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The infamous final which ended up being a watershed moment for football in Scotland. Celtic won the game and the fans entered the pitch to celebrate a victory, with Rangers fans then storming on for a fight. Fights galore, with the police trying to keep fans apart. As the match was live, the scenes were nothing less than a disaster for the game publicly.

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• After this game alcohol was barred from matches in Scotland and to date still not reinstated.

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Celtic: Latchford, Sneddon, McGrain, Aitken, Conroy, MacLeod, Provan, Doyle, McCluskey, Burns, McGarvey



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Lubolu (from KStreet forum)
I was about seventeen at the time and that game was the first one that me and my mates had brought a big carry-out to. Turned out it was the last game as well. Remember standing near the back of the celtic end on a sweltering hot day and that the game itself was pretty pony if not the result. Seem to remember that we had a few injuries before that game and Davie Provan playing a more midfield role that day than his usual wing role. Mick Conroy was drafted into an emergency centre half position and the boy had a great game.

When the final whistle went our end went predictably ballistic and I remember the hun hordes scrambling for the exits. Some of the Celtic players had come up to our end to join the celebrations and a few young boys ran on to the track more in excitement than anything else. At this stage I would say there was no more than 5 or 6000 huns left in the stadium. These celebrations seemed to surprisingly antagonise the hun stragglers and before you knew it the Battle of Hampden had begun. It seemed funny at first first to see the different charges by each support but it quickly dawned on us that this was becoming serious as all hell broke out. I remember some lunatic behind us launched a half full Buckie bottle that skimmed off my shoulder and the impression that we should get out of there quick. Trying to negotiate a safe passage home that night was tricky as the huns were out for blood but we managed to get there in one piece.

The press reaction and the sanctions handed down to both clubs were sadly predictable in the ' both sides are as bad as each other' kind of way we see to this day.

Letthepeoplesing (from JungleBhoys & KStreet forum)
I was at the game too and think it was my first Old Firm game but not first Cup Final.

These were the days when drink was allowed and my da happily swigged from a bottle of whisky throughout the match.

I have a clear recollection of the game. At the final whistle Danny McGrain led the players towards the fans at the Celtic end near the corner of the North Stand. Young Celtic fans made their way onto the track as Danny and the players justifiably milked the celebrations.

Me and my best mate asked my da if it was ok if we ran onto the pitch and he nodded his approval. We were about half way up in the centre of the Celtic End and by the time we got to the front and tried to climb over the fence a polis was kicking the fence from the track side to stop the Celtic support from getting on the pitch.

We tried a few times but couldn't get over the fence due to the polisman's efforts.

The Rangers fans definitely came on the pitch in an aggressive act after young Celtic fans went on the pitch to celebrate with the players. Older Celtic fans (youths) then came on the pitch and the bottles from both sides rained down.

I remember when the Celtic players lifted the trophy the riot was still going on on the pitch and me my da and my best mate hardly even noticed Danny lifting the trophy as we were so busy watching the riot!

The match itself was a very close and nervey contest which could have went either way before George McLuskey's deflection from a Danny McGrain shot (!!) into the Rangers End in extra time. I remember the cloud of smoke from the delapidated Celtic End with the rotting terracing when the goal went in.

There's a cracking picture of McLuskey's leap into the air as the ball went in the net with the Celtic end in the background worth digging out.


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