Clive Tyldesley said something about Celtic live on Rangers TV and fans 'warned' him never to say it again

He was the in-house commentator for the Steven Gerrard unbeaten title winning season

Clive Tyldesley has opened up on the Celtic lesson he learned from his Rangers TV stint - after a fan made one thing clear over the Parkhead side.

He was the man who took on in-house commentating of the Light Blues during the 2020/21 campaign. With the coronavirus pandemic at a high, fans had to tune in via club channels to watch games with no fans permitted in stadiums. That campaign turned out to be a historic one for the club after they went the Scottish Premiership campaign unbeaten under Steven Gerrard and ended Celtic's hopes of claiming ten-in-a-row in the process.

Tyldesley admits it was a wonderful 18-month adventure he had while working for the Ibrox side - but he did get corrected over a key lesson when working for one of the big two in Glasgow. He spoke about providing an update over the Celtic score from a game and happened to refer to them as the 'The Hoops'. It prompted a reaction from one supporter with the commentator remembering the exact wording of his warning.

He told Four Four Two: "Rangers really wanted me – they’d done a deal to provide free coverage of all of their home games for their season ticket holders until they could go back into the stadium. I was fortunate that Rangers won every game I commentated on, I think! They went through the season unbeaten and my voice became associated with a very famous Rangers season.

"It became a wonderful 18-month adventure... although I learned that I didn’t know Glasgow football quite as well as I thought. In a commentary I try to find a different way of saying the same thing, and I was talking about a Celtic match that was happening at the same time as Rangers were playing.

"I had given the score as Celtic this, Celtic that, and I happened to say, 'The Hoops have now gone three up'. I got so much mail from Rangers fans, all quite sympathetic, but there was an element of warning… One guy said, 'They are either Celtic, or they are ‘them’.' So from that point on, Celtic were Celtic – don’t call them something that sounds affectionate!"

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