more in a spirit of curiosity and mischief.”
It escalated when a “half intoxicated” young man came on to the pitch and performed a dance in front of a policeman who knocked him to the ground and assaulted him.
Sensing further trouble was inevitable, Tom Maley, brother of Willie, grabbed the Scottish Cup and the receipts of £1400 and took them to safety. The SFA announced a replay for Wednesday and some of the crowd made their way to the passage leading to the dressing-rooms.
Bottles and stones were launched but the rioters were foiled in their attempt to reach the dressing-rooms. They switched their focus to the rear of the covered stand and began dismantling it. Supporters began breaking up the goalposts before barriers were torn down and set on fire.
Baton charges and mounted surges by the police proved ineffective on the Hampden slopes.
”Soon a huge bonfire was in progress, fed by fuel brought from every possible quarter,” observed one reporter.
The entrances on Somerville Drive were also set on fire. Police and firemen came under attack. They picked up the missiles thrown at them and hurled them back,.
A reporter claimed that at one time there were 200 policemen on the field, including 16 horsemen.
Most of the injuries seemed to be result of being hit with stones or by batons. But some surgeons later reported knife wounds among the police casualties.
The battle began to abate about 7pm, two hours after it had exploded. It left a scene of destruction and blood. Hampden was left battered, bruised and smoking.
The crowd eventually dispersed and casualties were taken to by wagon to the Victoria Infirmary. Souvenirs were taken from the field of battle.
“The crossbar of one of the goal posts was carried from the field into Somerville Road in front of the burning pay boxes and a crowd of men and boys hacked at it with pocket knives and pocketed the chips. Among the debris littering the ground was a number of policemen’s helmets, which had been lost in the day’s struggle. These were also the objective of the souvenir-hunter, being cut into strips and carried away,” wrote a reporter.
“Curious to relate only one man was arrested in the course of the outbreak,” a newspaper reported on the Monday. “He has been lodged in the Queen’s Park Police Office and will be brought up to-day on a charge of assaulting a policeman and a soldier. It is stated that a plain clothes constable obtained the assistance of the soldier to effect the arrest. The police were, of course, practically powerless in the matter of apprehensions. Instances are recorded of rioters being taken into custody, but so savagely were the police handled that they were forced to let go their quarry.”
There were, in fact, other arrests. The charges against two men accused of cutting up firemen’s hoses were found not proven. The alleged attacker walked free, too. There was no retribution in court for the police.
It is impossible to record just how many were injured. More than 100 were thought to have been treated at the Victoria Infirmary but the records are sketchy. Medical staff placed the taking of notes secondary to staunching wounds. Similarly, many of those treated at the ground staggered home without being officially recorded as hurt.
As darkness settled on the battlefield , the scene was extraordinary. “All over the pitch lay portions of the goalposts, netting and barriers, while at the exits and entrances the charred woodwork and twisted turnstiles showed that the fire brigade had not come too soon,” reported the Glasgow Herald.
The inquest came quickly. On the Monday after the final, members of the Scottish Football Association strode into the offices at 6 Carlton Place, Glasgow, for an emergency meeting.
That day’s newspapers had expressed outrage. The Glasgow Herald would state: “Saturday was a black day in the history of football in Glasgow. The riot pales into insignificance every other happening, here and elsewhere on the football field. To equal it one must go back to the days of the Bread Riots in 1848.”
The inquiry made little progress as to the cause. Both James Hay, the Celtic captain, and James Stark, his Rangers counterpart, said they had no instructions from their officials as to the playing of extra time.
The SFA, though, had to decide on the playing for the Scottish Cup. The Old Firm stood together. A joint statement for the clubs said: “Although it was mooted during the week that extra time might be played in the event of a draw, it was found that the cup competition rules prevented this. On account of the regrettable occurrences of Saturday, both clubs agree to petition the association that the final tie be abandoned.”
There was proposal made to replay the tie outside Glasgow but both clubs were adamant. One side would scratch rather than play another game.
The SFA came to a decision. The statement read: “To mark the association’s disapproval of the riotous conduct of a section of the supporters at Hampden Park, and to avoid a repetition, the cup competition for this season be finished and the cup and medals withheld.”
The association gave Queen’s Park £500 towards repairs to the stadium and ordered the two clubs to pay £150 as a penalty.
The Old Firm settled that account.