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Quick Review

In what were very dark days, it was hard for us to get even a glimmer of hope that we were able to compete with the Huns. They were just financially way ahead of us, and there was a lack of stability at the club after Jansen had left at the end of the last season, and so all the good feelings were dissappating esp after the reception Fergus McCann got at the unfurling of the league flag back in August. The omens weren't really good, but any game v Rangers was said to be unpredictable and this one lived up to that more than most.

Put simply we hunskelped them supremely. Two wonderful goals by Lubo followed by two more gems by Larsson and then capped by a Mark Burchill goal sent Celtic Park into delerium. The quality of the play was great, and you couldn't ask for a better set of goals then that what was scored on the day. Lubo was a gem, and outshone everyone. A joy to watch, and the moniker "A Gift from God" was born for the great man.

It was a massive victory which got all our hopes up. Were we back in with contention? Was Venglos vindicated as a manager? Its all academic now, as the season as a whole saw the Huns ride off with the league trophy again and it was in retrospect a false dawn.

Regardless, amongst all the gloom and doom, this was a wonderful respite for us all.

Trivia

• Match is famous for the Lubo "arse-trap", ball came down and rather than control it with his chest, he let the ball slip down fall between his legs and stopped the ball dead by patting it with his arse!!! Funny, clever and wonderful bit of skill by the genius that was Lubo.
• One of the last Celtic v Rangers games to have been played at 3pm on a Saturday! (exc Scottish cup finals etc)
  

Teams

Celtic:-
Warner, Boyd, Mahe, Stubbs, Mjallby, O'Donnell, Lambert, Moravcik (Burchill 82), Riseth, Donnelly (Hannah 79), Larsson.

Subs not used:- McCondichie, Brattbakk, Annoni.

Booked:- Stubbs.

Goals:- Moravcik 11, 49, Larsson 51, 57, Burchill 89.


Rangers:-
Niemi, Porrini, Numan, B. Ferguson (I. Ferguson 74), Kanchelskis (Vidmar 61), Van Bronckhorst, Albertz (Durie 61), Guivarc'h, Wallace, Wilson, Hendry.

Subs not used:- Nicholson, Brown.

Goal:- Van Bronckhorst 53.

Sent Off:- Wilson (22).

Booked:- Numan, Hendry.

Att:- 59,703

Ref:- W Young.

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