Had the misfortune to be in the Rangers end for a Celtic v Rangers game. The only ticket I could get was with 3 of my brothers in law who were bears. The game ended 1-1. When Rangers scored everyone around were jumping and falling everywhere and I stood still. I found about £25 on the ground that had fallen out of bears’ pockets so I had a profitable afternoon 😂

My dad would put me behind the goals and tell me yo stay there, he'll be back at full time then wandered into the jungle

Great for atmosphere. Terrible for everything else.

Watched games sitting on my dad's shoulders. Grown men p!ssing where they stood. Mum once stood on beer cans so she could see

I remember puddles of pash and beers cans, mid 70s my aulder cousins used to take me and pretty much abandon me to my own devices, there were always dozens of similar "jungle orphans" cutting about and unless we were right down the front we could only see small snippets of the games

Happy days to be fair

comment by MaHeed'sNippin aka I’m the competent Wullie Collum (U3633)
posted 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Had the misfortune to be in the Rangers end for a Celtic v Rangers game. The only ticket I could get was with 3 of my brothers in law who were bears. The game ended 1-1. When Rangers scored everyone around were jumping and falling everywhere and I stood still. I found about £25 on the ground that had fallen out of bears’ pockets so I had a profitable afternoon 😂
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That's a lot of florins, tanners and half crowns

This has an 80s vibe about it https://twitter.com/TheRyanMcGinlay/status/1658028984846766080?t=SzZSh6Pq2HrsZncs_oRlVg&s=19

We sit in the north stand roughly where we used to stand in the jungle. Fortunate enough that the folk round about us in the jungle were fairly sound, and the folk about us now in the north stand are alright as well.

comment by Insufferable-Piffle, just in case, I'm sorry! (U4388)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I remember puddles of pash and beers cans
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I remember innovative charity folks collecting the cans after the games for recycling - for money rather than any green credentials. UK's first bottle bank didn't appear until 1977.

ICT now selling tickets for the final. They are only selling west stand and south stand so I'd say we are getting 35k ish

comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 1 minute ago
ICT now selling tickets for the final. They are only selling west stand and south stand so I'd say we are getting 35k ish
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They were selling them last week. Season ticket holders can get up to 8 tickets.

comment by GTB, moon howling nonsense (U14017)
posted 15 minutes ago
This has an 80s vibe about it https://twitter.com/TheRyanMcGinlay/status/1658028984846766080?t=SzZSh6Pq2HrsZncs_oRlVg&s=19
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Boggin'.

The guy posting below making the common mistake of mixing up a maze and a labyrinth.

comment by Changing my name from My POV - but not decided... (U10636)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 1 minute ago
ICT now selling tickets for the final. They are only selling west stand and south stand so I'd say we are getting 35k ish
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They were selling them last week. Season ticket holders can get up to 8 tickets.
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Not suprised they will want to make it a family day and fill as many seats as they can. Realitically they'll bring 10k, maybe slightly more

I never got a ticket for the semi and out of all of the ballots since it had to go to ballot I have missed out on 3 finals including the treble final with Rogic goal (thankfully got to go to one of the others) so I better get one for this

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 43 minutes ago
comment by MaHeed'sNippin aka I’m the competent Wullie Collum (U3633)
posted 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Had the misfortune to be in the Rangers end for a Celtic v Rangers game. The only ticket I could get was with 3 of my brothers in law who were bears. The game ended 1-1. When Rangers scored everyone around were jumping and falling everywhere and I stood still. I found about £25 on the ground that had fallen out of bears’ pockets so I had a profitable afternoon 😂
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That's a lot of florins, tanners and half crowns
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🤣🤣🤣

Loved the jungle - started going in 78 as a 16 year old and headed straight to the middle half way up - was mental at times. When I got a bit older would go to the end we were shooting in and at halftime time cut through the jungle to head to the other end.

I remember Arthur Montford and Archie McPherson would walk a plank above the jungle to access the commentary gantry - if it was Arthur the crowd would sing ‘one Archie McPherson, there’s only one ….’ and vice versa 😀

I worked in Markinch co-op for first job and on a Saturday morning I delivered meat from the butchers to the posh folk of the village on a push bike with a basket. A wee Italian gentleman called mr Malloko of ‘Malloko’s cafe’ would ask me where I was heading to watch Celtic on the train from Markinch as it was a half day on a sat and he would give me a pound note tip (huge amount at the time) - 80p to get into the game. He was an absolute gem of a man.

Think rangers end held 22,500 - worst sight in the world - that split second silence before their end erupted after a goal 😕😂

Think rangers end held 22,500 - worst sight in the world - that split second silence before their end erupted after a goal

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Worst silence in the world

Yup that as well !

Me and a pal would challenge each other to ‘start a song’ in the jungle was great when it happened.

I was at Glasgow Uni and I used to pay in to stand in the Jungle from the 1987-88 season to 1991. Used to be about 3 quid to get in (!), I bet I was the only English guy standing on his own in there. Saved money by walking to the ground from St Enoch and back

comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Think rangers end held 22,500 - worst sight in the world - that split second silence before their end erupted after a goal

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Worst silence in the world
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What, worse than the silence you get from the missus on the morning after a sesh? The silence and the disgusted look that says 'I should have listened to my mother'? The silence before she regales you with what you said and did or tried to do when you came in last night and the utter contempt that she holds you in and the shame you have brought on the family even if they were all none the wiser except her? And all the time you're thinking to yourself, 'shut it ya boot, it's not as though rangers have scored' and one more verbal degradation and you are gonna blurt that out then give her a hand with the suitcases?

glad you got that off yer chest silver!

Sorry - apart from that one then !

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 46 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Think rangers end held 22,500 - worst sight in the world - that split second silence before their end erupted after a goal

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Worst silence in the world
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What, worse than the silence you get from the missus on the morning after a sesh? The silence and the disgusted look that says 'I should have listened to my mother'? The silence before she regales you with what you said and did or tried to do when you came in last night and the utter contempt that she holds you in and the shame you have brought on the family even if they were all none the wiser except her? And all the time you're thinking to yourself, 'shut it ya boot, it's not as though rangers have scored' and one more verbal degradation and you are gonna blurt that out then give her a hand with the suitcases?


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least you get that after a sesh.

thats just my day mate

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Think rangers end held 22,500 - worst sight in the world - that split second silence before their end erupted after a goal

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Worst silence in the world
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What, worse than the silence you get from the missus on the morning after a sesh? The silence and the disgusted look that says 'I should have listened to my mother'? The silence before she regales you with what you said and did or tried to do when you came in last night and the utter contempt that she holds you in and the shame you have brought on the family even if they were all none the wiser except her? And all the time you're thinking to yourself, 'shut it ya boot, it's not as though rangers have scored' and one more verbal degradation and you are gonna blurt that out then give her a hand with the suitcases?


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Excellent article.

We were Celtic End Jungle for years.

Moved towards the east pylon Celtic End 1970's as we 'matured'.

Fav memory the film cameras were above the Jungle. TV guys had to

climb up a ladder and crawl across a shaky gantry to the commentary

position. 'Weetabix' Archie McPherson made no secret of his anti Celtic

stance. He was singled out for DOB chants. Half time v Hearts he

dangled a half bottle whisky on a bit of string wheeched it away when

sumbdy was getting in grabbing distance. Absolutely hilarious. He got a

round of applause as the teams came back out.

Silver

A' been there.

Hmmm, distinct lack of bears on this one

Picture it! 1978, a young teenage boy (me) was in a scout group that were entertaining and similar scout group from Norway. One week of camp, one week home hospitality. The guy lodging with me wanted to see a football match and as dumb luck would have it, the only game in Glasgow that Saturday was Celtic v Dundee United. So wandered on down to the east end and around the environs and found some gates with cheaper entry, that'll do and there we were in the jungle, the usual pashing down folks legs etc going on then in the second half ( I have absolutely no recollection of the game itself) presumably United scored, so a whisky bottle flies over our heads but does not make it to the pitch and instead clunks some poor unsuspecting on the noggin near the front. Ten seconds later and same whisky bottle is then hurled backwards from roughly whence it came. Needless to say a bit of a rammy ensued and my Norwegian friend and I decided that we had got a sufficient taste of a Scottish football match and departed

Sorry about that Schiz.

Dunno what came over me.