2 January 2023
Daizen Maeda scores Celtic’s first goal past goalkeeper, Allan McGregor of theRangers during the Scottish Premiership match between theRangers and Celtic on January 02, 2023 . (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Rangers 2-2 Celtic. Kyogo netted a late equaliser persevering Celtic’s nine point lead at the top of the table and summing up the never say die attitude of Ange Postecoglou’s Treble winning team. Maeda opened the scoring becoming the first Celtic scorer of the calendar year [like he has done in years 2022, 2023, and 2024]following costly errors from first Alfredo Morelos, and then James Tavernier. However, 100 seconds after the restart, John Beaton controversially awarded a penalty to the hosts after Carl Starfelt fouled Fashion Sakala. Tavernier converted and made it 1-1. Ryan Kent curled one into the top corner moments later to put Michael Beale’s side ahead in the game. But, it was Kyogo’s title-defining strike late on that gave Celtic a much-deserved point. Post-match Ange Postecoglou said, “it was a great game of football before we get to anything else, it was a cracking game. All eyes, not just in Scotland, but around the world were on it, and both teams at it — a proper derby.”!
Conor Spence
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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.