1. Rangers FC

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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