Football: McStay cracks Ranger
Times, The (London, England)
March 21, 1988
Author: RODDY FORSYTH
Estimated printed pages: 1


Rangers ........ 1 Celtic ......... 2

Who can now stop Celtic taking the Scottish championship in their centenary year and who can say that the honour is anything other than entirely deserved? Yesterday they extended an impressive run which has seen them unbeaten since October 24 by defeating Rangers for the third time this season at Ibrox.
Bill McNeill, the Celtic manager, said: 'It is a particularly satisfying result as Rangers played so well.'

Despite Wilkins and Derek Ferguson dominating midfield, Rangers inexplicably cracked. Celtic scored through clever work by McStay who prompted Rogan and his cross was headed back by Roberts for McStay to score.

Rangers were stunned but struck to their task and hope flared briefly 17 minutes from full time when the rebound from a free kick found Bartram and his low shot deflected from Walker to beat Bonner. Gut six minutes later Celtic restored their lead when they won a series of corners and Burns turned an inswinging ball to Rogan who nodded down towards Walker and the forward carried the ball across the line.

RANGERS: C Woods; S Nisbet, J Bartram, G Roberts, R Wilkins, G Gough, D Ferguson, I Ferguson, A McCoist, I Durrant, M Walters.

CELTIC: P Bonner; C Morris, D Whyte, R Aitken, L Ballie, T Burns, B Stark, P McStay, F McAvennue, A Walker, J Miller (A Rogan).

Rangers scorer: Bartram (74)

Celtic scorers: McStay (67), Walker (79)

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