Steve1872

born n bred glaswegian i also asked for an orange jersey:uk::uk:

100% agree with that

spend more time standing than sitting so wouldn't affect me

In the 1959 European Cup game at Ibrox against a tough Anderlecht side, Ranger, Harold Davis eventually snapped having being fouled once too often. Jurion, a player who actually wore glasses on the pitch, committed a foul and knew immediately that the ex-Korean War veteran was on the warpath when he jumped up and glared at him. To the amazement of the crowd, the Belgian ran half way up the pitch with Davis chasing him but when Davis eventually caught up with the hapless Jurion, Harold could only burst out laughing at the absurdity of the situation

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from RM 3yrs ago There it is. The team Rangers were named after. SWINDON RANGERS, 1870. It says Football but remember Rugby Football was a football back then. QUOTE As early as 1870 there has been at least one Rugby Union team in Swindon.The earliest reference that can be found so far is in the Swindon Evening Advertiser and refers to a match played on 26th November 1870 between Swindon Rangers and Highworth on some land loaned to the Rangers by a Mr. J Brunsden in Gorse Hill. There is not much information in the report (see below) but it does state Swindon one by 1 goal and 3 ranges.

Old Ibrox was situated just few yards from our current location, the centre circle was roughly where the Superstore now stands, the Grandstand was located where Edmiston House is, The new ground which had a magnificent 300 foot long Grandstand and a pavilion in the corner had an overall capacity of 15,000

The name Rangers was chosen by Moses McNeil after noticing it in Alcock’s Football Annual

We went to wolverhampton It was down at Wolverhampton not so very long ago and to our local englishmen we did put on a show Ten thousand strong we marched along to hear the famous noise For we’re the lads, the lads that follow Rangers. So on Rangers on, victory is near, From the terraces you will hear the cry So come along with Rangers, you’ll know us by our noise For we’re the lads, the lads that follow Rangers” this one maybe? one version of a Rangers song that stemmed from the game against Wolverhampton.

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When The Rangers came to Wolverhampton Town April 19, 2012 From all over Scotland they came with their Union Flags and Scottish standards. Soaked to the bone from the torrential rain, 10,000 of them paraded through the streets of Wolverhampton. Despite the weather, many were without coats, but they didnâ??t care. All they wanted to do was enjoy their day away from home and see their team win. Their red, white and blue flags and banners that brightened the grey skies protected them from the elements anyway. The locals â?? bemused and amused in equal measure â?? may not have recognised the songs and chants, but they would surely have appreciated the passion with which they were delivered. The battle cry of â??We are the peopleâ?? echoed off the red-brick buildings as the procession wound its way through the town centre. It had started early in the morning as the first trains rumbled into the station. By lunchtime, office workers were abandoning their desks and lining the streets to watch the show. In return, the Scots bellowed their anthems: â??Thereâ??s not a team like the Glasgow Rangersâ?? and â??We will follow onâ??. They broke into The National Anthem, and were met with spontaneous applause from the bystanders. It may have resembled an army, but there was nothing hostile about this invading force. There was alcohol consumed of course, and plenty were in high spirits, but no-one embarrassed themselves or their compadres. It was simply a display of passion and devotion to a football team that was then, and remains to this day, more than a just a club. On the streets of this industrial Midlands town, they were celebrating a way of life. â??The supporters were parading up the streets about ten abreast, waving flags and banners,â?? Rangers defender Harold Davis recalled. â??It was fantastic. They stopped the whole city; there were thousands of people there.â?? April 19th 1961. That was the day The Rangers came to Wolverhampton town. Three weeks earlier, Wolves had visited Glasgow for the first leg of the battle for a place in the European Cup Winners Cup final. Interest in this cross-border clash of the giants was phenomenal. Rangers had sold out 80,000 tickets and, such was the demand, could easily have sold at least half that number again. The Wolves fans werenâ??t quite so keen to wander north, though, with less than a thousand making the trip. That nightâ??s Evening Citizen devoted its entire broadsheet front page to the match. The headline â??Guardians of Ibroxâ?? was emblazoned above a montage of pictures of the expected Rangers line-up that had been superimposed over the stadiumâ??s famous iron gates. Injuries to key players like Jimmy Millar, Ian McMillan and Max Murray had hampered Scot Symonâ??s team selection and he was forced into naming an experimental front line, featuring Doug Baillie at centre forward instead of his usual position of centre half. FA Cup holders Wolves were considered to be a strong, physical team more than capable of holding their own in a battle. In many ways they were similar in style to Rangers. But they too were under strength, with England international Peter Broadbent injured and the Scottish press predicted a win for the Scots. After just 10 minutes of a tough tackling encounter, Rangers suffered another injury blow, although it was purely down to bad luck. Harold Davis overstretched and pulled a muscle in his leg. After lengthy treatment, he returned to the pitch with his right thigh heavily strapped but in those days of no substitutes, Davis had to soldier on. He was moved to the right wing to keep him out of harmâ??s way and the Rangers front line was reshuffled again. Davis performed out of his skin to help the cause. â??In those days you had no substitutes so you either finished with ten men or with 11 and the injured player remained on the park. Even if you had a twisted ankle or something, you were better out of the way than actually in the middle of the park.â?? At this stage, even the most optimistic home supporter must have doubted whether a Rangers victory was likely. But 30 minutes into the first half, the Ibrox crowd erupted as Alex Scott scored a superb goal. After the break, the game flowed back and forth as one team then the other gained the upper hand. Davis refused to remain a passenger on the wing and on more than one occasion tracked back to help out the defence as well as getting involved in attacking moves for Rangers. Wolves exerted more pressure on the Scottish defence as they sought the equaliser and Ritchie justified his selection by pulling off a string of saves. Then with just six minutes to go, Ralph Brand pounced on a mistake by Wolves and smashed home a low, hard shot past the goalkeeper to give Rangers a two goal lead to take to the Midlands. The Rangers players and supporters were delighted at the win, especially as it had come in such difficult circumstances. Not everyone appreciated the efforts of injury victim Harold Davis, though. â??There was a comment made at the speeches after the game,â?? Davis remembered. â??The opposition manager Stan Cullis said something like, â??If that guy who got injured and played on the wing was seriously hurt then Iâ??m a bloody Dutchman.â?? I ended up on the wing and I made a contribution and he didnâ??t like it.â?? The second leg was to take place four days after the annual clash between Scotland and England in the Home International championship. This year the match was being played at Wembley, and as usual thousands of Scots travelled to London for the match. Many planned to return home via Black Country and take in the Rangers game at Molineux. Wembley was a disaster. Scotland suffered a humiliating 9-3 defeat. It was now down to Rangers to restore some pride in the Scottish game. Despite the huge prize at stake â?? the finalists would make at least £20,000 from their appearance in the final â?? there were warm words from the English club towards their Rangers before the match. The programme notes for the game showed the respect they had for their Scottish visitors. â??Since we qualified for one of the comparatively new international cup tournaments we have been privileged to receive on our ground some distinguished clubs from other countries. None of them however have been more welcome visitors to Molineux than the famous Rangers whom we see here tonight. Rangers are among the elite in Scottish football and all of us at Molineux are eagerly looking forward to seeing them. â??What we can promise is another 90 minutes of hard football in which this time the roars from the terraces will be urging the English side into action just as the tremendous crowd at Ibrox sought to inspire their favourites three weeks ago. Those who were privileged to be there on that occasion will not hurriedly forget either the scene, or the sound, as the crowd roared Rangers into action.â?? The bookmakers were offering odds of 5-2 against Rangers winning, but Wolves had a magnificent home record that season, losing just one of their 17 matches at Molineux. Molineux was barely a stoneâ??s throw from the town centre and, after congregating for some time for a singsong outside the hotel where Rangers had based themselves, the Scots fans marched to the ground to claim their spot on the terraces. From the start of the match to the end, the Rangers supporters roared on their team, to the amazement of the local fans. The local Express and Star newspaper said the thousands of visitors â??helped give the scene an atmosphere that has not been matched since the famous floodlit specials of â??54.â?? In their famous old gold jerseys, Wolves had the better of the opening exchanges, with Rangers were limited to breakaways. But as the half progressed the Scots managed to gain more of a territorial advantage. Davie Wilson, one of three Rangers players who had appeared against England, was out to make amends for the Wembley fiasco and put in a man of the match performance. Just before half time Alex Scott and Ralph Brand combined to score and send the Rangers fans into delirium. Latching onto a long clearance from the Rangers penalty area, Brand managed to evade the challenge of defender Bill Slater and broke away, before laying it onto the path of Scott, who carefully placed it beyond the â??keeper. The cheers of the travelling fans were still reverberating around Molineux when Billy Ritchie was forced to pull off a magnificent diving save from a long range shot. The save, which was greeted with almost as big a roar as the goal, broke English hearts. Wolves eventually found a way through with a goal midway through the second half, but they would have needed another two to take the tie to extra time and, despite wave after wave of attack, that never looked likely. Finally the final whistle blew, and Rangers were in the final. Their fans spilled onto the pitch to celebrate their victory. The tolerant Wolverhampton constabulary stood back and let the delighted Scots enjoy their fun as hundreds of fans hugged their triumphant heroes and carried them shoulder-high down the tunnel. Others danced with joy in front of the main stand before lining up in formation and starting a victory parade back through the streets to the town centre, where the late trains were waiting to carry them back north. â??We had a fantastic result,â?? said Harold Davis. â??Wolves were a great team in those days and that was one of our really good results. We were definitely helped by the fans. The backing of all those supporters was really super.â?? The victory took Rangers into the final of the Cup Winners Cup, the first British club team to reach a major European final. Birmingham City had played in the previous yearâ??s Fairs Cup final, but technically they were a representative team appearing in a competition that was only open to cities that hosted trade fairs. Having overcome teams from Hungary, Germany and England, Rangers now faced their biggest test against the Italians of Fiorentina. Taken from Follow On: 50 Years of Rangers in Europe

In the Scottish Cup of 1884 / 85, Rangers drew with Third Lanark 2-2 and then 0-0 in the replay. At that time, the rules were different and no third match at a neutral venue was needed. Both teams simply went into the draw for the next round. Then, Rangers drew Third Lanark again, away at Cathkin, and lost 3-0!

In the 1892 Scottish Cup Final, played at Ibrox between Celtic and Queen's Park, the ground's new, increased capacity of 36,000 was broken when 5,000 fans stormed the gates which were then closed, leaving 2,000 people outside. During the match, with thousands causing chaos by encroaching on to the pitch, an attempted robbery of the match takings was foiled by Rangers' trainer, John Taylor, who beat off the crooks!

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of the game, resulting in much higher attendances, Gers jumped at the chance to move to a new ground. As it was a larger site, the club accepted the offer by its landlord of the land adjacent to First Ibrox. So, on 9th December, 1899 Gers played the final fixture there defeating Killie 6-1. On December 30th the club moved to its new ground ( the present stadium) and started off a new era with a 3-1 win over Hearts.

The club's first professional cyclists' sports was held at Ibrox in August 1894. A crowd of 14,000 watched cyclists from Britain, America and Europe competing

who is left in the competition?

Maybe the team should stay away as well no chance of catching anything that way

statement fixed the one on twitter was incomplete

Unified Supporters Platform Calls For Boycott Written by Admin Monday, 01 October 2012 20:12 The Unified Supporters Platform calls on the Rangers support to withdraw its financial input to any SPL club by boycotting the next round of the League Cup, drawn on 4th October, should our opposition be ANY Scottish Premier League club away from home. Since the turn of the year, Rangers FC and its supporters have been abused, maligned, derided and disrespected by the supporters and certain hierarchy of SPL member clubs. These cowardly clubs, who decided Rangers were not needed in the SPL, attempted to destroy us when we had reached our lowest ebb. Unfortunately for them, and to their bitter displeasure, the Rangers survived this trauma. We are stronger than ever and our magnificent history continues unbroken. Our supporters have waited patiently for apt opportunity to respond to some of the poisoned hatred and unrepentant vitriol directed, both at them and the club, by starving SPL clubs of much-needed cash. By boycotting this potential fixture the message the support sends out is loud and clear; “Their hate-filled stance against our club and its support will never be forgotten”. For once our support must unite like never before to send out this clear message, we have to show we mean business. This statement has been endorsed by the following:The Rangers Supporters Assembly The Rangers Supporters Association RangersUnite Rangers Till I Die N.I Vanguard Bears Copland Road.org Blue Heaven Union Bears Number One Fanzine

I did as well!

i am a glaswegian living in England and they think we are fucking bonkers going on about an orange jersey. 252 posts and still loving the colour orange

why tell anybody anything A lot of fans want an orange jersey including me otherwise out will come the old Orange one from the cupboard

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