For a century Glasgow’s two football giants have maintained near complete domination of Scotland’s game. Of 111 national championships, Rangers or Celtic were crowned a staggering 94 times. Of the mere 17 titles won by other clubs the most recent was 24 years ago. The level of hegemony has made ridiculous any notion of Scottish football as a competitive pursuit. With the rest merely making up the numbers, the two clubs with mass support are sustained purely by the intensity of their relationship to each other; a rivalry based on endless competition for sporting supremacy and steeped in religious, nationalistic and ethnic tribalism of a society divided into two communities. Continue reading →