Two Sidess One Story the Day Graeme Souness Broke with Tradition to Sign Maurice Johnston
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TWENTY years ago today, at precisely 10am and amid scenes of slack-jawed disbelief, Rangers signalled a belated end to their reprehensible policy of religious apartheid in the Blue Room at Ibrox Stadium. Maurice Johnston became the club's first high- profile Roman Catholic signing. For some first-hand witnesses, the emergence of Elvis Presley astride Shergar from an ante-room would have been more believable than what they had just witnessed.
It was a cataclysmic statement of intent and bravado from Graeme Souness, the man who revolutionised a club and, while he was at it, a city riven by a deep and centuries-old sectarian chasm. That Souness had snatched Johnston in contentious circumstances from Celtic merely added kerosene to an incendiary and indignant public, on both sides of the historic divide.See the full content of this document
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Two Sidess One Story the Day Graeme Souness Broke with Tradition to Sign Maurice Johnston
Johnston's Road to Damascus has long been etched in Scottish football folklore and infamy. Two decades on it remains the seminal moment: the day a flame-haired centre forward of Roman Catholic faith rejected the chance to re-sign for Celtic - the club having only weeks earlier proclaimed the return of the prodigal son - to join their sworn rivals Rangers, a team that ...
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