The season’s first Old Firm derby (12.30pm KO)Get in touch! Email Michael with your thoughtsWhen my son was born a couple of years ago, I remember standing in the maternity ward at a chart on the wall as my wife and I waited to go into a room. It indicated how many babies had been born in that maternity ward that calendar year, reading exactly 160 boys, 160 girls. Of course, these numbers were equal – that’s how it works – but in my dazed, sleep-deprived state, I was still struck by the equilibrium of this small sample size, of this particular maternity ward, in this particular corner of north London.The equilibrium of the Old Firm derby may not be decided by X or Y chromosomes, but it is remarkable that the long history of this fixture, 441 matches dating back to 1890 in the Scottish League, Scottish Cup and League Cup, there have been exactly the same number of wins for both Celtic and Rangers: 169, with the two sides also playing out 103 draws.
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