As a teenager bear in the 70s I used to enjoy the Tennant Caledonian Cup which comprised 4 teams, basically Rangers, Kilmarnock/Hearts or Partick Thistle, and 2 English teams usually from West Brom, Southampton, Brighton or West Ham. Always a good way to whet the appetite for the coming season.
Favourite ever friendly / pre-season tournament
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amabluestar
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always enjoyed our games against the arsenal.
Yup, agree with that, a lot of the younger bears perhaps don't know of the long-standing relationship between these famous old clubs.
Watching Rangers play twice in Brora were enjoyable, if surreal experiences. Only an hour from home and Andy Murray won Wimbledon as we were going through Dunbeath the first time around!
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queensferrybear
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Emirates cup was a cracking weekend. Most of it was spent in the bar across from the stadium.
Emirates was great as was Newcastle both cracking weekends and the Saturday night in Gateshead at the brewery was superb.
leroyjohnson
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Quite possibly the best atmosphere ever for a friendly. This game gets my vote.
Martin paterson
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Newcastle away was superb
StaunchEnclosure
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Pre season friendly trip to Ipswich circa 2006?
Cant remember anything about the game mind you
Cant remember anything about the game mind you
Virgil Hilts
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The one with Sours and Sampdoria
Virgil Hilts
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Couple of weeks after helicopter Sunday too.
Pennine Walk
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Remember going to pre season tournaments in Lille and Antwerp.
Forgot about that one. The games were pretty unremarkable but the FF sash bash in the pub near the ground was tremendous.
sofa_kineazy
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All the bears doing the bouncy and the stand actually bouncing with us.
Agreed
Derby anyone?
We will forever have their record crowd as there was no segregation. 20k away fans? Must have been.
The linesman with the UJ flag lol.
The amount of bevvy consumed by the Bears was simply stunning and boy did we put it away.
Alcohol was on sale in the ground but here is a little known fact.
When the tannoy announced there was no sale of bevvy at half time-which was greeted by a mighty roar that we had drunk the place dry-this was not really correct.
The Plod in command had simply recognised that we were in fine spirits and that selling more drink may have changed this so got the shutters pulled.
Great decision.
Me and my mate blagged our way into hospitality: which was nice
We will forever have their record crowd as there was no segregation. 20k away fans? Must have been.
The linesman with the UJ flag lol.
The amount of bevvy consumed by the Bears was simply stunning and boy did we put it away.
Alcohol was on sale in the ground but here is a little known fact.
When the tannoy announced there was no sale of bevvy at half time-which was greeted by a mighty roar that we had drunk the place dry-this was not really correct.
The Plod in command had simply recognised that we were in fine spirits and that selling more drink may have changed this so got the shutters pulled.
Great decision.
Me and my mate blagged our way into hospitality: which was nice
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Fulham away in 2004 was my first ever Rangers match so it'd have to be that one for me. It took me until I was 21 to see The Famous live but it was well worth the wait.
Can't see it, they'll have lucrative tours elsewhere plus that Champions Cup nonsense.
nessboy8
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Tottenham were the other team. Brilliant couple of days of football, was my first visit to Ibrox and loved every minute. Gazza had just signed and still had Goram, Gough, Robertson, Laudrup, McCoist, McCall, Hately.
Crouchy
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Left a sour taste for me.
Caldow1872
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At27 I enjoy all down south but liked the emirates tournament was a great day
Brilliant, the Drayton Park pub before and after the games. Some wee guy from Eastenders was in, they give him the mike and he says ‘I love the jumpy jumpy song’
Hope we get invited again.
Slickrick
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This two seasons in a row. We beat Man United 1-0 with McCoist scoring, Cantona sent off.
Laudrup and Gazza making debuts each year in this event.
Without a doubt the best pres season Friendly by a mile was Chelsea at Ibrox when we beat them 2-0, it was like a champions league atmosphere. The Chelsea fans and players where stunned after the game. Even Sebo scored.
Me too. My first introduction to Rangers while up visiting my relatives in Kilbirnie.
I was at 2 of them. The West Brom game I think was Willie Johnstone's first game back at Ibrox for WB and I think Peter Osgood was playing for Southampton by then.
I was at that. Never been so packed into a terrace. Managed to get up into the seats in the Park Lane stand. Mental day.
Klos the Boss
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1987 International Tournament with Sociedad, Porto Alegre and Ajax
Easy winner for me- think it was called the Ibrox Cup- a four team preseason tournament with Rangers, Man U, Newcastle and Sampdoria.
Rangers vs Man U for the third place playoff was the unofficial ‘battle of Britain’ And a bit of a grudge match with Cantona getting sent off.
Rangers vs Man U for the third place playoff was the unofficial ‘battle of Britain’ And a bit of a grudge match with Cantona getting sent off.
TibbsyBear
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My personal favourite also.
At one point before the game we were all just standing on the hill (thousands of us) singing down to the concourse and the Derby fans were just looking up in amazement obviously thinking what the fucks going on here.
The Derby fans were brilliant as well. There was either a bar joined on to the stadium or right beside it and they wouldn’t let us put our hands in our pocket.
Not that we needed it, we’d already put away plenty by the time we hit Carlisle services.
Couldn’t speak for a week after that. The singing was literally constant for the whole match.
Northampton Lodger
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Was going to go slightly off topic and say the old League cup format in the 70,s . In my head it was always sunny and we won every game by five or six.
Reading the thread it reminded me of some great games in England I went to.
Reading the thread it reminded me of some great games in England I went to.
mfgorm
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This one. Frank Rijkaard was outstanding.
simply_the_best
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I enjoyed a couple of pre season games in England, Sunderland and Everton. I'm not a big fan of friendly games but going down to England is a nice change from the norm.
bedsblue
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the_paceman
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My best pre season away to Sion in Switzerland and then onto Kaiserslautern in Germany, fantastic week away
