Rangers FC

Set up in 1872 by four Scottish rowing enthusiasts Named after English Rugby Club First game at Glasgow Green First ‘Old Firm’ game 1888 5-2 Celtic Blue strip came in 1920 (around time of division of Ireland)

Rangers developed as a centre of Protestant interest Many of it’s supporters were Ulster settlers in Scotland Links with Orange Order and Freemasons Between WW1 (1914) and 1980 Rangers did not employ any Catholics Mo Johnston in 1989

Celtic/Rangers religious issues 1999 Donald Findlay singing The Sash Famine song – ‘the famine is over, why don’t you go home’ Orange shirt Tricolour/Union Jack IRA/UVF sympathies Remembrance Day