Celtic-Rangers / Rangers-Celtic

Football's ultimate rivalries -- in a book of two halves. Is the final score Celtic 100 Rangers 0? Or Rangers 100 Celtic 0?
     Celtic Rangers. Rangers Celtic. The Old Firm. Detested opponents.

     Celtic: The Lisbon Lions, the first British club to be European champions. Rangers: what's that you say? 1-0 Celtic.

     King Kenny: the clue is in the name. And he was a Rangers fan! Mo Johnston: nah. 2-0 Celtic.

     Celtic: Scottish Premier League champions. Rangers: couple of promotions to go, eh? 3-0 Celtic.

     You get the picture. But there are two sides to every story.

     Rangers: founded 1873. Celtic: 1888. That'll be 15 years later! 1-0 Rangers.

     League champions? 54 beats 45, whichever way you turn it around. 2-0 Rangers.

     Record transfer fee received - Celtic: £6.5 million for Stilian Petrov. Oops! Rangers: £9 million for Alan Hutton. Result! 3-0 Rangers.

     You decide.

TIM GLYNNE-JONES and WILL BROOKS worked together at Match of the Day magazine, where Tim was editor for five years, and later on the internet football community MyFootballClub.co.uk, which Will founded in 2007. Will now works as a copywriter and Tim is a journalist, copywriter and author, with more than twenty non-fiction books to his name on subjects as diverse as football and grammar.