2 January 1998
Celtic 2 Rangers 0 – 2nd January 1998. Photo The Celtic Wiki
Celtic 2-0 Rangers. Outwith St Johnstone in the final league meeting of the season, this memorable victory over Rangers was not only the most important win of the 1997/1998 season, but of the entire 90s. It was a must-win for Wim Jansen given the Hoops were trailing their rivals by four points in the league. Three points for the visitors and it may well have been curtains for Celtic in their pursuit of ending Rangers’ coveted 10 in a row. Gascoigne tried to wind the Celtic support up by playing an imaginary flute. But it was the home support who would have the last laugh courtesy of Craig Burley and the exceptional Paul Lambert’ second half strikes. The result would evidently prove physiologically seismic for Celtic who kickstarted their run to securing the league championship for the first time since the Centenary season.
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My main memory of the ‘Mark Walters’ incident was Scotsport the following day. Ian Archer was up first and delivered a well deserved lambasting to the idiots responsible. He then turned to one of the Rangers board who was there to talk about the squillions of pounds then being spent on re-developing Ibrox.
“X million pounds,” he said (can’t remember the exact amount), “that’s a lot of bananas!”
I don’t remember anything else as I was rolling on the floor laughing.