Rangers/Chelsea connection

[erskblue]

http://rangersfacts1872.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-rangers-chelsea-one-of-finest.html?m=1

Saw this on a Rangers site today. Very interesting reading particularly on Jackie Robertson.

 

[Lofty.]

I honestly had no idea the links went back so far, and this, the first meeting between the two clubs, took place before I was so much as the proverbial twinkle in my old man's eye!

 

[Peckham Blue]

I honestly had no idea the links went back so far, and this, the first meeting between the two clubs, took place before I was so much as the proverbial twinkle in my old man's eye!

Neither did I, the Ron Harris testimonial was the first I remember.  It must be about time we played them down here surely and a guaranteed sell out.

 

[erskblue]

Glad to be of help

 

[NigelTukkerFct]

Rangers?? Come on Celtic is a better club..I think Celtic have a better history and rangers third division not so good but nothing against both of them I don't follow Scottisch Premier League but I have LITTLE more with Celtic

 

[moi]

Rangers?? Come on Celtic is a better club..I think Celtic have a better history and rangers third division not so good but nothing against both of them I don't follow Scottisch Premier League but I have LITTLE more with Celtic

Give it a rest, there's good little troll!

 

[NigelTukkerFct]

Give it a rest, there's good little troll!

Hahaha I only said..But Celtic is friends with Liverpool aren't they?

 

[moi]

"Celtic ARE friends, AREN'T they?" is the correct way to say it...

 

[undertow]

Are you sure friends is the correct term, moi?

 

[moi]

Are you sure friends is the correct term, moi?

well, there is a rhyming phrase which springs to mind, but as I'm a well brought-up lady, I don't like to use it .....

 

[NigelTukkerFct]

well, there is a rhyming phrase which springs to mind, but as I'm a well brought-up lady, I don't like to use it .....

Don't do it u know Im lying under u bed But im from Holland so my English is not that good buteh I can say my English football verstand is quite good !!

 

[erskblue]

"Celtic ARE friends, AREN'T they?" is the correct way to say it...

Thud, as erskblue faints

 

[Lofty.]

Found this article the other day, referring to the 1954 Rangers v Chelsea game mentioned earlier in this thread. Nice article, it also includes references to Roy Bentley playing for England against Scotland, and an example of early 1950s hooliganism in Austria: