- 1. It’s Not All About The Old Firm: Defying the odds in Scottish football ...
- (Clubs)
- ... the same group of players would have been more successful if playing for the Old Firm: “I think if our Dundee United team had been in blue or green-and-white hooped shirts then I think we would have won ...
- Created on 21 February 2018
- 2. Firm Favourites: Old Firm ...
- (Clubs)
- Religion and football remain a potent and unpleasant mix. Dianne Millen finds the Old Firm may have ulterior reasons to distance themselves from bigotry. When is an orange not an orange? When it’s a tangerine, ...
- Created on 14 April 2004
- 3. Old Firm, old tactics ...
- (Clubs)
- As Alex McLeish takes over at Rangers he joins an ever increasing list of departures from Easter Road to one of the Old Firm, Jill Birnie says My first experience of seeing my team, Hibernian, being preyed ...
- Created on 14 February 2002
- 4. The Old Firm ...
- (Clubs)
- Divided opinions as two fans debate as to whether Scottish football would be better off without the Old Firm For ~ The reaction of Scottish Premier League managers and administrators to the suggestion ...
- Created on 14 October 2001
- 5. Old firm, new product ...
- (Editorials)
- The Old Firm's proposal to join the Premier League Ten years ago this summer, the FA published its Blueprint for Football, which first made explicit its support for the breakaway Premier League, to ...
- Created on 14 September 2001
- 6. From the archive ~ How the old Wembley earned its worldwide affection ...
- (Stories)
- ... usually went down well. This increasing stage-management prompted some old-timers to look back with nostalgia to the carnival atmosphere of the Crystal Palace finals before the First World War. "There wa ...
- Created on 27 March 2017
- 7. Saints’ latest reset faces early test at Old Trafford ...
- (Stories)
- ... Old Trafford were thin on the ground until 2015, when Louis van Gaal got United passing sideways and we beat them 1-0 in successive seasons. These were significant milestones. Prior to this we had to go ...
- Created on 19 August 2016
- 8. Oldham eager to leave their summer of chaos behind ...
- (Stories)
- Latics faced hunt for new manager, a winding-up petition and ownership uncertainty Embed from Getty Images 6 August ~ The start of 2016-17 can't come soon enough for Oldham Athletic fans like me ...
- Created on 06 August 2016
- 9. The old alliance ...
- (Clubs)
- ... injuries exposed a lack of depth, costing Ipswich a First Division championship and a place in the FA Cup final. Thijssen was also the first footballer I ever full-on idolised. I was a six-year-old ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
- 10. Firm foundations
- (Clubs)
- ... anniversary for that competition – it is now 25 years since a team other than the Old Firm won the championship. Since Alex Ferguson led Aberdeen to their third title in six years, in his penultimate season ...
- Created on 21 September 2010
- 11. Firm favourites
- (Films)
- ... its unpleasantness is undermined by a strong suspicion that everyone involved was trying not to laugh; the whole thing is so hokey it could be an old Jess Franco women-in-prison movie, the lesbian S&M ...
- Created on 21 June 2009
- 12. Fools gold ...
- (South America)
- ... Angeles Games: “In 1984 the country didn’t give any importance to Olympic gold. The priority was always the World Cup. But today we are told that a gold medal will be like the eighth wonder of the world.” ...
- Created on 21 October 2008
- 13. Firm favourite
- (Players)
- ... holder told me: “There’s nothing to his game, you just wind him up and off he goes. I mean he can go, but still.” Frankly, if Miller was returning as a former Celt with a world-class reputation, the ...
- Created on 21 September 2008
- 14. Where the sponsors hold sway ...
- (Business & finance)
- ... you wonder how long they can hold out against the lure of the Superfunds. From WSC 249 November 2007 ...
- Created on 14 November 2007
- 15. Making firm plans
- (Media)
- Celtic and Rangers finally break away from the SPL – well, on the television at least, writes Colin Armstrong In keeping with a recent tradition of making joint statements, the Old Firm recently came ...
- Created on 14 September 2004
- 16. Firm favourites: Ireland
- (International football)
- ... first international at Windsor Park to see Northern Ireland play Moldova. Our players wore green, but numerous fans sported Rangers scarves of red, white and blue or the purple and orange colours of the ...
- Created on 14 April 2004
- 17. Firm rebuttal
- (Organisation & structure)
- ... Old Firm’s last-minute decision to pull the plug on the proposed SPL TV channel proved to be the last straw for the chairmen of the ten, who watched 15 months of supposed unanimity on a broadcasting deal ...
- Created on 14 June 2002
- 18. Same old stories? ...
- (World Cup 1998)
- ... the English are also fiercely loyal to a game and a fan-led culture that is being transformed into a vehicle for selling fizzy drinks and hamburgers. It’s this passionate defence of the old footballing ...
- Created on 14 August 1998
- 19. Old habits ...
- (World Cup 1998)
- ... seems to be due to the high average age of the German team, but this is only half true. Vogts didn’t pick 37-year-old Matthäus, 33-year-old Klinsmann or 32-year-old Kohler because he mistrusted younger ...
- Created on 14 August 1998
- 20. Ashley Cole remains under-appreciated despite pioneering trophy-packed career
- (Stories)
- ... a player who has felt curiously rootless and unloved throughout his career. Of the much-vaunted, and subsequently derided, golden generation, Cole was arguably the only one to live up to his billing. ...
- Created on 13 February 2019
