30 years tonight we played Marseille

jf1960 said:
I was there what a fvcking jaunt that was the police wouldn't let us into the centre of Marseille and took us with a bike escort up into the hills until we left for kick off , also at the game some cvnt through a coin hit me smack on the bridge of my nose
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Sorry just realised it was the home game you were talking about lol I was there as well
 
Marseille were a great team. Just think how good they would have been had they kept Papin and Waddle as well.

The first 75 minutes of the game was easily one of the best displays from an opposition team at Ibrox, up there with Juventus and Valencia in the 90s.
 
Tickets were like gold dust, but we managed to get two behind the goals about 5 rows up in the Copland Front so got a really good view of both our goals.
 
i had a child's club deck ticket back then, the policeman standing next to us was properly celebrating with us at the hateley goal.
 
How old does this make me feel? Incredible game. Truth be told Marseille hardly gave us a kick for an hour then we shook them at the end and an extra ten mins into that game we’d have won it.
 
I would have been six.

I obviously have no recollection of watching it live or anything, but I have have the highlights from the 92/93 season review video imprinted in my brain until death.
 
macaloon9 said:
Nobody else seems to share this view but I thought he was an absolute cheating bastard - couldn’t stand him.
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Don't remember that to be fair, I thought he was a brilliant, hugely skilful player, I certainly remember Di Meco getting dogs abuse, he was their hatchet man amongst a team of pure talent.
 
Amity75 said:
I can remember it as though it was yesterday. I was 20 years old and there with my dad. I actually found the program from it up my loft a few months ago.
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Those were great looking programmes. Smaller than usual, all with the stars on the cover, and all with UEFA sponsors advertising throughout: Olivetti, Snickers, Ford, Nike, Phillips, M&Ms.
 
As a youngster this was the first season I realised there was such a thing as European football. Had I known it would be all downhill for the 30 years...
 
Christ. I'd have been 9. My dad was at the game, remember sitting at home watching it with my brother. 2 goals in the space of a couple of minutes iirc. Full tonto when Hateley equalised and my maw telling us to calm down it's only 2 each! Wummin eh? :rolleyes:
 
SDF said:
For 76 minutes they absolutely battered us, until Big lazy Miko put in a beautiful cross for goal number one and then slid in won the ball on the Govan Stand side to start the move for the second and the rest is history.

Even then Marseille almost won it at the death with a free kick.
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I would have said the turning point was Walter dropping Durrant back into midfield. Super was injured for that game and Durrant was pushed forward to support Hateley. When McSwegan came on Durrant dropped back to his usual position and the rest is history.

You are bang on about Miko's cross, an absolute peach and an ootswinger as well.
 
Not a patch on the Parma team who hadn't lost in Europe for 6 years(?) before we pumped them at Ibrox, just after they pumped Marseilles to win the UEFA cup, but aye makes the cheating thing all the more bizarre.
 
TCWNS1872 said:
Miko missed a sitter in the opening five minutes or so.

How different things might have been...
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McSwegan had a slightly easier chance, i think, from the one he scored from.

Huistra over there was frustrating, took too long to make a pass, tried to beat one man too many and fluffed what should've led to a great chance for us.
 
muttley said:
Looking back, that is some gap from the first Marseille game at Ibrox in November 1992, to the second in France in April, 1993.?
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yeah we played 2 against Marseille at home and CSKA away and then the tournament took a break until March where we played 4 in about 6 weeks

compare that to the CL groups this year where it was 6 games in about 8 weeks :D or in a normal year when it's 3 months to complete those 6 games
 
10 years old, second rangers game ever, specks punched off my face and 10 rows they flew down the govan when mcswegan scored

They were passed back up fully intact. Love retelling this story
 
I was 14 didn't get a ticket. But had been to pre season friendly in the summer. They were phenomenoal team. Played us off the park that night. As they did for 3 quarters of the 2-2 game if we're honest.
 
I was 15 at the time and naively thought that from then on we would always be up amongst the big boys in Europe. Mental how quickly time goes by. Another one of they time periods, Then I’ll be well dead and gone from this mortal coil.
 
Our bus stayed in Avignon the day before the game as Marseille was deemed too dodgy to be based in lead up to the match
 
I was there, CR3. We honestly could have been 3 or 4 down by the time Mcswegan pulled one back but what scenes when Hateley equalised.
 
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Some of you may remember the pandemonium in the hours before the match started because lots of people in the Club Deck hadn't received their tickets and we were printing duplicates all afternoon. I was on duty at the match with a list of affected seats in case anyone turned up with the originals, but no-one did. We were two goals down before we decided we could just watch the game, but I don't think I'll ever forget what the ground looked like when our second goal went in.

A Royal Mail sorting office "found" a bag of undelivered tickets the day after the match. The suspicion was that a disgruntled tim had shoved them out of sight till it was too late to deliver them. After that the club started using envelopes with just a PO Box number on the back, so they weren't so obviously from Rangers.
 
If it had been 5-0 to Marseille after 75 minutes we could have had very little complaints. However, if another 5 minutes had been played at the end I’m convinced we would have won 3-2
 
macaloon9 said:
Nobody else seems to share this view but I thought he was an absolute cheating bastard - couldn’t stand him.
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Him along with their other 9 outfield players were great that night for 80 minutes, they were a really good team
 
Marseille were outstanding. When one considers our side included Murray and McPherson, it was nothing sort of a miracle we were able to hang on and then equalise. Conversely, the likes of Goughie, Durranty, big Hateley, bomber, McCall, Gary Steven and the goalie and Miko knew ’no surrender’. Put together as a team for buttons (compared to today), there was never ’talk’ of not being able to compete! Our team would die for the cause back then. And when we got to Marseille in the return we were so good, Durranty brilliant, we nearly beat them. That’s what a real Rangers team did for us that year.
 
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