The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

Cup finals from days gone by

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● Rangers 3 Celtic 1 (1894)

Rangers’ victory at the second Hampden Park, which later became Third Lanark’s Cathkin Park, was the Ibrox club’s first in the final. Celtic, who had won the cup two years earlier, scored through Willie Maley, who was among their first players and would go on to manage the team for 43 years.

● Rangers 4 Celtic 0 (1928)

Rangers had not won the cup for 25 years before the pair met again in the final, with the rivalry now fiercer and more sectarian. A then-record crowd of 118,000 saw the Light Blues triumph.

● Rangers 3 Celtic 0 (1963)

It was another 35 years before the teams met again at the same stage. Gers forward Ralph Brand and Celtic’s Bobby Murdoch were on target in front of almost 130,000 fans in a 1-1 draw before the Govan side triumphed in the replay.

● Celtic 4 Rangers 0 (1969)

Jock Stein’s side clinched their second treble in three seasons thanks to goals from Billy Mcneill, Bobby Lennox, George Connelly and Stevie Chalmers, which took their tally in the cup that season to 25.

● Rangers 3 Celtic 2 (1973)

Tam Forysth netted the winner from a yard out as Rangers clinched only their third major trophy in seven seasons.

● Celtic 1 Rangers 0 (1980)

Fans fought running battles on the Hampden pitch after an extratime goal from George Mccluskey decided the seventh Scottish Cup final meeting between the teams in 18 years. Mounted police struggled to regain control as bottles flew and BBC commentato­r Archie Macpherson likened it to a “scene out of Apocalypse Now”. The incident sparked an alcohol ban in Scottish football grounds which remains in place.

● Rangers 3 Celtic 2 (2002)

Martin O’neill’s Celtic had won the treble the previous season and retained the league, but Peter Lovenkrand­s headed home his second goal of the game in the closing seconds as manager Alex Mcleish secured a cup double. Lovenkrand­s and Barry Ferguson earlier levelled after John Hartson and Bobo Balde had each headed Celtic in front.

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