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Trivia
- Quotes: "There's as much chance of [Frank] McAvennie moving as there is of Rangers beating us 5-1 tomorrow." Billy McNeil, Celtic (Manager) commenting of reports that Macca was heading back to London. We did lose 5-1 the next day, and Macca left soon after!
- Tommy Burns appeared on Scotsport the next day to discuss the game and apologise to the Celtic supporters.
- This was Celtic's worst result in an Old Firm game since August 1960.
- On the same day Celtic defeated Rangers 2-1 at Celtic Park in a Reserve League match. The Celtic team was Rough, Traynor, Elliot, McNally, Baillie, Balmer, Mathie, Murray, McGhee, Fulton, Archdeacon. Subs Creaney (Rough) 45, McCarrison (Mathie) 78. The Celtic scorers were Murray and Fulton. Lex Baillie played the second half in goals for Celtic after Alan Rough was taken to hospital following a challenge from Scott Nisbet. The crowd for the match was 4000.
Review
"I was in the Celtic side beaten 5-1 at Ibrox (in August 1988), you just go home and shut the door for a week. Well, apart from Frank McAvennie but he operated under different rules from the rest of us."
Billy Stark
Teams
Rangers:
Wood, Brown, Stevens, Gough, Butcher, Wilkins, I Ferguson, Durrant, McCoist, Drinkell, Subs: Souness, Cooper
Scorers:
Celtic:
Andrews, Morris, Rogan, Aitken, McCarthy, Grant, Stark (Miller), McStay, McAvennie, Walker, Burns (Whyte)
Scorer: McAvennie
Referee:
Attendance:
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