Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow. On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight, understanding and depth.
| ISBN: | 9781847678393 |
| Publication date: | 2nd August 2012 |
| Author: | Richard Wilson |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Association football (Soccer) Sports teams and clubs |