26 Nov 2025 23:34:44
Tomorrow November 27th will always be a dark day when we lost on Penalties at Ibrox to Raith Rovers in 1994.
It was also the same date we had a referee from Luxembourg take our match at home to Inverness CT due to the strike from Scottish Referees in 2010.
Originally referees came from another Country ( maybe Portugal ) but didn't realise there was a National Strike and they then also refused to officiate Scottish games.
Up stepped the Luxembourg referee who agreed to do the match at Celtic Park on the Saturday and then also do the Rangers match at Tannadice on the Sunday.
The referee had a good game at Celtic Park although we threw away a 2 goal lead to finish the match 2-2.
The match at Tannadice the next day was postponed due to snow.
Unbelievably the Dundee United V Rangers rearranged match never took place until 20 weeks later on April 19th 2011.
The pressure was on Wullie Collum because Rangers were playing catch-up and he never disappointed.
Collum awarded Rangers 3 penalties and he also Sent Off the 3 Dundee United players for the offences.
Rangers won 4-0 to go 4 points ahead but Celtic had 2 games in hand.
The Old Ibrox club cut the goal difference in half to only 4 behind.
It was another bottle job from Celtic that season but we didn't know we were competing against a cheating EBT Rangers FC team.
27 Nov 2025 18:47:35
Not entirely football related.
Buzz, the Dundee United v Rangers game, was cancelled the Rangers players heading back to Glasgow, tried to help a crash. Me and the wife were stuck in traffic, took us 8 hrs to go from Livingston to Dundee, only to be told by the rozzers the road was closed, we got another night away, but I remember the papers being full of stuff about the Rangers players helping, probably the only time they had ever done something for someone.
Even I got my mug in the papers, sitting in the car stuck in all that snow. 2010 winter was bad.