I'll not even attempt to match the kind of tribute post to Jim Forrest that @MO_TxTruBlu can do, his threads about the great Rangers players of the 1960s are way beyond compare.
But Jim Forrest was an absolutely remarkable Rangers centre forward.
He scored 146 goals in 166 appearances (including Glasgow Cup), giving him the second best goals per game ratio of any Rangers player in our history who played more than 100 games for the club. Only 2 of these were penalties, and his Rangers career was ended not that long after his 22nd birthday.
Who knows what records he might have set if it wasn't for the ridiculous decision to get rid of him after the Berwick cup defeat, a decision that must rank highly in the worst ever made by Rangers.
Sadly, just before my time, but there is some online footage by @Rangers Archive Footage to show this wonderful goalscorer doing what he did best, and for all too short a time in Royal Blue.
I hope he is enjoying a healthy and happy 77th birthday.
But Jim Forrest was an absolutely remarkable Rangers centre forward.
He scored 146 goals in 166 appearances (including Glasgow Cup), giving him the second best goals per game ratio of any Rangers player in our history who played more than 100 games for the club. Only 2 of these were penalties, and his Rangers career was ended not that long after his 22nd birthday.
Who knows what records he might have set if it wasn't for the ridiculous decision to get rid of him after the Berwick cup defeat, a decision that must rank highly in the worst ever made by Rangers.
Sadly, just before my time, but there is some online footage by @Rangers Archive Footage to show this wonderful goalscorer doing what he did best, and for all too short a time in Royal Blue.
I hope he is enjoying a healthy and happy 77th birthday.