Preview: Troubled times for Old Firm rivals, Celtic and Rangers

Scottish League Cup semi-final

There is nothing like the old times. When the present is so bad, the past is always a good place to turn. And turn Rangers fans gladly did last Sunday afternoon.

The occasion may have been in the name of charity — a benefit match at Ibrox for former favourite Fernando Ricksen, now crippled with motor-neurone disease — but the afternoon of nostalgia came as sweet relief to those in the stands.