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My first as well.The last game of the season v Aberdeen was my first time seeing Rangers.
My first as well.The last game of the season v Aberdeen was my first time seeing Rangers.
aberdeen beat us 3-2 at Ibrox that day,April 27 my 13th birthday.Bastards then bastards still.One for the older bears. Looking back through the history books I'm amazed that we went into our final game of the season on course for an unbeaten season. We ultimately lost to Aberdeen an the poets pipped us to the league.
Amazing to think we nearly stopped their 9 in a row dead in tracks before it ever got going and yet missed on the league despite being unbeaten against the mentally challenged and losing only once all year.
What are bears memories of that campaign?
One for the older bears. Looking back through the history books I'm amazed that we went into our final game of the season on course for an unbeaten season. We ultimately lost to Aberdeen an the poets pipped us to the league.
Amazing to think we nearly stopped their 9 in a row dead in tracks before it ever got going and yet missed on the league despite being unbeaten against the mentally challenged and losing only once all year.
What are bears memories of that campaign?
Quarter final that year , lost to Leeds 2-0.Also reached UEFA Cup semi final...
That was 1968/69 mate. It was 1-0 at Ibrox and 2-2 at the piggery in 1967/68.
We should have won it in 1967/68 but losing to Hearts in the Scottish Cup and then Leeds in the Fairs Cup seemed to throw us. Even then we were still technically ahead with three games to go, as long as we beat Morton at Cappielow on 17th April. We were 0-2 and 1-3 down but fought back for a 3-3 draw, with a shot cleared off the line in the dying seconds. It left us level on points with the scum with 2 games to go, with them ahead on goal average. On 20th April we had a tough away game against Kilmarnock while they had what looked a routine game with Morton at home. Rangers fought back from a goal down to win 2-1 at Rugby Park whilst Morton equalised at the piggery. Gers game ended and the announcer gave the result from the piggery as 1-1, prompting a pitch invasion from The Bears, weeks of tension seemingly lifted. Hard to understand, as even that result wouldn't have won the league, but would have had us 1 pt ahead with 1 game to go. Needless to say the scum game had 4 mins of injury time and they won it with the last touch. Many Bears didn't know they'd won till they got home, car and bus radios being less common then. With one game to go we still had a chance as we were playing Aberdeen at home on the day of the Scottish Cup Final (which would never happen now) while the scum game at East End Park was off as Dunfermline were playing in said final (and won it). Aberdeen had struggled most of the season and Gers had won 3-0 in the League Cup and 4-1 in the earlier league match so we should have been able to win and pile pressure on them for their game the following Tuesday. Rangers played well and twice took the lead but Erik Sorensen had a nightmare in goal and gifted two goals, including the late winner. A Gers win that day and who knows what might have happened the following Tuesday as Dunfermline were fresh from winning the Scottish Cup and took the lead against them. But they had to lose 16-0 for us to win the league and the pressure was off, and they ran out 2-1 winners.
We could have won the league in 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1973, but 1968 was the year we definitely should have done it. Heartbreaking doesn't begin to describe it. 29 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat would in any other year have been a sure-fire Championship. It's still unbelievable to this day.
1-0 at Ibrox and 4-2 at Celtic Park?
Fantastic Summary - thanks for posting. I was only 9 at the time and had been to my first game at Ibrox earlier that season, a 3-1 win over Hamilton in the SC and the same day that Dunfermline went to the piggery and knocked them out 2-0. I can remember the tension of the last few weeks of the season & the disappointment of the Aberdeen result which virtually handed them the title.
I remember big ‘Legend’ scoring in a 1-0 win… possibbly a penalty.
Just can’t remember if it was 67-68 or 68-69.
Think the ‘boy white’ was in charge and we wore the all royal blue shirt with the round neck.
Can still picture Greigy with arm aloft saluting the supporters!!
Dementia Loyal
Yeah, that was the January 1969 game.I remember big ‘Legend’ scoring in a 1-0 win… possibbly a penalty.
Just can’t remember if it was 67-68 or 68-69.
Think the ‘boy white’ was in charge and we wore the all royal blue shirt with the round neck.
Can still picture Greigy with arm aloft saluting the supporters!!
Dementia Loyal
2nd January 1969 mate, 1-0 to Rangers with 85,000 there to witness it:
Orjan Persson scored some special goals, and this was one of them - direct from a corner in a 5-0 win over Stirling Albion on 16th March 1968:
In the west enclosure that day , remember Persson goal at the Rangers end.
Boy David it was.
Yep I’ve officially diagnosed your dementia!
The ‘loan’ Ranger being …the late Andy Penman?A fighting 2-2 draw at the piggery on 2nd January 1968:
The ‘loan’ Ranger being …the late Andy Penman?
The ‘loan’ Ranger being …the late Andy Penman?
Jeez ……Billy McBungle looks like he is about to banjo Ronnie Simpson!
Is that Fergie in the Dresden picture?Rangers winning a Fairs Cup tie v Dynamo Dresden on 7th October 1967 (2-1, 3-2 agg):
That nickname came from Wille Waddell……correct?
I remember Fallon being a fat b even then … had a square heid ……but you are probably right!Actually I'm not sure about that one as their keeper was Fallon that day (he had a 'mare and was responsible for both our goals, especially the second!). I think the third one may be from the League Cup match on 30th August 1967, which they won 3-1.
Is that Fergie in the Dresden picture?
It was, and it was uncalled for. I always felt sorry for Davie White. At a different time and with more experience he could have been a success with Rangers. He didn't exactly get much time but he came close and was desperately unlucky in many ways.
Great picturesA fighting 2-2 draw at the piggery on 2nd January 1968:
I remember Fallon being a fat b even then … had a square heid ……but you are probably right!
These are great images … thanks for posting these mate!In the first one yes, and Andy Penman and John Greig in the second.
Here's the fat b gifting us an equaliser 2 mins from time in that New Year game in '68 :
If memory serves Waddell who was a full time journalist castigated White in the Express? after our humiliation at the hands of Gornik …home and away!
And then ………replaced him as manager………I think!
These are great images … thanks for posting these mate!
Another Kai special! Superb!!
Don’t think he scored many others?
This is an amazing thread to read for people like myself who weren't around.
The info and the pics are terrific gents.
Cheers.
Correction……gent.
I am being reeducated by our learned friend … and throughly enjoying every minute of it!
Orjan Persson's famous goal against the scum at Ibrox, 16/9/67:
That nickname came from Wille Waddell……correct?
Another great manager we let slip through our fingers!
Waddell will mostly be remembered as a manager at least …for the League Cup and Scottish Cup wins as well as our European win……superb … of course……but I think we struggled badly in the league in just about every season he was in charge?
His record in Old Firm games was terrible, other than that 1970 League Cup Final. He dismantled the team and rebuilt it and it meant we became more of a cup team than a league winning side. We did start winning stuff again (not least the Cup-Winners Cup!), even more so when Jock Wallace took over, but those Rangers teams of the mid-late 60s had some amount of talent and I wish we had players of that quality today.
Famous for his scissor kicksThat boy had a wand of a left peg!
Scored some absolute beauts!!
Eat your heart out Aren Robben!
It was, and it was uncalled for. I always felt sorry for Davie White. At a different time and with more experience he could have been a success with Rangers. He didn't exactly get much time but he came close and was desperately unlucky in many ways.