Honours Even As Celtic and Rangers Play It Safe: Strachan's Men Stay Two Points Clear at Top After Tentative Derby Match
The Scotsman › February 17, 2009
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Celtic 0 Rangers 0
ON A day when both clubs appeared to take precisely what they wanted, Celtic and Rangers produced the kind of match that could prompt a search for suspicious betting patterns. The bulk of the crowd who filed almost silently out of the great stadium would be suffused with the overwhelming impression that the result had been pre-arranged.See the full content of this document
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Honours Even As Celtic and Rangers Play It Safe: Strachan's Men Stay Two Points Clear at Top After Tentative Derby Match
Celtic's two-point lead at the top of the Scottish Premier League remained intact, and even Walter Smith's team seemed to be happy with that. Rangers, having spent the first half basically throwing a blanket over the game, emerged a little more ambitiously in the second, but total commitment to victory seemed, overall, to be an alien concept to both sides. A blandness from which there were only fleeting escapes would turn the self-styled world's greatest derby into a virtually valueless selling plate.
Referee Calum Murray cont...See the full content of this document
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