Glasgow Rangers beat Celtic at Parkhead in April 1989 and the Ibrox side went on to win nine titles in a row.
Glasgow Rangers four-time Scottish league champion Stuart Munro has claimed that Sunday’s Scottish Premiership derby between the Ibrox side and bitter rivals Celtic could be the most significant in the last 30 years.
Rangers currently sit 10 points behind the Hoops, who are top of the table, but their last meeting, back in December, resulted in the Light Blues running out 1-0 winners at Ibrox following a dominant performance against the Parkhead side.
Gers have failed to record a victory at Celtic Park for nearly nine years, when Kenny Miller scored twice in a 3-1 win, which The Scotsman reports that it equals the longest barren run in their history, set in the 1980s.
In April 1989, Graeme Souness’s side went to Parkhead, with Rangers not having won there since August 1980, but ran out 2-1 winners in a result which not only yielded the league title but began a run of nine consecutive titles (official Gers website).
In conversation with The Scotsman, Munro spoke of how the Light Blues are now on par with Celtic on the pitch, something which they’ve had to work hard towards in the last few years given what happened earlier in the decade, and is optimistic about the Ibrox side’s future.
“Now, even if Celtic are still stronger, I think Rangers are capable of giving them a game,” the four-time title winner and three-time League Cup champion said. “That was the case when we were dominant in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Celtic always gave us a game.
“Indeed, it took Graeme Souness nearly three years to win at Parkhead in that famous 1989 game, but, once he did, it really changed things. We went on to have a lot of good results at Celtic Park in the following years. I’m hoping it’s the same for Steven Gerrard this weekend.”
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