Earliest clear memory Rangers 0 Airdrie 1 on the 26th April 1975. Reported as 65,000 but full house.
Score didn't really matter. I had been to games before going back to 1971, but this is the one that is my clearest early memory. Usually went into the Copland Road end, but my Dad and my Uncles had myself and my cousins safely tucked up the middle of the Centenary Stand right on the halfway line. I can recall it was party central with cans of Tenants lager with the "dolly birds" everywhere and empty half bottles of 100 Pipers being crushed underfoot.
I remember looking up at the Rangers end, and that memory stays with me. I was hooked. Around 20,000 bears on one massive slope singing Derrys Walls in unison.
That day we were celebrating, it was the last game of the season at home, we had already stopped Celtic's quest for 10 in a row.
My Dad and my Uncles as younger men had feasted on the Rangers team of the early 60's, a couple of them had been fortunate to have been in and around that squad, one of the best in Europe.
Despite coming close in Europe in 1967 and triumph in Barcelona in 1972, and the occasional domestic cup since 1965, the league in 1975 was massive for us.
Let's look forward to the end of the season next year when we shall write the next chapter in Rangers history books.