The greatest Scottish Cup SHOCKERS!

THE Scottish Cup is being contested for the 125th time this year. If the famous old competition needed real drama to mark its landmark anniversary it was provided by Ross County yesterday.

The First Division club's stunning victory over Celtic in yesterday's semi-final ranks alongside the greatest shocks results, up there with Berwick's humiliation of Rangers in 1967 and the defeat inflicted on Celtic by Inverness at Parkhead in 2000 which cost John Barnes his job.

• BERWICK 1, RANGERS 0

1967 Scottish Cup first round

Rangers' defeat by Berwick still stands at the pinnacle of Scottish Cup shocks. Sammy Reid scored the only goal of the game for the Division Two team to leave Rangers rocked to the core. Berwick also held the Ibrox side to a goalless draw at Shielfield Park in 2002.

• CELTIC 1 INVERNESS CT 3

2000 Scottish Cup third round

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Celtic manager John Barnes was feeling the heat in his first season at the club, but nothing was to prepare him for the visit of Inverness, then a First Division team, in February.

Mark Burchill cancelled out Barry Wilson's opener, but Lubomir Moravcik's own-goal past Jonathan Gould gave Caley a half-time lead. After a dressing-room row involving Mark Viduka and assistant boss Eric Black, Paul Sheerin completed the scoring – and ultimately ended Barnes' managerial career – from the penalty spot.

The result prompted the famous Sun headline 'Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic' Are Atrocious.

• RANGERS 0, HAMILTON 1

1987 Scottish Cup third round

Graeme Souness had started his rebuilding at Ibrox but the foundations were shaken thoroughly on 31 January 1987 when a goal by Adrian Sprott gave Hamilton a famous victory. Rangers still went on to win the league, and the Accies were relegated from the top flight.

• DUNFERMLINE 2, CELTIC 0

1961 Scottish Cup final

Charlie Dickson and Davie Thomson provided the goals in the final replay, as the Pars jolted the Glasgow giants. Dunfermline's then-manager Jock Stein was in charge of Celtic six years later as they won the European Cup.

• STENHOUSEMUIR 2 ABERDEEN 0

1995 Scottish Cup fourth round

Aberdeen's Scottish Cup fourth-round tie at Stenhousemuir looked unlikely to provide any kind of shock. But the all-ticket crowd of 3,800 at Ochilview Park saw Tommy Steele score twice for the part-time team to earn a quarter-final clash with Hibernian and leave Aberdeen manager Roy Aitken humiliated.

• CELTIC 0 FALKIRK 1

1997 Scottish Cup semi-final replay

Falkirk looked to have blown their best chance of securing a semi-final shock over Celtic in the 1-1 draw in the first game, where Kevin James cancelled out a Tommy Johnson strike. But in the replay, Bairns striker Paul McGrillen scored the only goal in the 19th minute to send the Division One side through to the final against Kilmarnock.

• INVERNESS CT 1, CELTIC 0

2003 Scottish Cup quarter-final

Fresh from their heroics at Anfield, where a 2-0 win over Liverpool ensured progress to the UEFA Cup semi-finals, nobody expected lightning to strike twice on Celtic.

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Manager Martin O'Neill made eight changes to his team and Dennis Wyness got the game's only goal for Inverness just before half-time from Richie Hart's cut-back. Celtic made amends by reaching the UEFA Cup final.

• CLYDE 2 CELTIC 1

2006 Scottish Cup third round

Roy Keane made his Celtic debut in a stunning defeat to First Division side Clyde. The SPL leaders slumped to one of the most humiliating defeats in their history against a side assembled by manager Graham Roberts after summer trials.

Craig Bryson and Eddie Malone scored in the first half as Clyde dominated, with Maciej Zurawski grabbing a late consolation.

• FRASERBURGH 1, DUNDEE 0

1959 Scottish Cup

The greatest ever Highland League scalp came on 31 January 1 959 when Fraserburgh knocked out a Dundee team who were one of the top teams in Scotland at the time and included a number of internationalists, Bill Brown and Doug Cowie among them. Hugh Robertson, Alan Cousin, Bobby Cox and Alex Hamilton also played and Dundee went on to win the title two years later.