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Sat 05 May 2001Green first and foremost
There will be no green jerseys on Hampden Park's turf today. The heroes or villains will be called Libbra and Zitelli rather than Breslin or Callaghan.
Yet the Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Hibernian in Glasgow is only the latest episode in a century-old battle of the greens between Scotland's two leading Irish clubs. And their particular rivalry, both older and less renowned (or notorious) than Celtic's with Rangers, represents also two different paths by which post-Famine immigrant communities both changed and adapted to Scottish society.
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