Permanent embarrassment and occasional disgrace, or something similar he called them Frank.
I found this in a book of newspaper reports of important Celtic games since 1925. This is from the Daily Record of 12/5/1980 after the Cup final riot, written by Alex Cameron
The root cause is religion, Rangers stubbornly refuse to do their part in a modern way to start the long and difficult process of removing this horrible barrier.
This can only be kicked off when they sign Catholic players as they promised they would after rioting at Birmingham in October 1976, when the referee had to abandon a friendly game against Aston Villa.
Rangers raised this as an issue themselves. And in doing so openly conceded that their policy of religious apartheid played a significant part in sordid crowd trouble. The Ibrox club have sidestepped their responsibilities and broken a promise. Surely they cannot go on doing so. Its important to face the fact Celtic are seen as representatives of Catholics and rangers the team of Protestants. But, whereas several of the Celtic team who won the cup are non Catholic, the Rangers losers were all Protestants.
There is even a practical side to this. Rangers penalise themselves in the search for players which they cannot afford to do on the evidence of Saturdays game.
Here we are 43 years later and religious hatred is alive and well at the Den of No Equity
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