Old rivalry will be rekindled this Wednesday when Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan, play host to their eternal rivals, Rangers International of Enugu.
The NPFL 2021/22 season matchday 16 clash, slated to kick off at 7.00pm at the Lekan Salami Stadium, readily brings to mind the past meetings between the two foremost clubs in the land.
Soccer fans would cast their mind back to the 70s, when both teams ruled the domestic scene and also made their marks on the continental scene.
Both clubs, apart from winning continental laurels (the then African Cup Winners Cup in 1976 and 1977), also supplied the largest share of players for the then Green Eagles of Nigeria.
Any clash between the two sides, always brings to remembrance, the glamour associated with the Nigerian league then and this, soccer fans would surely be looking forward to when they both file out on Wednesday night.
It definitely promises to be a cracker as fourth placed Rangers, who were held at their adopted home ground by Kano Paullars, last Sunday, take on the Oluyole Warriors, who are desperately in need of the maximum points to end their three game winless run and also move up on the ladder, where they occupy the 12th position, going into this fixture.
Fans will be delighted to see the two meet again, almost four years after they last clashed, no thanks to the demotion of the Ibadan soccer lords in the 2016/17 season.
The last meeting between the two teams was in 2017 at the same Lekan Salami Stadium, ended in a dramatic fashion as the Oluyole Warriors grabbed a late goal through Bode Daniel, just immediately after Aguda missed a late penalty awarded the Flying Antelopes.
Going by the mood in the camp of the Edith Agoye tutored Oluyole Warriors, the Flying Antelopes, under the tutelage of Abdul Maikaba are in for a very difficult game as the Stars, apparently unhappy with the results of their last three games, looked poised to return to winning ways with victory over the visitors.
