1980 Scottish Cup final
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The 1980 Scottish Cup Final was played on 10 May 1980 at
Match details
The match represented a last chance of success in the 1979–80 season for the traditionally dominant Old Firm, as Aberdeen had won the Scottish league championship.[1] Celtic had finished above Rangers in the league, but Rangers went into the match as bookmakers' favourites because Celtic were missing Tom McAdam, Roddie MacDonald and Jim Casey from their lineup due to injury.[1][2]
| Celtic | 1 – 0 (a.e.t.) | Rangers |
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McCluskey  107' |
Report (page 20) |
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Riot
The match is also remembered for a riot that followed its conclusion,[3] which BBC News described in 2011 as the "most infamous case of disorder" in an Old Firm match.[4] Rival fans battled on the Hampden Park pitch and mounted police attempted to defuse the trouble, which was largely attributed to the excessive consumption of alcohol.[3]
After winning the match, the Celtic players went to celebrate with their supporters, as was the normal practice.[1] The SFA had given both teams permission to parade the Scottish Cup trophy on the pitch after the match, as they had recently installed a 10-foot-high perimeter fence around Hampden.[5] Some of the Celtic supporters climbed over the perimeter fences and joined the players on the pitch.[1][2][5] An investigation by the SFA executive committee found that this initial invasion of the pitch was "a spontaneous, if misguided, expression of joy."[5][6]
Some of the Rangers fans had stayed behind, despite their team's defeat.
This is like a scene now out of Apocalypse Now ... We've got the equivalent of Passchendaele and that says nothing for Scottish football. At the end of the day, let's not kid ourselves. These supporters hate each other.
Both clubs were fined £20,000 after the events and more than 200 arrests were made in the Hampden area.[5] Celtic blamed Strathclyde Police for their handling of the riot.[1] The vast majority of the police officers on duty were outside the ground after the match, to prevent any trouble in the streets surrounding Hampden Park.[1] The police and the SFA had assumed that the perimeter fences would prevent fans from invading the pitch, but they were later described as being completely inadequate.[1][5] The police blamed Celtic fans for the disorder, a position Rangers concurred with.[1] In response, Celtic cited the underlying hostility between the two sets of fans, caused by the sectarianism in Glasgow.[1] Celtic chairman Desmond White also cited the fact that Celtic fielded a mixture of Catholics and Protestants in their team, inferring that the problem was not caused by his club.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Scotland On Sunday. Archived from the originalon 24 September 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Old Firm cup final memories". BBC Sport. 1 May 2002. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Murrayfield alcohol ban removed". BBC News. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Ponsonby, Brian (8 March 2011). "'Old Firm' faultline is once again a political football". BBC News. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Galbraith, Russell (16 October 1993). "When Two Tribes Go To War". The Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Murray, Bill (2000) The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland, p. 196. John Donald Publisher, Edinburgh.
- ^ Robertson, Rob (9 June 2007). "Alcohol ban is lifted for rugby matches at Murrayfield". The Herald. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Call to scrap rugby alcohol ban". BBC News. 18 June 2003. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ Scotland On Sunday. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
