Old Firm: Celtic-Rangers and the Match Where Religion, Politics, and Class Entered the Stadium
M. Muñoz
M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Old Firm tells the story of the fiercest rivalry in world football: Celtic against Rangers, two Glasgow clubs whose ninety minutes carry more than a century of religion, migration, politics, and class. Founded to feed Irish Catholic families in the city's East End, Celtic became a symbol of an immigrant community's rise. Rangers, rooted in Glasgow's Protestant, unionist neighborhoods, built a rival institution that for decades refused to sign a Catholic player. This book traces both clubs from their nineteenth-century origins through European glory, financial collapse, and legislative attempts to police sectarian chanting, always asking how a single fixture became a mirror for an entire city's identity. Readers will find the Lisbon Lions and Ibrox's darkest afternoons, banned songs and packed terraces, boardroom crises and dressing-room revolutions, narrated with journalistic rigor and without taking sides. For readers of social history who rarely pick up a sports book, Old Firm offers something rarer than a match report: a way to understand Glasgow, and the uses and costs of collective identity, through ninety minutes at a time.
Old Firm tells the story of the fiercest rivalry in world football: Celtic against Rangers, two Glasgow clubs whose ninety minutes carry more than a century of religion, migration, politics, and class. Founded to feed Irish Catholic families in the city's East End, Celtic became a symbol of an im...
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