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The stadium attendance records for Rangers' Ibrox (118,567, January 1939) [224] [225] and Celtic's Celtic Park (officially 83,500 but estimated at 92,000 with around 10,000 more locked out, January 1938) [226] [227] were both set at Old Firm matches; however while the Ibrox figure is the Rangers club record (and the record for any domestic ...
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1 April - BSB's Sports Channel provides the first UK-wide live broadcast of a Scottish League match, the Old Firm game at Ibrox Park. [181] 14 April - BSB shows live coverage of a Scottish Cup semi-final across the UK for the first time. The match between Aberdeen and Dundee United kicks off at 3pm on the Saturday afternoon. [181]
Between 1998–99 and 2001–02, exclusive television rights for live Scottish Premier League matches were held by Sky Sports. In January 2002, the SPL rejected a £45 million offer from Sky Sports and began considering setting up its own pay-per-view channel, dubbed "SPL TV". [ 52 ]
While Old Firm derby matches between Scottish clubs Rangers and Celtic are known to go beyond the sport with its "enormous quantity of references to wider cultural and political issues". [11] The first football derby played was between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. in December 1860. [12]
Celtic and Rangers meet in the Scottish Cup final for the first time since 2002 and the stakes are high as ever. Both sides of the Old Firm are seeking a double, with Celtic clinching the league ...
The 1980 Scottish Cup Final was played on 10 May 1980 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 95th Scottish Cup competition. Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers contested the match, which Celtic won 1–0 after extra time when George McCluskey scored the winning goal off of a corner.
August – BBC Scotland begins showing live Scottish Premier League matches. The deal also sees the Old Firm matches shown across all of the UK. [37] 2003. The BBC wins the rights to the MotoGP World Championship. Previously, the corporation had only covered the British leg of the championships. 24 May – The BBC's coverage of the Heineken Cup ...