MARTIN O'NEILL'S FIRST RANGERS MATCH

This was Martin O'Neill's first Old Firm game and what a game. New £6million striker Chris Sutton had poor old Klos picking the ball out of his net in the first minute and made him do it again in the last seconds of this glorious match when he scored Celtic's sixth. We had hardly sat down after a rousing chorus of Walk on when Lubo Moravcik hit a corner kick to Larsson on the edge of the box and the Swede directed the ball to Sutton who fired home from close range. The Slovak magician was at the heart of the second as well when he hit another corner kick to Stan Petrov to fire past the hopeless Klos from the edge of the box.

On 11 minutes Lubo shrugged off the attention of mad dog Ricksen and knocked the ball back to the edge of the huns penalty box for Mr Football, Paul Lambert, to fire a rocket shot into their net again. Celtic were 3-0 up. To save him further embarassment from the roasting he was getting from Bobby Petta on the wing, Mad Dog was taken off and replaced by Tugay Kerimoglu. This changed nothing and although they scored the next goal through Reyna, the Celtic lead was quickly restored by the man that turns grey skies blue- Henrik Larsson. A goal that i'll never forget, it came when a long clearance from Jonathon Gould landed in the path of the King of Kings. He was still over 40 yards from the Rangers penalty box, but he picked the ball up and nutmegged Bert Konterman's and then delicately lobbed the onrushing Santa Klos as he came from his goals in a futile attempt to stop the King scoring.

We still celebrating that one when Henrik did it again. In the 62nd minute he leaped to meet a Bobby Petta free-kick in the box and glanced a header past the hopeless Klos in the Rangers goal. The game was well over by this point but there was still time for big Chris Sutton to score his second in the last minute as he slid in to direct a Stephane Mahe cross into the net. As if all of this was not enough, we were also treated to Barry Ferguson being sent off for losing the heed and acting like a big wean. Great !!!!!!!!

It was a brilliant day, among the best ever and up there for me with the "10 men won the league" game in 1979 and the Boavista semi-final in Porto in 2003 as my proudest moments as a Celtic fan. It was an emphatic victory against them but not the last from Martin O'Neill. If you want to see stuff from some of his other victories against Mintys XI - click here for a tribute to Alex McLeish.

A report on Primal Scream at the Reading Festival 2000

Primal Scream’s arrival on the Leeds site had to be the classiest of the wekeend - literally five minutes before they were supposed to be on stage, their bus screamed into the backstage enclosure and screeched dramatically to a halt in a cloud of dust behind the Main Stage, for the band to casually saunter off it, go on stage and perform an absolute blinder of a set, which closed with Bobby G declaring: "Celtic - 6, Rangers - 2."

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