Rangers 2 - Celtic 1 - League Cup Final 2003

John Hartson missed a last minute penalty as Rangers won the League Cup. Lorenzo Amoruso challenged Bobo Balde at the edge of the box and when the Celtic defender fell over, Kenny Clark gave Hartson the chance to take the match into extra-time. Thankfully, Hartson put the ball wide and goals from Claudio Caniggia and Peter Lovenkrands were enough for the win. Henrik Larsson had made it 2-1 with 30 minutes remaining but Celtic, who had Neil Lennon sent off after two red card offences in two minutes, could not find another goal.

[@tramlad2]

Peter the great, Lovenkrands always lifted his game against that mob, brilliant support again they were superb that day

[@ip9111]

People are underestimating Mol's turn for Lovenkrands goal, it was a thing of beauty!

[@johnbarber1948]

PredaKing what a player he was.

[@tramlad2]

Claudia Cannigia was an exceptional player, we should have kept him for another season , loved his passion

[@markboag6415]

I can hardly believe this final is almost 20 years ago. That season was truly unbelievable. Its easy to forget that going into that final Rangers were chasing a treble and Celtic were chasing the quadruple, in the middle of March! In fact, in the 7 days after this final, Celtic went on to beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield, then the following Sunday lost 1-0 to my team, Inverness in the Scottish Cup. In the space of a week, Celtic had lost the chance to win a quadruple and then a treble, which I think was a massive psychological boost for Rangers for the run in.

[@MOTHtbh]

Used to love the confrontations each game between Thompson and Ricksen, Moore and Amoruso against Larsson and Hartson/Sutton, Balde against Mols. I can still vividly remember the pain I felt when Hartson put that penalty wide. Then just a few days later it was all forgotten after a truly amazing display at Anfield and Hartson lashing in a stunning winner. I think both sides of the Celtic/Rangers divide would love to see a return to the abilty of those teams really.

[@MrUnstoppable69]

I remember just catching the end of this game. Turning the TV on just in time to see Hartson putting his penalty wide. Good times

[@SlothyWoffy]

Oh that's weird. It was the exact same for me. I was gutted I missed the majority of this game. Remember it vividly.

[@christophergallagher3845]

Weird I remember turning it on and seeing Hartsons goal ruled offside when he was 2 yards onside

[@irishrebel1360]

If only var or fair officials existed then oh wait How's things going now ya cunts ? Hh

[@JohnlunstramIsshitterthanMorri]

Light years off 😂

[@SonnyL]

Klos, Ricksen, Moore, Amoruso, Bonnissel, Cannigia, Ferguson, Areta, Lovenkrands, De Boer, Mols. Great team and some very good footballers there who knew how to play football. No Surrender! Rangers Till I Die...

[@cfcliamk]

this side went in to midweek and beat liverpool 2-0 at anfield. my 1st celtic game. was brilliant back then. both sides had good teams

[@erniescullion8452]

Your a positive Fan of football. I see that with your words.Both of these had very Good passing.EACH OF THESE TWO does respect each other as Clubs

[@erniescullion8452]

Im Liverpool fan but im a fan of FOOTBALL and FAIRNESS and Celtic beat Liverpool fair and Square. This match was full on fierce.

[@aydencaldwell2472]

Celebrate this then have the cheek to mon about julliens offside goal the other day

[@MessianicChristianFollowship86]

RIP Ricksen from a hibs fan ✌🏅⚽️

[@JohnSmith-qq8ok]

And from a leeds fan. So sad.

[@michaeljamesgilfedder8103]

Celtic fan here. Cracking game, both sides had some great players. Hartson's goal should have stood, terrible decision by linesman, although to be fair Rangers should have had a penalty. Peace and unity to all Celtic and Rangers fans. Let's end bigotry and sectarianism.

[@tramlad2]

The green and white cloggers, tried to kick us off the park that day...one class player in Larrson

[@omalone1169]

Is tjis where rangers keeper had an epic game. Doblas

[@goodwin9114]

Mad to think that in the modern 2024 game that VAR would have looked at that offside goal. Had an on field review and still gave it as offside 😂

[@MOTHtbh]

Used to bloody love the Old Firm games back in these days. Proper battles between players of decent quality. Eck did fantastically for Rangers during this period, his decision to play a front three system dumbfounded MON for a good season and a half until he reverted celtic to a back four.

[@kaziam4318]

You could mistake this video quality for 1980

[@MOTHtbh]

Nope, we drew 1-1 against Liverpool before this game. The return leg at Anfield followed this match. I still vividly remember Hartson starting his interview with the BBC after his stunning goal at Anfield with the sentence 'Well as you know... I missed an important penalty on Sunday..'

[@Div4Dante]

Caniggia was world class in his prime

[@RundUmDenSVNiederwerth]

1-0 Claudio Caniggia (23 min) 2-0 Peter Løvenkrands (35 min) 2-1 Henrik Larsson (57 min)

[@mazyrun09]

Back in the day …no moaning about songs . Or refs . Just two of Glesgas biggest teams goin at each other 🟥⬜️🟦

[@pierjumpmental]

Did you see the hand ball in the box and the numerous assaults by Balde that went unpunished. At least 2 penalties should have gone Rangers way and didn't.

[@bobSCOTT99]

Part of 1 completing the treble

[@Gallusinsky]

Put the awful comments aside, ignore the ill divide of the old firm and the shitty politics that lingers with it. As a neutral here, i have to say both of these squads shown here in this great contest at the time where simply phenomenal, great players, pure passion and excellent football. The O'neil and McLeish days where a excellent contest for all to see and watch and actually gave our game a great status to the world

[@mrmervinjminky5317]

Yeah it was great how Rangers paid for these players using EBT loans and dodgy double contracts, excellent sportsmanship!

[@Gallusinsky]

Pretty aware of that cheers for the update! And if they didn't do that shit i would of been more admirable but i'm just complimenting the squads and the quality of our game back then. Listen, everyone knows that they are bad as each other both clubs have done shitty things but all I'm just saying that it was hard not to admire the two squads during this era, that's all.

[@andrewsharp453]

Oh do stop snivelling, Mervin. Whinge, moan, girn, groan. Pathetic. Grow up.

[@crs2385]

MrMervinJMinky Toys out the pram much? lol You lot just can't help yourselves haha

[@jackdelaney4082]

Love Rangers !!

[@omalone1169]

In what 1 0 game did the rangers keeper have an epic game

[@hotmann29]

We had the great result v Liverpool the following week,2-0 and what about last sunday 3-0

[@14robisco]

typical turn by mols for the 2nd goal - brilliant!

[@andylowe5491]

Good game, better team just sneaked it, think if Hartson had sank the penalty we woulda done them in extra time but couldnt give the bears 2 goals of a start back then even if we were a better side. Took our eye of the ball with the uefa cup n ended up with nothing but what a season, fair play to rangers, was a great battle that year, every game.

[@andylowe5491]

1st time ive watched this since lol, at least Hartson sorted Liverpool out the midweek after this :)

[@andylowe5491]

Andy Lowe was there not a totally onside goal disallowed here too? not got to it yet, great battles though, great days

[@andylowe5491]

Andy Lowe 2 yards onside fuck me haha

[@omalone1169]

What minute was the penalty miss

[@grantrfc11]

great vid m8 i was at this game and wanted to see the highlights

[@1969burnsie]

Oh why oh why are there 16 dislikes???????? calvin klien select on board, OBSESSION!!!! Stick to yer own kiddie fiddlin club.

[@bobmorrice]

was this on channel 5?

[@gartnait1]

9 passes to make that first goal..quality.

[@ralphcifaretto1]

@MOTHtbh AGreed. Never ever enjoy watching a defeat to them but at least they had some proper quality then. De Boer was a brilliant player.

[@mike19821982]

What a team, What a day, Thanks for the top quality upload

[@younglinwoodloyal]

What a day first time i was there when we beat the tims

[@C-MAGs]

Gotta love that offside decision Hahahahahaha.

[@reniisgod]

7:37 - in all honesty that’s a horrendous call

[@soughnymaugh]

pmsl at oneill at 7:40

[@lauryn0599]

Oh for they days x x x

[@Shaftsus]

@yermaw145 Meanwhile Hartson is clearly onside when he scores what should be an equaliser, and he fucked up a penalty which would have gone in as the keeper guessed the wrong way. Were Celtic unlucky to lose? Yes I think so.

[@justablokepostingfunvids7137]

Absolutely shocking decision that was never offside( gers boys couldn’t wait to dive all day) out played celtic the first half but that Hartson goal gets allowed its a very different final

[@declanrodger3607]

Hi it's Brandon xxxxxx

[@BFD1989]

@Shaftsus I'm targeting the institution as I have done on many occasions, didn't you read my comment? If you've ready my page then you should have a pretty good idea what I'm all about..

[@azertyuiop32]

i see some celtic fans are up in arms because steven mcclean didnt get booked last week for leaving the field of play. talk about clutching at straws. surely they should be more worried about their team losing a 2 goal lead. you have to laugh at them. always blame everybody and everything except themselves.

[@factsonly1621]

Fernando💙💙

[@Shaftsus]

wow what a header from Larsson, that was a good goal but I'm not gonna complain, happened like 8 years ago and the refs traditionally favour Rangers in the old firms.

[@MrGustySpence]

@Shaftsus perhaps so but since the catholic church is one the richest organizations in the world should they not fund these schools themselves??????

[@hotmann29]

next big question what was the linesman doing to make that decision to knock John Hartson goal off side,we may have won only for that as we played so much better even with ten,

[@chanwinghong88836]

軒歷拿臣、湯臣、赫臣，最強些路迪年代

[@tirnaog09]

@gibric1 , yeh that Rangers team were wimps eh? Not.

[@gzz8551]

I do appreciate that it says on the screen “The Rangers”. It’s like they knew what was coming.

[@Jamie-kv9eg]

I don’t get why celtic fans use “the rangers” patter. Sevco fair enough but the rangers? we’ve always been the rangers. We call ourselves the rangers. Every league championship flag in our trophy room has “The Rangers F.C” on it.

[@garyfrew5569]

Pacific shelf 595 newco 👍🇬🇧

[@FXHEROS]

TLB still the same today.

[@azertyuiop32]

have celtic every lost a game fairly or is it always the refs fault???

[@Shaftsus]

@MrGustySpence oh :O

[@ryan16831]

Stirling Albion....that is all

[@romshc]

Us getting relegated is probably the only way you guys can win the league without cheating, not even sure about the last part...

[@sw4nny1985]

"Celtic cheated" aye right. Rangers should've had a penalty when Balde strangled Mols in the box. Also Lambert should've been off for stamp on De Boer.

[@tirnaog09]

Not another game the ref fucked up. Perfectly good Hartson goal 'mistakenly' chopped off! That game was 2-2 as far as I'm concerned.

[@SonnyL]

Also that celtic team didn't have a fucking clue how to play football, most of their goals came from set-pieces due to the brutes they had in their team. Long ball merchants that team was as well as diving merchants although back then there were a few classic OF matches. Hopefully we can meet the scum again in a domestic cup final because its been a while, atmosphere tends to be brilliant too at hampden.

[@SpazzWagon]

Bastards kicked and hacked all the way through the game becuase there just not good enough!

[@cmh9013]

THE RANGERS 🇬🇧

[@stephenmcphail9758]

Hedgi90 RFC that’s yer new name,The Rangers , A,Deen 1

[@crs2385]

Stephen McPhail....how's it a new name? The clubs full title has always been The Rangers Football Club

[@stephenmcphail9758]

CRS what I’m sayin Ye I know your called the Rangers,but I know it’s Glasgow Rangers but say in Europe your just called Rangers

[@BFD1989]

@Shaftsus Navigated completely away from the point I was trying to make. It had nothing to do with religious values whatsoever, it was the harvestation of bigotry-pure and simple. And I'm betting that the Roman Catholic schooling system wasn't the friendliest system in the WHOLE of the 20th century, what with a sex scandal running as deep as the Atlantic Ocean. The only religious value taught in those catholic schools was learning to keep your mouth shut when fondled.

[@beakster1343]

Well done rangers another trophy on the ebt suck it up

[@1gladdis]

That was never a penalty.

[@chanwinghong88836]

格拉斯哥流浪輸多贏小，有啲爆冷赢些路廸攞聯賽盃

[@ricoseim8620]

Rangers the best

[@Shaftsus]

@yermaw145 "Ugly snarling face", I'll tell you why people hate him. Not only is he a taig, but he is ginger and has those facial features that you've just described. He looks like your stereotypical Irishman, like almost a racial stereotype of one. That's not a good enough reason to send someone death threats though, and the fact that he is a Catholic plays a lot into it, but yeah there is a little more to it than most Celtic fans think, but only a little.

[@christophergallagher3845]

People are underestimating Hartsons goal that was ruled offside wrongly

[@cfcliamk]

without cheating? u see that 'offside' hartson goal haha

[@tippingnits77]

Loved watching that fat oaf hardly unable to run. So funny watching him lose running battles against anyone because such a fat arse.

[@Shaftsus]

@yermaw145 lol but seriously 2 stonewall penalties!? The first was never a handball - his arms were tucked into him so there wasn't anything he could have done to avoid contact with the ball, would have been harsh to give. And the second was a clear dive just inside the penalty area - yes there was some contact but still ridiculous theatrics from Lovenkrands, I'd say we were lucky to get away with it but it is in no way a "Stonewall" penalty lol

[@BFD1989]

@Shaftsus Yes, those protestant referees traditionally deny two stonewall penalties to Rangers before they start favouring them. Terrifyingly delusional, are the Scottish catholic faith.

[@allthewine]

What a ludicrous statement. Larsson, Hartson, Sutton, Thompson, Lennon, Balde and Lambert consistently pissed over that Rangers team. That's not to say the Rangers team was poor. They had some outstanding players but the Celtic team was worthy of respect.

[@dezzergray1891]

Why are thousands of Catholics not going to mass any more because your religion is tainted like your titles when the here were not there ps large john knew everyone knows !!!!!!!

[@BFD1989]

@Shaftsus And I've made no secret of the fact that I have a deep-seated hatred for Neil Lennon. although it has nothing to do with religion. The fact that the myth 'Neil Lennon is hated in Scotland because he is a catholic' is widely accepted outrages me. Lennon was hated by his own fans in leicester simply because of his ugly snarling face. Nothing more, nothing less. Deal with it.

[@celtdan1]

Are you serious? That offside decision is WORSE than the one that Rangers got against the Well last week. Terrible refereeing.

[@gapamu66]

thats just par for the course for referees against Celtic , but thats all changed now Agent Orange has been sacked

[@TriGGA593]

At least Celtic don't have to cheat to win their silverware.

[@crs2385]

Aye they do, they dive left right and centre

[@ryan16831]

tawt? haha you cant even spell, cant tell what team you support.

[@Shaftsus]

@yermaw145 Yeah that happened in the early 20th century, and they still have Catholic schools not only in Scotland and Ireland, but in the US, Canada etc. It's not that big a deal in those countries what's your problem with it? Surely people have a right to be raised through a schooling system that uphold their religious values - I'm betting that British schooling wasn't the friendliest system for a young Catholic in the early 20th century, he'd get the shit kicked out of him every day.

[@BFD1989]

@Shaftsus So if rangers were awarded the two stonewallers and Hartsons goal was given, and he scored the penalty...Rangers would still fairly win. Again, terrifyingly deluded.

[@cannonfodder6654]

7:37

[@SlothyWoffy]

True, but Rangers should have had at least 2 penalties

[@vilennon24]

miles onside, daylight robbery

[@tearlach45]

Celtic cheated in an Old Firm game once again. Theres only one John Hartson!

[@toneyabone]

Celtic were cheated by a Hun ref

[@FIghtingIrish87]

UP THE CIRA

[@cfcnlr]

typical hun refs yet again, john hartson eaily a few feet onside

[@Shaftsus]

@yermaw145 Ok I don't care anymore I'm not here to stick up for taigs, havent even gone to church in a while tbh....

[@Rizlao9]

celtic wur pure cheated as per back then

[@declanrodger3607]

Hi it's Brandon xxxxxx