Burns On Bigotry We Are All Fed Up Talking About It, Fed Up Listening to It, Fed Up Living in It We Are All Fed Up Talking About It, Fed Up Listening to It, Fed Up Living in It Celtic the Cast May Be Different but for Tommy Burns Too Much of the Unsavoury Side of the Old Firm Derby Remains the Same Since He Last Faced Walter Smith's Rangers. Michael Grant Reports

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TEN years have passed since Tommy Burns and Walter Smith last shook hands and took their seats in opposing dug-outs for an Old Firm game. Time has weathered the pair of them since then. Both have gone through the indignity of being sacked, Burns has had his health to worry about and each is greyer up top than they were when they faced each other at Parkhead on March 16, 1997.

Neither is likely to forget what happened that afternoon. It was an ugly day which epitomised much of what draws people in, and repels many others, from Glasgow's notorious derby.

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Burns On Bigotry We Are All Fed Up Talking About It, Fed Up Listening to It, Fed Up Living in It We Are All Fed Up Talking About It, Fed Up Listening to It, Fed Up Living in It Celtic the Cast May Be Different but for Tommy Burns Too Much of the Unsavoury Side of the Old Firm Derby Remains the Same Since He Last Faced Walter Smith's Rangers. Michael Grant Reports

There were two red cards, a sinister feud between Paolo di Canio and Ian Ferguson and a celebration in which the Rangers players, having won 1-0 again at Parkhead as they always seemed to in those days, infuriated the home supporters by marking their imminent ninth consecutive ...

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