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Post by Waverley on Dec 31, 2012 19:20:28 GMT 1
I guess very few of us could've imagined that the crisis that saw The Rangers demoted by the bigots of the SPL and SFA to the Scottish Third Division would create another bit of Rangers history with the re-introduction of the Oldest Football Derby Game In The World. From page 2 And Queen`s Park v Rangers is unquestionably the world`s oldest derby in senior football played between amateur and professional teams. Rangers historians list that earlier friendly with Queen`s on November 20 1875 was not in organised competition. It was a match in aid of the Bridgeton fire fund. As a newspaper reported, on Friday 12th November, the greatest fire ever in Glasgow had resulted in the destruction of two factories in Bridgeton. A spinning mill and a weaving factory in Mill Street had burned down. Around 1,300 people, mainly women and girls, had been thrown out of employment and rendered destitute. Perhaps that fund match was a forerunner of the Merchant`s Charity Cup. Interestingly enough I new of this fire fund but could not find a date for it amongst my Rangers records or books but thanks to the programme on Saturday I managed to find these details. ;D
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Post by Waverley on Dec 31, 2012 19:44:40 GMT 1
Seemingly The Rangers who were founded in 1872 and played their first games in Bridgeton on the Flesher's Haugh on the Glasgow Green had approached Queen's Park several times since their formation in May 1872 to play them in a friendly match. However, the Jolly Old Queen's , who were founded in July 1867, would have nothing to do with these young lads who played in Light Blue as they saw them basically as upstarts from the east end and not in the same class as the Queen's Park club.
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