Here’s the moment from last night when we bluenoses knew Rangers had made it to the semi-finals of the UEFA cup; a brilliant goal made all the more glorious by commentator Peter Drury’s complete abandonment of impartiality as the ball goes in. But little wonder. This is the furthest we’ve (formally*) gone in Europe since 1972. We won the old Cup Winners’ Cup that year… and we’re daring to dream again.
This is the second goal – the first is here.
* In the 1992-93 Champions League, which I mostly watched in the basement of an Edinburgh pub called Bentleys, Rangers effectively reached the semi-finals, as they were a match away from the final. They were beaten narrowly by Marseille, who would go on to win the competition in the final against Milan. But the Rangers v Marseille tie was not officially a semi-final – just a group game between the two teams with any chance of winning the group, and thus reaching the final.