| Match Pictures | Matches: 1924 – 1925 |
Trivia
- The stormy weather makes this the match the least well attended for the Old Firm.
- The Glasgow Herald editorial ponders the question of the extension of Australia’s “Whites Only” policy to include Europeans that are not British. LINK
Review
Teams
RANGERS: Robb, Manderson, McCandless, Meiklejohn, Dixon, Muirhead, Archibald, Cunningham, Henderson, Cairns, Morton
Scorers: Henderson (2), Cunningham, McCandless
CELTIC: Shevlin, W.McStay, Hilley, Wilson, J. McStay, McFarlane , Connolly, Corrigan, Fleming, A. Thomson, McLean
Scorer: Fleming
Referee: T Small
Attendance: 20,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Jan 2, 1925
The big event of the day was the annual Rangers-Celtic encounter, and in the long intercourse between these great Glasgow rivals yesterday’s meeting will go down as one of the outstanding events in a series of notable contests in Scottish football. Celtic who have had what is known as a lean time in a playing and financial sense since the war, have made praiseworthy efforts, with varying success or luck, during the current season to recover, and yesterday’s encounter against their old rivals at Ibrox Park was reasonably expected in large measure to buttress their financial position. On the contrary the attendance -20,000-was the smallest ever Rangers and Celtic attracted in a competition match, and ill-luck further dogged the Parkhead club in a playing sense. The conditions made it impossible for the convalescent Gallagher, Celtic’s match-winning forward to strip; the lost the toss, and were set to face a gale and drenching sleet and hail, and the circumstances were all too much for a team who, without these disadvantages, had not the skill and experience, nor the physique of the powerful Ibrox representation. Rangers played brilliant football; the return of their captain, Cairns, restored the attack to its fullest effectiveness, and after establishing a three goal lead in the first half the Ibrox side put the issue beyond doubt when they scored a fourth goal early in the second half against a blizzard. Celtic later got their only goal and were beaten 4-1, the same score as in the Glasgow Cup-tie early in the season, but in general play and in the fine spirit in which they faced misfortune yesterday the were incomparably a better team than in the Cup-tie. It was a tribute to both teams that the rain saturated spectators stood out the match till the end, and the game will rank as one of the best sporting contests and finest football displays ever witnessed between the two great rivals.