On This Day (August 6th)

[Sam English]

1889 - Rangers 0 Celtic 2 - Rangers & Clydesdale Harriers Sports Cup Final (4,000)
One member of the near 4000 crowd was indentified as being a scout for English club Notts County,who were known to be interested in Rangers' John Hendry.Unfortunately for the scout,his indentity became known to some within the crowd who did not want Hendry to leave Ibrox and they set about the man,beating him rather severly !
1966 - Rangers 2 (G.McLean 2) Arsenal 0 - Friendly (40,000)
1971 - Rangers 2 (D.Johnstone 2) Everton 1 - Friendly (58,000)
1973 - Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 2 (Scott,McLean) - Friendly (5,000)
1977 - Rangers 3 (MacDonald,Parlane,Cooper) Southampton 1 - Tennants Caledonian Cup Semi-Final (40,000)
1978 - Rangers 4 (Russell,Parlane,A.Forsyth,McDonald) Southampton 1 - Tennants Caledonain Cup Final (32,000)
1980 - Partick Thistle 3 Rangers 2 (McAdam,Russell) - Anglo-Scottish Cup 1st Round 2nd Leg (11,000)
1983 - Berchen Sport 0 Rangers 4 (Clark 3,Prytz) - Metropol '83 3rd/4th Place Play Off (7,000)
1985 - Rangers 2 FC Twente Enschede 1 (Paterson,McCoist) - Friendly (10,994)
1988 - Ayr United 1 Rangers 4 (McCoist 2,Walters,FurphyOG) - Friendly (12,059)
1989 - Rangers 1 (Steven) Tottenham Hotspur 0 - Friendly (41,214)
1991 - St.Mirren 2 Rangers 3 (Johnston,Spencer,Durrant) - Friendly (7,204)
This game was a testimonial for Campbell Money and drew a crowd of just over 7000 to Love Street.
1994 - Rangers 1 (May OG) Manchester United 0 - The Ibrox International Challenge Trophy 3rd/4th Place Play-Off (30,186)
2005 - Inverness C.T. 0 Rangers 1 (Ferguson) - Scottish Premier League (7,512)
2011 - Rangers 1 (Jelavic) Chelsea 3 - Friendly (47,379)
2013 - Rangers 1 (McCulloch Pen) Newcastle United 1 - Friendly
2016 - Rangers 1 (Waghorn) Hamilton Accies 1 - Scottish Premiership (49,125)
2017 - Motherwell 1 Rangers 2 (Dorrans 2 1 Pen) - Scottish premiership (9,974)

 

[BruceyBalboa]

1889 - Funnily enough I watched the Follow Follow stage show from 1994 a couple of days ago and this was mentioned in it!

 

[simply_the_best]

2016 - alarm bells start ringing, a disappointing start to a long awaited game.

 

[Blue Lou Boyle]

1994 - sir furious wasnt happy in the papers afterwards with us for cantona taking a bit of stick.

 

[Bri RTID]

2013 - Rangers 1 (McCulloch Pen) Newcastle United 1 - Friendly
we actually played well this game

 

[BruceyBalboa]

2016 - alarm bells start ringing, a disappointing start to a long awaited game.

And the last time we were given what you would consider a fairly easy opening game in the league.

Since then its been Motherwell away, Aberdeen away, Kilmarnock away then Aberdeen away again. All tough places to go. We never seen to get St Johnstone or Ross County.

 

[.k.k.]

2020 - good chance to record our first 3-0 win on this date

 

[Lairdo]

1971 - 58,000 in torrential rain.

1978 - Bobby Russell smashed the ball at Gerry O’Brien (rhabid from Barmulloch)

1980 - squandered a 2-0 lead. McAdam running to Auld either v-sign when he netted

 

[JMCK]

Steven in that 89 match strolled it; brilliant player. Ian Ferguson was brilliant in that game as well.

 

[JMCK]

2016 - alarm bells start ringing, a disappointing start to a long awaited game.

True, but what a great half-volley by Waghorn.

 

[Sam English]

1971 - 58,000 in torrential rain

Remember being at that game.

A Friday evening IIRC.

 

[Lairdo]

Remember being at that game.

A Friday evening IIRC.

Me too. Everton on Friday, Spurs following Monday.

Happy times.

 

[wee bud's pit boots]

1989 - Fergie getting involved with a certain Paul Gascoigne as I recall.

 

[MO_TxTruBlu]

1966 - Rangers 2 (G.McLean 2) Arsenal 0 - Friendly (40,000)

This game was exactly one week after England won the World Cup.

some results from that same day
Rangers 2-0 Arsenal
Hibernian 3-2 Nottingham Forest
Aberdeen 2-1 Man City
Celtic 4-1 Man Utd
St Johnstone 5-2 Ipswich

 

[simply_the_best]

This game was exactly one week after England won the World Cup.

some results from that same day
Rangers 2-0 Arsenal
Hibernian 3-2 Nottingham Forest
Aberdeen 2-1 Man City
Celtic 4-1 Man Utd
St Johnstone 5-2 Ipswich

You are a real wealth of knowledge bud, I really enjoy all your posts.

 

[Carltonblue]

1983 Belgium. Sandy Clark hat trick, hard to believe. Bears fans drank the nearby Sports Bar dry afterwards.

 

[Kingstein]

1991.the game were Brian Reid does his knee in and effectively ended his rangers career

 

[jimbear]

1973 - we had just signed Ally Scott from Queens Park and my older brother and I went down to Rugby Park to see what he was like. We were not impressed.

 

[MO_TxTruBlu]

1973 - we had just signed Ally Scott from Queens Park and my older brother and I went down to Rugby Park to see what he was like. We were not impressed.

Having failed to win a Title in the previous 9 seasons, with Millar, Brand, Forrest, McLean, Stein, D.Johnstone and Parlane, the promise of Ally Scott was a little underwhelming to say the least!

 

[wee bud's pit boots]

1973 - we had just signed Ally Scott from Queens Park and my older brother and I went down to Rugby Park to see what he was like. We were not impressed.

Nice sideburns as I recall.

Think we signed Junior player of the year, Eric Morris, that year, too.

 

[bluetonic]

1989 v Spurs is probably the best friendly match I’ve ever attended, Spurs had a decent side but so did we right enough.
Great day it was

 

[jimbear]

Nice sideburns as I recall.

Think we signed Junior player of the year, Eric Morris, that year, too.

The difference between Eric Morris and Ally Scott was that Eric Morris would have got a game for the amateur team that I ran in Glasgow at that time.

 

[wee bud's pit boots]

The difference between Eric Morris and Ally Scott was that Eric Morris would have got a game for the amateur team that I ran in Glasgow at that time.

Nice sideburns though.

 

[Treble Kings]

2016 - Rangers 1 (Waghorn) Hamilton Accies 1 - Scottish Premiership (49,125)

I felt crushed that day. All the euphoria of making it back up evaporated away when we realised we were actually honking.