bilkobear

I don't think it ever was as simple as that.
If you want to go down the road of proportional representation, then Celtc would today mostly be a Protestant club in much the same way that Hibernian are.
Simple demographics would have insisted upon such a development.
However, Celtc at every level of employment for all of their existence have totally turned proportional representation on its head.
As for Rangers, we signed RC's freely more or less until three things kicked in.
One was the success of Celtc and the aspirations of young Catholics who were good enough to play for Rangers wanting only instead to play for Celtc, the second was RC schools separating them in their football development and the third was the Great War where the 1916 Easter Rising was seen as a betrayal and caused a rift that wasn't easily mended between the Roman Catholic Irish in Scotland and the host Protestant population.
In the end Rangers had no need to waste time upon chasing after good footballers from what was a very small part of the population.
This evolved into no RC's in the Rangers side.

I don't think it ever was as simple as that.
If you want to go down the road of proportional representation, then Celtc would today mostly be a Protestant club in much the same way that Hibernian are.
Simple demographics would have insisted upon such a development.
However, Celtc at every level of employment for all of their existence have totally turned proportional representation on its head.
As for Rangers, we signed RC's freely more or less until three things kicked in.
One was the success of Celtc and the aspirations of young Catholics who were good enough to play for Rangers wanting only instead to play for Celtc, the second was RC schools separating them in their football development and the third was the Great War where the 1916 Easter Rising was seen as a betrayal and caused a rift that wasn't easily mended between the Roman Catholic Irish in Scotland and the host Protestant population.
In the end Rangers had no need to waste time upon chasing after good footballers from what was a very small part of the population.
This evolved into no RC's in the Rangers side.

I don't think it ever was as simple as that.
If you want to go down the road of proportional representation, then Celtc would today mostly be a Protestant club in much the same way that Hibernian are.
Simple demographics would have insisted upon such a development.
However, Celtc at every level of employment for all of their existence have totally turned proportional representation on its head.
As for Rangers, we signed RC's freely more or less until three things kicked in.
One was the success of Celtc and the aspirations of young Catholics who were good enough to play for Rangers wanting only instead to play for Celtc, the second was RC schools separating them in their football development and the third was the Great War where the 1916 Easter Rising was seen as a betrayal and caused a rift that wasn't easily mended between the Roman Catholic Irish in Scotland and the host Protestant population.
In the end Rangers had no need to waste time upon chasing after good footballers from what was a very small part of the population.
This evolved into no RC's in the Rangers side.

I don't think it ever was as simple as that.
If you want to go down the road of proportional representation, then Celtc would today mostly be a Protestant club in much the same way that Hibernian are.
Simple demographics would have insisted upon such a development.
However, Celtc at every level of employment for all of their existence have totally turned proportional representation on its head.
As for Rangers, we signed RC's freely more or less until three things kicked in.
One was the success of Celtc and the aspirations of young Catholics who were good enough to play for Rangers wanting only instead to play for Celtc, the second was RC schools separating them in their football development and the third was the Great War where the 1916 Easter Rising was seen as a betrayal and caused a rift that wasn't easily mended between the Roman Catholic Irish in Scotland and the host Protestant population.
In the end Rangers had no need to waste time upon chasing after good footballers from what was a very small part of the population.
This evolved into no RC's in the Rangers side.

I don't think it ever was as simple as that.
If you want to go down the road of proportional representation, then Celtc would today mostly be a Protestant club in much the same way that Hibernian are.
Simple demographics would have insisted upon such a development.
However, Celtc at every level of employment for all of their existence have totally turned proportional representation on its head.
As for Rangers, we signed RC's freely more or less until three things kicked in.
One was the success of Celtc and the aspirations of young Catholics who were good enough to play for Rangers wanting only instead to play for Celtc, the second was RC schools separating them in their football development and the third was the Great War where the 1916 Easter Rising was seen as a betrayal and caused a rift that wasn't easily mended between the Roman Catholic Irish in Scotland and the host Protestant population.
In the end Rangers had no need to waste time upon chasing after good footballers from what was a very small part of the population.
This evolved into no RC's in the Rangers side.

I remember reading an article by Greigy in a really old playing for Rangers book and he said one of the ways we beat Bayern in 72 was by pressurising Beckenbaur into making mistakes but he said you could never do that with Bobby Moore because he was completely flawless