{"id":836,"date":"2010-02-28T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/f23562f0c1b742599b0a5e0f7e75f348#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-02-28T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:10:51","slug":"please-dont-mention-the-football-old-firm-2010-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/please-dont-mention-the-football-old-firm-2010-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don&#8217;t mention the football: Old Firm 2010, 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change the names, and this is 1994 all over again. Lou Macari, poor Tommy Burns, Charlie Nicholas, Big Pierre van Hooijdonk, John Collins, and even Tony Mobray.  With Hugh Dallas keeping it on track. Huns sit back, Celts attack but don&#039;t have the personnel to keep it up.  A dodgy call or two, and that&#039;s an old firm match.  Bah.   &quot;Rangers appeared content to sit deep and hit Celtic on the break &#8230; The visitors were reduced to 10 men with 66 minutes gone when _____ received a straight red after he and ____ (Basile Boli?) clashed, but it looked a harsh decision as the Rangers man tumbled to the ground.  _____&#039;s dismissal knocked Celtic off their stride and Rangers looked to capitalise on their numerical advantage. Rangers, who move 10 points ahead with a game in hand, will believe the victory all but secures their second successive title. &quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change the names, and this is 1994 all over again. Lou Macari, poor Tommy Burns, Charlie Nicholas, Big Pierre van Hooijdonk, John Collins, and even Tony Mobray.  With Hugh Dallas keeping it on track. Huns sit back, Celts attack but don&#039;t have the personnel to keep it up.  A dodgy call or two, and that&#039;s an old firm match.  Bah.   &quot;Rangers appeared content to sit deep and hit Celtic on the break &#8230; The visitors were reduced to 10 men with 66 minutes gone when _____ received a straight red after he and ____ (Basile Boli?) clashed, but it looked a harsh decision as the Rangers man tumbled to the ground.  _____&#039;s dismissal knocked Celtic off their stride and Rangers looked to capitalise on their numerical advantage. Rangers, who move 10 points ahead with a game in hand, will believe the victory all but secures their second successive title. &quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/please-dont-mention-the-football-old-firm-2010-1\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/crikey-british-fascists-membership-list-leaked\/","url_meta":{"origin":836,"position":0},"title":"Crikey! 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