😂😂😂  I'm sure Rangers have made similar official statements. Doesn't change the fact the rivalry's roots are based in bigotry and both sides are equally complicit in that.  

Makes for great theatre though. Looking forward to the game tonight. 

Keen for tonight. Hope Rogic is starting. 

Just in case that wasn’t enough for you Sutherland Bear:

At school on the walk up the stairs to the first class my mates, who were Rangers supporters, used to sing : Hail hail the Popes in jail….” You know the rest of it.

In the High Street, just around the corner from Causeyside Street there was a shop that sold Family Crests. I have no idea if it is still there.

On the walk down to Love Street on the left hand side, there was a sporting goods shop that I once bought golf clubs from. Close to it was a book store that I sometimes visited during lunch break. Those shops used to board up their windows when the Rangers came to town.

My mates and I often bought Scottish Tablet from a shop near the town hall.

Not long to go now.

He is.

Rogic starting 

Ref not giving Celtic anything. Great noise and atmos 

Madden has been poor.

And he is only getting worse.

GET IT IN THERE!!!!

very lucky deflection.  Keep it up bhoys!!!!

I miss being part of that atmosphere 😟

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extra time celtic playing well but set pieces are terrible. jota came very close.  shame it went to extra time.  Celtic hit the bar in normal time to make it 2-0

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fuck! rangers 2-1 up 114th minutes

Damn. 

Rangers wanted that so much more, I just don’t understand how they ran over the top of Celtic playing 240 minutes over a few nights, Celtic looked dead.

That said Carter Vickers should have buried the match, always felt that would come back to bite.

As much as I don't like saying it. Well done Rangers.

I don't think so!!

Celtic very flat and Rangers very hungry. Celtic’s attack was impotent tonight. Disappointing showing from Celtic. Missed GG a lot and Kyogo didn’t have a sniff. Rangers also dominated the midfield. Congrats to Rangers, that was a huge effort after playing 120mins on Thursday night as well. They’ve undermined their own argument to move any League fixtures due to Europe commitments, so that might be Celtic’s only positive from the night. 

We can't win them all and had an off day.

For me, Bobby Madden let his bias show. He had a shocker and allowed the huns to kick us off the park.

And Tims being Tims revert into bheast mode by blaming the referee.

Never defeated, always cheated since 1888.

And no Rhebel treble !!

Madden’s performance was predictable but Rangers deserved the win. He was poor but so were we.

Was Ange’s refusal to change things up exposed? Possibly, but it was one game were Celtic was bullied out of the midfield.

Rogic was nullified by foul play which often went unpunished. On one occasion he was fouled 3 times in one move before he flung the player off of him and the huns got the free kick.

McGregor then ankle tapped a player and got booked. Come on. You can’t be that blind not to have noticed that.

Rangers got 3 yellow cards against Rogic and should have had twice that many. Aribo rugby tackled Rogic twice and was not punished. Had anyone else been officiating you wouldn’t have finished the game with 11 men.

So the ref did play a major factor but for me as much as it hurts to say it, Rangers were the better team on the day.

The referee was horrific. 

It's called " the dark arts " all the big teams use it.

Rangers simply the better team. Celtic were awfully undersized and easily dominated in midfield and final third. Celtic couldn’t hold the ball or get any cohesion in attack. Bad tactics by Ange to play Maeda as a sole striker, needed someone like Giakoumakis to hold the ball up. Didn’t think the ref was a factor at all. Rangers were hard and physical but tackles were fair. 

Giakoumakis was injured. I think many will stop underestimating his significance to the team, he was a monster at Ibrox a couple weeks ago, they missed him.

Maeda was dissapointing, think he even went soft and pulled out of a few 50/50 balls.

Rubbish. The tackles were often  outside the laws of the game.
Please explain how Bitton could be brought on when he wasn’t on the bench.
Even a former SFA referee, Derek Crothers, "called out Bobby Madden's atrocious performance in the Scottish Cup semi-final".

This is from the Daily Record:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bobby-madden-embarrassing-himself-blast-26731306

Pundits lined up to slaughter Bobby Madden's performance at Hampden on Sunday.
Madden was tasked with officiating the Scottish Cup semi final clash between Celtic and Rangers and the referee’s display didn’t go down well in some quarters.
The 43-year old was taking charge of his ninth derby between the Glasgow giants and was involved in a series of controversial on-field decisions.
From allowing John Lundstram several fouls before booking him to awarding Celtic a 'soft' free kick in the build-up to Greg Taylor's opener, Madden's name has been on the lips of many.
Chris Sutton was first to slam the official and ripped into him after Lundstram brought down Callum McGregor.
Speaking on Premier Sports, the Celtic legend said: "Bobby Madden is just embarrassing himself."

Later, Sutton had another pop on the free-kick that was awarded which led to Taylor’s goal.
The Record Sport columnist blasted: "He’s had a shocker all afternoon."
Michael Stewart also waded in, saying: "Bobby Madden has had an absolute shocker. Some of the decisions out there were ridiculous."
Sutton wasn’t finished there, though. After a free-kick was awarded to Rangers deep into extra time, Sutton added: "That’s amazing from Bobby."
It wasn't just the Premier Sports commentary team that were concerned at the decisions Madden made.
The whistler's antics even unified both sets of supporters online.
Celtic podcast Celts Are Here tweeted, "Bobby Madden has been a disgrace in this first half. Outrageously bad."
While another wrote, "Note for Bobby Madden - it's not your job to keep players on the pitch, it's your job to enforce the laws of the game and protect players safety by enforcing said laws of the game."
A Rangers fan agreed saying the man in the middle shouldn't be refereeing a game of this magnitude.
He tweeted: "Bobby Madden shouldn’t be near games of this level. Howling for both sides."

OMG someone stop the presses, need new headline ‘Celtic fans whinge and moan about referee when they were so clearly outplayed by dominant Rangers’