Suggestions that Rangers broke tradition when they failed to print the name of Celtic on their official League Cup Final kit at Hampden have been debunked.
After the Ibrox side fell to a 2-1 defeat at Hampden, the Express ran a story about Rangers’ decision not to include Celtic’s name on their Cup Final jerseys.
Explicitly, the report claims Rangers “refused” to print their Old Firm rivals’ name on the sacred blue jersey to “avoid” having the word Celtic on the kit.
The report claims that Rangers “broke the cup final convention” to avoid printing Celtic on their shirt, with our Old Firm rivals including the word Rangers on their own kit.
Rangers Celtic kit claim debunked
The claim has been debunked by leading kit history Twitter account Museum of Jerseys, who branded the notion as an example of the Mandela Effect.
This means it is an example of “collective false memory”, where society collectively remembers something as being distinctly different from the reality for any manner of reasons.
The account would then take aim at the tabloid media, calling the claims “slavish” and suggesting their is “no convention” for domestic cup finals.
Moreover, the account also gave several Celtic examples, with the Parkhead side not including the opposition’s name on their kit as recently as 2019.
“It’s been weird to see the reaction to Rangers seemingly breaking a sacred tradition by not having Celtic’s name on their commemorative text last Sunday,” wrote the Twitter account.
“As recently as 2019, Celtic went without their opponent’s name.
“This is not an anti-Celtic rant but the non-researched coverage, swallowing of same and slavish copying sum up what’s wrong with modern media.
“There’s no convention for domestic finals – some teams put a lot of details and some put very few. Neither is more right or wrong.
“For European finals, there is a prescribed format and that’s fine too.
“But let’s not all undergo some strange Mandela Effect for the sake of a lazy narrative.
“Rangers don’t seem to ever do it.
“You may not agree with that, but it’s not like they ignored a set-in-stone protocol on Sunday.”
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