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It's Celtic who owe Rangers a guard of honour as Hotline keeps the receipts in 51 year wait for payback
@Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
To guard of honour or not to guard of honour? That is the question being asked ahead of the final Old Firm clash of the season but we all know the answer. If Celtic avoid defeat to Dundee Utd in their first post-split fixture, then they will head to Ibrox the following week as Champions. So of course the usual dance around whether Rangers will applaud their bitter rivals onto the pitch comes up again and of course they won't. But apparently it's actually Rangers who are due one from 51 years ago and Celtic have been making them wait every since. Who knew? Well, it seems Derek Morrison, Stirling, did. He emailed: "It’s evident that Alistair Johnston is being used as a mouthpiece by the Celtic hierarchy. "The only team from the Old Firm to give the other a Guard of Honour was Rangers in 1964 for reaching the last four of the Cup Winners Cup, Celtic have never returned the favour and vowed they never would." Stephen Mulhern, Dumbarton, reckons it would make up for Vaclav Cerny's antics: "While I agree with Ally Johnston that it will be unlikely that Rangers give Celtic a guard of honour, it would go somewhere in a sort of apology for Cerny's childish actions in the last match. "How Ferguson and his three musketeers didn’t condone his actions still leaves a bitter taste in Celtic fans' eyes." For once, a Celtic fan is on board with Tina Turner blasting as the teams come. Glen Mitchell emailed: "When Celtic walk out in the next Glasgow Derby, it will be the first time in a long time that the Tina Turner song will actually have any relevance. "After the match they should change the song to Neil Diamond's Song Sung Blue, which would have much more significance in the venue." Paul Hartley urged Celtic to deal in box office Brendan for the benefit of all Scottish football, but that's not gone down to well with with Peter Cooperwhite. He emailed: "So Paul Hartley has started the title party early as he must have had a few to many when he said Brendan Rodgers is a box office manager. It was once a marquee manager. "When you sober up Paul, check Brendan's stats as a manager in Europe. It's not good viewing as stats make him one of the worst managers in Champions League history." Gary Stevenson, Newtonhill, insists there's only one box office event this week and has warned Celtic fans there's no escaping it. He said: "How very predictable that on the cusp of another European week for Rangers that the Celtic contingent will do anything to deflect from the big story. "The Ayr Accountant Gordon Ashley delivers the usual nonsense and James Logan even tried to deflect focus on Rangers by talking about Golf. The whole of Europe is focused on the big games this week, the Ashleys and Logan's are immersed in Dragons Den." Finally, Rory McIlroy's Masters win was well received by just about everyone, although it's noticed that Nick Faldo managed to make it all about him. George Grant, Elgin, has urged him to literally wind his neck in. He said: "After seeing Faldo's comments at the Masters where he made sure we all knew how good a golfer he was rather than commenting on Rory's golf and success, perhaps we should rename him Sair Neck Faldo? As his head is so big that his neck can't hold it up. "Then he can insist, as he always does, that we give him his title. So Sair Neck it will be from now on."
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