Come Sunday morning gamers of Rangers and Celtic shall be going via their acquainted routines.
And it is well-known that many swear by some significantly weird rituals earlier than they head out.
The strain cooker of derby day makes gamers do probably the most outstanding issues on the park and it is no completely different behind the scenes when a lot is on the road.
This match specifically is excessive stakes with the title up for grabs and it is the Hoops who've a three-point higher hand once they head to Ibrox.
File Sport delves into a number of the finest pre-match superstitions from the inexperienced half of Glasgow.
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Scott Brown
Parkhead legend Brown was named Hoops captain in early 2010 and when he was delivered to the entrance the picture of him within the tunnel, unmoved, grew to become a part of derby day iconography for over a decade.
These in behind in each inexperienced and blue would mill round and speak amongst themselves, maybe a shout of 'come on lads' because the convoy of twenty-two started to maneuver in direction of the pitch.
However entrance and centre the shaven-headed captain was utterly static, like he was making an attempt to stare via the stand reverse.
Gers captains got here and went: David Weir, Steven Davis, Carlos Bocanegra, Lee Wallace and the incumbent James Tavernier.
Brown remained unmoved irrespective of who stood alongside him.
Former boss Gordon Strachan as soon as mentioned: "He’ll in all probability be remembered most of all for that stare. That stare you see when he’s standing within the tunnel, you get the identical stare off him within the dressing room at half-time.
"After I first introduced him to Celtic I mentioned to the blokes, ‘Have you ever watched him at half-time?
“You might name him one of the best participant on the earth or the worst participant on the earth and he by no means blinks. He simply stares at you. It’s unnerving.
"I assumed to myself, ‘There’s one thing unsuitable with that fella. He doesn’t blink. It doesn’t matter what I say to him there may be completely no emotion!’.
"I keep in mind one time I requested him, ‘Are you able to inform me what you’re really considering at this second since you’re killing me?’
"He simply stored staring then cracked a wee smile. Sensible!"
Ange Postecoglou
Sure, the present supervisor has a bit routine of his personal when his staff play at residence.
He isn't huge into superstitions however this one is extra about lapping up a second that also strikes him.
Postecoglou mentioned: "As a younger child I simply adopted English soccer, Scottish soccer, something from the opposite facet of the world, as a result of in Australia on the time soccer wasn't probably the most skilled or highly-publicised sport.
"I would sit up in the midst of the evening and watch video games from over right here and I at all times beloved the environment that was created.
"I would stand up early to look at the pre-match and also you hear them singing the songs.
"I do it now at Celtic. Simply earlier than the lads exit, they're within the sheds and the dressing rooms.
"And I am going to stroll out of the dressing rooms and simply stand within the tunnel, and hearken to the group sing You will By no means Stroll Alone earlier than we stroll out."
Pierre van Hooijdonk and Tosh McKinlay
Simon Donnelly did not care a lot for superstitions however chatting with Go Radio he revealed Dutchman Van Hooijdonk had one which made his abdomen flip – gobbling down a curry on recreation day.
It may have made for ugly scenes had he mixed that with team-mate McKinlay's favorite routine, which was to make himself sick.
Donnelly revealed: "We had some mad ones in our dressing room.
"Tosh McKinlay went into the bathroom and tried to make himself sick earlier than video games, good earlier than we went out.
"Pierre van Hooijdonk had a curry for his pre-match which I could not get my head round!"
Bobby Murdoch and Danny McGrain
These two Celtic heroes of the 60s and 70s have been team-mates for 3 years and through that point the Hoops dressing room might need been a very odd place.
Hearsay has it Lisbon Lion Murdoch at all times insisted on being the ultimate man out onto the pitch when the groups got here out.
He would fall in line behind McGrain who is alleged to have made his shorts the ultimate article of clothes he'd placed on – and solely proper on the final second because the gamers headed for the tunnel.