CELTIC have had the upper hand over Rangers in this season’s encounters, but the teams couldn’t be separated when they clashed at Parkhead in 2002…

GRAEME MAXWELL (The East End) – Please give details of the 3-3 draw between Celtic and Rangers when Martin O’Neill was Celtic manager.

An undoubted classic, the first Old Firm match of the 2002-03 season was a thrilling back and forth encounter that enthralled viewers north and south of the border as, in a rarity, the game was being shown on terrestrial television throughout the country.

59,027 watched Rangers draw first blood after just five minutes, when Rab Douglas somehow allowed a fairly straightforward long range strike from Mikel Arteta to squirm through his hands.

The Gers lead would last until the 39th minute when Momo Sylla swung a pacey cross toward Henrik Larsson in the Rangers box.

Though the ball was behind him, the Swede was able to control the ball with his right foot with his back to goal, before swinging a left-footed volley in to the top corner for a remarkable equaliser.

Larsson then gave Celtic the lead eight minutes after the restart when he powerfully headed home from a Stan Petrov corner.

Just one minute later, however, Ronald de Boer equalised with a flying header following some excellent play from Neil McCann.

With 15 minutes remaining, Rangers retook the lead when Douglas spilled an Arthur Numan shot straight to Shota Arveladze, but just three minutes later, Chris Sutton volleyed home an equaliser from close range following what Arthur Montford might have called a stramash.

Celtic: Douglas, Sylla (Agathe, 59), Valgaeren, Laursen, Balde, Thompson, Lambert (Maloney, 77), Lennon, Petrov (Hartson, 74), Sutton, Larsson.

Rangers: Klos, Ricksen, Moore (Konterman, 45), Amoruso, Numan, Ferguson, de Boer (Cannigia, 84), Ross, Arteta, Arveladze, Lovenkrands (McCann, 50).

SEAN DOUGERTY (Paisley) – Can you tell me which international match has yielded the most amount of Scotland debuts?

That would be the very first international match played against England in 1872, in which all 11 players made their debut!

Aside from that, there were four internationals played between 1885 and 1891 in which 10 of the starting 11 were debutants.

In addition, nine of the starting 11 who faced Belgium in a friendly at Hampden in January 1946 were technically debutants, though this was due to official internationals having been suspended during the war, with several of the debutants having already represented Scotland in wartime internationals.

In more recent times, Berti Vogts twice handed debuts to seven players in friendly internationals, away to Poland in April 2001, and a Pittodrie defeat to Nigeria in April 2002, though on both occasions three of the seven came off the bench.

Craig Levein also handed debuts to seven players in another Pittodrie friendly in November 2010, this time against the Faroe Islands, though this included five substitutes.