Suspended from work because she went to see the Rangers. The Rangers News 1973.

Superb stuff OP , the Billy’s Bar bus Prestonpans used to have a couple of Old Lady’s who went to many a match and if she wasn’t on the bus you knew she had got a lift from Jock Wallace who supplied all he and her pals tickets, Auld Meg lived a wee sherry and always had a tipple with her, on a Sunday she never missed the Kirk.

She was in her 80’s and still attending
 
The Moonlighter said:
My late auntie Emma from the Rangers News in 1973.

Look at her wonderful scarf,she’s also pictured at Fir Park Motherwell with my Mum and my Auntie Sadie in 1949..all with the same hand knitted scarf.





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Great find OP.

My Grandfather also featured in that Rangers News feature.

Like your Aunt Emma I also ran into work issues for going to a Rangers game. I ran out of holidays so phoned in a weeks sickie and headed off to Eindhoven in 78 for our European Cup tie. Having been in Turin when we played Juventus, I wasn't missing this game. Apparently the BBC highlights showed the Rangers fans going berserk after every goal in our 3-2 win. My Tim gaffer claimed he spotted me in the crowd. Thankfully it was before video recorders and my union rep laughed him out the disciplinary meeting.
 
Great piece. I remember when I was a wee boy seeing supporters wearing scarves with the players names sewn into them. I don't think I've seen any since the early 1960's.
 
Delboy WATP said:
Photo of the fans at the bottom is a cracker
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That’s my mum showing the scarf and winking lol

My aunt Sadie who’s also in that photo had told me about them all being in the paper decades ago at a match at Fir Park so I asked her roughly what age they’d have been then went through our fixtures from 1945-1955 got myself up to the Mitchell Library and found it on the sports page of The Sunday Post.

The cheer I let out that day almost got me barred lol.

That pic is framed and hangs in my Rangers room.
 
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Family bam said:
Brilliant read.

I jumped on the panel and went to see the Rangers v Fortuna Dusseldorf in '79 and returned to my P45.
Grassed unsurprisingly by a supporter of a club in the east end of Glasgow!! :rolleyes:
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They Clyde fans were a right shower. :(
 
Jan Wyck said:
Great find OP.

My Grandfather also featured in that Rangers News feature.

Like your Aunt Emma I also ran into work issues for going to a Rangers game. I ran out of holidays so phoned in a weeks sickie and headed off to Eindhoven in 78 for our European Cup tie. Having been in Turin when we played Juventus, I wasn't missing this game. Apparently the BBC highlights showed the Rangers fans going berserk after every goal in our 3-2 win. My Tim gaffer claimed he spotted me in the crowd. Thankfully it was before video recorders and my union rep laughed him out the disciplinary meeting
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Jan Wyck said:
Great find OP.

My Grandfather also featured in that Rangers News feature.

Like your Aunt Emma I also ran into work issues for going to a Rangers game. I ran out of holidays so phoned in a weeks sickie and headed off to Eindhoven in 78 for our European Cup tie. Having been in Turin when we played Juventus, I wasn't missing this game. Apparently the BBC highlights showed the Rangers fans going berserk after every goal in our 3-2 win. My Tim gaffer claimed he spotted me in the crowd. Thankfully it was before video recorders and my union rep laughed him out the disciplinary meeting.
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what was your grandfathers name and I will dig out the article and post for you?
 
Brilliant OP!

I know a guy who got the sack from his job back in 1986 for following Rangers to Portugal. He took a sickie so he could attend the Boavista game in the UEFA Cup but his photo was printed in the paper (in close-up too, it was unmistakably him :))) and when he went into work a day or two later he was given his cards. His boss had to have been a Tim but at least we won!
 
Brilliant story mate!
What a fantastic support we’ve had and will hopefully continue to have in the future.
It’s brilliant the scarf is still in the family too.
Thanks for sharing.
 
The Moonlighter said:
That’s my mum showing the scarf and winking lol

My aunt Sadie who’s also in that photo had told me about them all being in the paper decades ago at a match at Fir Park so I asked her roughly what age they’d have been then went through our fixtures from 1945-1955 got myself up to the Mitchell Library and found it on the sports page of The Sunday Post.

The cheer I let out that day almost got me barred lol.

That pic is framed and hangs in my Rangers room.
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It’s a wonderful photograph. It captures the joy of life of the young women.
 
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