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Operation Tango On the last weekend of the 2008/09 SPL season both teams had a chance of winning the title but Celtic had to win at home to Hearts FC and hope that Rangers did not win away to Dundee United FC. With around 20 minutes gone Rangers were 1-0 up and Celtic were drawing 0-0 when a load roar went around Celtic Park with Celtic fans (and Celtic coach Neil Lennon and player Paul Hartley) believing that Dundee United had equalised against Rangers, who they also thought had a player sent off. This was soon proved to be no more than 'misinformation' as there had been no goal for Dundee United and Rangers went on to win 3-0 and claim their 52nd League title. After the event it came to light that the reason that the Celtic fans had thought that Dundee United had scored was down to a prank codenamed 'Operation Tango' which had been thought up by a fan of Rangers and hatched on various fan websites, most notably followfollow.com. The Rangers fans who took part in the prank were all to send a text message to a Celtic supporting friend who they knew would be at Celtic Park at the same time, spreading false hope around the 60,000 Celtic support. The incident has been immortalised as 'Operation Tango' and the video of the incident has received hundreds of thousands of views.

Posted by Ibrox Loyal on Thursday, July 28, 2016

Never ever knew about this, dunno how to post the video that was linked but the plan seemed to work quite well! 

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Amongst many other things what was always better about RM v FF was that every newcomer who dared post wasn't greeted by the "you're a tim" welcome resulting in thread after thread turning into a debates about whether some newbie is a beggar....it's getting worse on here.....get a grip lads, because the guy missed "tango" that doesn't mean he is a yahoo ffs.

Granted it's surprising it was missed as it was quite simply brilliant.

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