Celtic have laughed off demands from Sevco for an apology after an online article referred to the 3-0 win over the Ibrox side in April as the last ever derby.
Hoops fans celebrated like never before as the champions turned on the style to demolish their city rivals 3-0 with Charlie Mulgrew, Kris Commons and Gary Hooper on target that April afternoon.
At that time Rangers were already in administration with liquidation announced in June followed by desperate attempts by the SPL and SFA to create a place for newco in the top division.
After 125 seasons of rivalry the Celtic v Rangers fixture was dead with the matter chronicled in a review of the year that appeared on the Celtic website alongwith other events from a momentous year.
An eagle-eyed Ibrox insider spotted the apparent slight prompting an article in the programme against Elgin City on Saturday which was then published on the club website.
It claimed: “When Rangers were at their lowest ebb, the likes of Celtic, Dundee United and Hibernian seemed to be most keen to keep them pinned down.
“There were others too, including some in the media, who seemed to delight in the fact that the Light Blues were getting weaker by the day.
“Lawwell once said Celtic didn’t need Rangers and perhaps he was right. They seem to be prospering both at home and abroad without us, so let’s leave them to it.
“By the same token, the last six months have proved Rangers don’t need Celtic either.”
That final comment can be judged once Charles Green’s holding company get around to publishing their first audited accounts.
Green has talked regularly of Celtic from his wish to hear the Champions League anthem to including the club in statements made about British and European leagues.
Celtic have steered clear of commenting on any of Green’s claims and weren’t prepared to play ball when they were approached by the Daily Record for a reaction to Saturday’s opinion piece.
A Celtic spokesman told the Record: “It’s quite bizarre, but not worthy of further comment.”
Former Daily Record reporter James Traynor is now the communications director at Ibrox.
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We won’t be the last club to claim they’re an entirely new entity. All of Europe will say the exact same thing IF they ever get into Europe again in the next 20 odd years. Are they gonna start suing anyone who makes factual statements?
It must have taken Traynor three weeks to come up with that crap. Well done Celtic for not responding to such a futile Sevco attempt to associate themselves with a real football team. Sevco are desperately trying to get he whole world to be as deluded as themselves and pretend that they are still the old dead Rangers. . .poor fools…Poor Sevco.
Sevco 5088 comedy gold
Aye it was the bad cafflic teams wot dun it, the fact that every team bar that dirty hun at killie voted to not accept them escapes them, they are so stupid its no even funny
i see killie posted a profit of 11 grand for the year magical results indeed. my wish for this happy new year would be to see them ***** go down never to return. that chairman of theirs is a tadger of the highest order a bigoted one at that. hail hail