On This Day in 2002, Martin O’Neill’s Celtic took his team to face Graeme Souness’ Blackburn Rovers. After the 1-0 game at Celtic Park in the first-leg, Souness conducted O’Neill’s team talk by saying that the English Premiership were ‘men against boys’ against Celtic as a single goal from Henrik Larsson.
20 years ago today, Blackburn 0:2 Celtic. (0:3 agg)
Larsson and Sutton. @chris_sutton73
“Men Against Boys” indeed. pic.twitter.com/SYAyhdw5aM
— Li’l Ze (@LilZe_7) November 14, 2022
Henrik Larsson and Chris Sutton capped a famous win as Rovers were out-fought, out-played and out-sang by Celtic. It would be a result that pushed Celtic towards Seville and one that would show Souness up for being a loud mouth yet again.
Celtic: Douglas, Valgaeren, Balde, Laursen, Agathe, Lennon, Petrov, Sutton, Guppy, Larsson, Hartson.
Subs: Sylla, Thompson, Fernandez, Lambert, Maloney, Crainey, Gould.
Blackburn: Friedel, Curtis, Short, Johansson, Neill, Thompson, Tugay, Dunn, Duff, Yorke, Cole.
Subs: Todd, Jansen, Grabbi, Gillespie, Ostenstad, Douglas, Kelly.
