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Scott Crabbe recalls a time when he was 'stoating about the street with my Falkirk blazer on'

The prospect of a cup semi-final between Falkirk and Celtic takes Scott Crabbe back to a night that ended with a free journey home in the taxi cab of a Rangers fan.

There are a slew of memories from the occasion when his Falkirk team knocked the Celtic side of Paolo Di Canio, Jorge Cadete and Alan Stubbs out of the 1997 Scottish Cup. The result was so unexpected that the holiday the first division club's directors had bought the players for reaching the semi-final was booked for two weeks before the final. "We ended up training in Magaluf," Crabbe says with a smile. "The standard was second to none, though, because everybody wanted their place in the cup final team."