Barry Ferguson folds under questioning when asked about Celtic vs Rangers League Cup final

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Celtic fans have got a lot to look forward to this season as the club currently battles on three fronts in three separate tournaments.

Top of the Scottish Premiership table and unbeaten, it looks like it’s going to take a lot to stop Celtic from retaining their title for the fourth year in a row.

Sitting 15th in the Champions League group stage table, Brendan Rodgers also has Celtic on course to qualify for the play-off places as well.

And next month, Celtic will face Rangers in the League Cup final where both teams can look forward to trying to win the first piece of silverware of the season.

Except Barry Ferguson isn’t looking forward to it. Anything but. Rob McLean fired a series of questions to the former Rangers skipper about the upcoming game when Ferguson admitted that the thought of the tie is a ‘worry’.

Barry Ferguson admits he’s worried about Rangers facing Celtic in League Cup final

Ferguson told The Go Radio Football Show, “He’s [Philippe Clement] got big decisions coming up in the next three or four weeks because it’s a massive three or four weeks for Rangers. You can’t fall any further behind in the league. And obviously, in four weeks time, you’ve got the big one, the Cup final.

McLean: “Do you worry about that game?”

Ferguson: “Yes, but I’m not gonna let myself worry until about three weeks down the line.”

McLean: “Is it a bit early to worry?”

Ferguson: “Yeah, it’s a bit early for me to worry. I just think we need to get a consistent team leading up to that.”

McLean: “Do you think that will happen?”

Ferguson: “I would like to think it may happen. It has to happen because you have to go into this game and win it because you’ve not beaten Celtic for a long time.

McLean: “Is that League Cup final bigger than anything else?”

Ferguson: “You look at the lead up to the cup final. Celtic play Zagreb on Tuesday and Rangers play Tottenham on Thursday at Ibrox.

“For me, there’s only one eye that week and that’s on the cup final.”

Every domestic cup final where Celtic have broken Rangers’ hearts since 1980

Celtic are Scotland’s most successful club and have, at some stage or another, beat Rangers in either a League Cup final or Scottish Cup final.

So here is every final Celtic have beaten the Ibrox club since 1980.

Scottish Cup

• 10.05.1980: Celtic 1 v 0 Rangers. AET. A George McCluskey 107th-minute goal sinks the Ibrox club.
• 20.05.1989: Celtic 1 v 0 Rangers. Joe Miller with the infamous Roy Aitken throw-in goal.
• 25.05.2024: Celtic 1 v 0 Rangers. Adam Idah with this beauty to seal the double for Brendan Rodgers:

Scottish League Cup

• 04.12.1982: Celtic 2 v 1 Rangers. Charlie Nicolas and Murdo McLeod consign the Ibrox club to defeat.
• 15.03.2009: Celtic 2 v 0 Rangers. AET. Darren O’Dea and Aiden McGeady win the first cup of the treble for Martin O’Neill.
• 08.12.2019: Rangers 0 v 1 Celtic. Christopher Jullien’s superb goal had Ryan Jack in tears at the full time whistle.
• 26.02.2023: Rangers 1 v 2 Celtic. A Kyogo double sends Rangers back to Ibrox empty handed.

The Celtic fans will be hoping for more of the same as the Bhoys face Rangers at Hampden on the 15th of December.