Sky Sports’ chief football commentator, Martin Tyler, labelled Rangers “a new club” while commentating for US audiences during Celtic’s 5-0 thumping of Astana in the first leg of their play-off at Parkhead.
During the second-half, 71-year-old Tyler made reference to “the demise of the old Rangers.”
In full, he said during the Fox Sport broadcast: “The history of Scottish football as you know it.
Haha! Ask Martin Tyler! Even he says Rangers are a new club on the US broadcast of Celtic v Astana! pic.twitter.com/dNDxKryUeQ
— MB is Green & White (@MBBawdeep) August 17, 2017
“The demise of the old Rangers and the demotion to start again as a new club and finally got themselves back to make the Old Firm games, which were badly missed.”
One Twitter user filmed the moment and posted it onto the site which unsurprisingly, ignited a debate among footie fans.
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It quickly racked up close to 1,000 reactions with many Celtic fans cheering the pundit.
The high-point of the game came when, with two minutes remaining, Leigh Griffiths took the score to 5-0 with a low deflected drive to surely secure Champions League football again as the fans lapped up the final minutes.
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