# Ep 3494: Old School Old Firm, Hell Ball, Brother Turns Against Brother - 09/03/26

An episode of [The Second Captains Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/647893016), 9 Mar 2026, 57 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/627a2e8f84f3d50012cf11fb/e/69aeed0bb58ea3074db6cf37/media.mp3

Rangers and Celtic timed their run well, staging a chaotic Scottish Cup quarter-final heightened by some old-school “disgraceful scenes” on an FA Cup weekend to finally get some overdue coverage on here. But are Old Firm riots as stirring as they used to be? The archive audio suggests otherwise. But - as we bemoan the violence crackling everywhere in the air, what about journalist-on-journalist violence - or journalist-on-influencer, or ant-on-elephant, or whatever you would call the astonishing attack launched by one of the people in this studio on the world’s most famous football reporter? Ken explains why he was wielding his tiny knife Tom English was at Ibrox to see the Cup quarter-final between Rangers and Celtic, and shares his impressions of the Day of Shame (plus a few thoughts on Scottish rugby’s Day of Pride). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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