Goram was exceptional that day. He played out of his skin to honour the memory of his dead auntie.
It was like there was two of him in that goal
Sky Sports initially started covering Scottish football in the 91/92 season I think - I was definitely brought down the local on a Wednesday night to see the 1992 Scottish Cup semi-final when Rangers beat Celtic 1-0, but Sky’s coverage stopped at the end of that season when they got the Premier League rights.
They started covering Scottish football again halfway through the 1994/95 season. The 1-1 draw at Ibrox in which Paul Byrne scored which I saw in the old Skeff was one of the first if not their first live game after resuming coverage.
Sky’s coverage was still fairly sporadic in terms of live matches up to 1998 though when the weekly Sunday 6:05pm matches began. You’d see Celtic live maybe five or six times a year at most in the league. Three derby games and maybe two or three others.
March 1995 was peak big screen in suburban pubs in Dublin. A lot of people were beginning to get Sky by around 1995/96. We got it in April 1995. It was the local for Celtic v Hibs in the Scottish Cup semi-final replay on the Tuesday and then feet up on the couch for Manchester United v Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-final replay on the Wednesday. Me oul’ fella figured that the cost of the Sky was probably cheaper than having to bring the childer down the local most Sundays and some weeknights.
Celtic jerseys were always a thing. CR Smith got great advertising in Ireland. Few people knew what they were though.
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That semi final was my 1st huns game
Probably saw 8 or 9 identical games where it was all Celtic and then rangers would score on the break
The 2 0 lambert game was the turning point
I think RTE screened the Mo Johnston return to Paradise on Sports Stadium in August 1989. Terry Butcher scored with a bullet of a header for Glasgow Rangers in a 1-1 draw, the week before he spilled a gallon of blood on duty for England in Stockholm.
I believe so although I was in England so didn’t see it. @Dziekanowski scored for Celtic in that game. RTE also showed the corresponding first derby game of the season in 1993/94 live which was a 0-0 draw.
I was at the Ireland v West Germany game at Lansdowne Road the same day of the Terry Butcher blood game. There were a group of young hoodlums who were much bigger and older than me on the upstairs back seat of the 25A.shouting “Glasgow Rangers went to Rome to meet the Pope and this is what they said, fuck off!” They did not add the prefix “the famous” at the start of the chant. This was the first time I ever heard this chant.
When & for how long did RTÉ come on board again for League of Scotland coverage? I’ve vague memories of a young Darragh Maloney hosting derby coverage with Johnny Giles & Trevor Steven in studio & Billy McNeill in co-commentary with George Hamilton. Think Billy might have done the odd studio appearance too. Think they covered the 2002-03 season anyway but can’t remember if they did anything either side of it.
Folk of my vintage would initially have followed Celtic via Shoot & Match magazine & you had Bonner, Morris, McCarthy etc when Big Jack got Ireland motoring so there was always acknowledgement of them on RTE reports etc. That obviously continued into the 1990s with Liam Brady managing the side & the likes of Cascarino joining but it was Sky taking the live coverage that provided semi-regular live games in Ireland for the first time.
There was a time in the 90s, maybe from about 91/92 to 95/96, when Celtic tended to do better at Ibrox than at Celtic Park. They’d usually wangle a draw or even win at Ibrox. Then Rangers would come to Parkhead and stuff them.
The last year or so of Tommy Burns’ reign saw Goram take on the persona of an impenetrable wall though.
Stubbs’ last gasp equaliser in the back match played on a Wednesday night in November 1997, the one that was supposed to be played the day Diana died, that was a necessary precursor to the January win. If ever there was a draw which felt like a win that was it. That goal changed a lot because it was the first break Celtic had had in a derby match in the league going back years.
How did you get into going over to matches etc in those days?
RTE only ever covered a very odd league match live. Celtic v Dundee a 6-1 in May 2003 is probably the one you’re thinking of. There might have been one or two others around this general time period but it was always on a freelance, opportunistic basis and there was no concerted coverage.
The 1-0 in March 2003 when Hartson scored was also on RTE live now that I think of it.
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Early 90s with my dad
Later on got a season ticket and we had a CSC
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Was he a donegal man or something?
Definitely there was a marked increase in general interest around 95 or 96 I thought. I could be wrong and that might have been just specific to me or they might have just had a more glamorous team. Stopping that eight then nine then ten in a row was a serious mission.
Must have been a serious sickener that Celtic didn’t get their own ten there a few years back.
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No, not even a Celtic fan as such
Just enjoyed going to sports games so was happy to bring me over
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Anto is a classic name for a Footix alright.
RTÉ used to screen a good proportion of Celtic games from around 2002-2004. It was nearly a biweekly thing for a while.
Yeah but the dominance over the last 20 years is beyond any expectations
Murray really had built a house of cards where in the 90s they could compete with EPL teams but when television money came jnto bigger leagues and he tried to compete with them he destroyed them
I think they will be fucked for another 10 years
Glasgow Celtic came from behind to win 1-2 at Ibrox in Lou Macari’s first match in charge in October 1993. The Glasgow Rangers sub goalkeeper Ally Maxwell had an awful clanger on the equalising goal, which he replicated in a Scottish Cup Final defeat to Dundee United at the end of that season.
Id imagine he flew, short haul, repeatedly…