Wed 11 February 2026 7:10, UK

Anticipation is building ahead of Rangers’ Scottish Cup tie at home to bitter rivals Celtic.

Rangers thumped Queen’s Park 8-0 in the last 16 of the Scottish Cup on Sunday to set up a mouth-watering tie with Celtic, who edged past Dundee a day prior.

Before Rangers’ Scottish Premiership trip to Motherwell on Wednesday night, talk has already turned to their Celtic encounter at Ibrox on 7 March.

Celtic are set for a reduced ticket allocation at Rangers, who will also host Martin O’Neill’s side six days prior in the league.

After caretaker boss O’Neill suggested that Celtic should get a bigger allocation for this upcoming Old Firm fixture on their rivals’ home turf, more have weighed in on this matter.

Scottish Cup rules state that away teams have the right to claim up to 20 per cent of tickets, which equates to approximately 10,000 supporters at Ibrox.

Prior to May 2018, Celtic fans traditionally took around 7,500 fans but that was slashed to 1,000 nearly eight years ago.

For a time, no away fans attended Old Firm games before last season, allocations of around five...