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Why "the Old Firm"?
Celtic and Rangers became known as the Old Firm at the turn of the last century amid a suspicion among various observers that the two clubs were meeting too frequently, and drawing matches thus concocting the need for replays, purely for money-making purposes. They were thus called "the old firm" as in a firm of accountants, etc.See the full content of this document
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Old Firm Faq
The phrase was first used publicly in a cartoon strip which appeared in The Scottish Referee, then a popular sports journal, prior to the 1904 Scottish...
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