Listening to a report on the radio of a 3-0 defeat away to Dukla Prague.
It was our first European game i almost two years and as a boy I had convinced myself that we were going to win the ECWC again that year.
I also laboured under the mis-apprehension that the previous season was the first time that we had failed to qualify for European competition.
It was only in the last few years that a poster corrected me.
I suspect it was @rangeral
Beam backs - I’d forgotten but we did quite a few of them in the days pre blanket TV coverage.My 1st European memory was the Dynamo Kiev beamback in 1987
1st European game in person the said 2nd leg of that match
First competitive Euro game was against Stade Rennes in 1971, a 1-0 win (another big game goal from wee Doddie) putting us through to the 2nd round & on the road to Barcelona. I was 13 and in the Main Stand with my Dad.
Was at a friendly against Moscow Dynamo at Ibrox in 1970, which I think was to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1945 game. We won 1-0 big DJ scoring if I remember correctly.
Remember being at Ibrox Zurich game sure it was 76FC Twente or Zurich mid 70's cant remember which was first. Foreign teams always seemed to have cracking looking shiny adidas football strips under the Ibrox floodlights
Dynamo Kiev.
Memory is a bit hazy as old age creeps in, but was that not the night of Teds fresh air shot?I remember he had one of his mazy nights, but sure it was only as a second half substitute.
Fleck scored 3 but nobody talked after the game about anything other than the Godlike genius of Davie Cooper.
Identical memories except I was in the East enclosure for the Rennes gameFirst competitive Euro game was against Stade Rennes in 1971, a 1-0 win (another big game goal from wee Doddie) putting us through to the 2nd round & on the road to Barcelona. I was 13 and in the Main Stand with my Dad.
Was at a friendly against Moscow Dynamo at Ibrox in 1970, which I think was to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1945 game. We won 1-0 big DJ scoring if I remember correctly.
We lost 3-1 and 6-2 on aggregate, Davie White was sacked the following day.Rangers v Gornik, cant remember the score, late 60s