Follow on: Fifty Years of Rangers in Europe - Hardcover

Duff, Iain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905769032 ISBN 13: 9781905769032

Publisher: Fort Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

As in so many other areas Rangers have led the way in
Continental competition. The first Scottish club to reach a European final.
The first Scottish club to compete in the European Super Cup. The first
Scottish club to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League. And of
course the greatest achievement of them all: winning the European Cup
Winners Cup in 1972 after defeating more quality sides in one season than
any other Scottish club.
This compelling book tells the story of the club's fifty years in Europe
from the early days of European competition in 1956 to the Champions League
of 2006. There is coverage of every game played by Rangers in that period
and as might be expected the drama is unrelenting as Rangers go head to
head with some of the biggest names in football.
There are valuable insights from many Rangers legends, who were interviewed
specially for this book: Harold Davis, Eric Caldow, Kai Johansen, Sandy
Jardine, Alex MacDonald, Dave McPherson, Robert Prytz, Bobby Russell.
Then there are the loyal Rangers fans. They followed on from Belgrade to
Bruges, Faroes to Florence, Kiev to Katowice, Valetta to Vladikavkaz and
Zabrze to Zizkov. Their stories are often hair-raising, invariably
hilarious, and include encounters with working girls in Spain, an impromptu
Orange Walk in Amsterdam, a battle in Newcastle and attacks by IRA
sympathisers in Dublin. There is also the moving story of how thousands of
Rangers fans enchanted the people of Wolverhampton with their singing and
their reverence for the Union Jack.

About this title

From the Publisher

Duff uses all his journalistic skill to create a vivid insight
into a half-century of European campaigns. It is an honest account both of
the club's many triumphs and of its disappointments. But it is much more
than just a football book. This is a piece of social history and it charts
with warmth and wit exactly how much the club means to the supporters who
followed on, even to the far-flung outposts of the Continent. Their loyalty
and devotion to Rangers can never be questioned.

About the Author

Iain Duff is an award-winning journalist who has written for
newspapers in England and Scotland. In 1997 at the age of just twenty-five
he was appointed the chief reporter of Glasgow's Evening Times. The same
year he won the prestigious UK Press Gazette Scoop of the Year award and
was nominated as Scotland's young journalist of the year. Duff (a
commmitted bluenose who first watched Rangers in Europe at the age of
seven) is now the managing editor of the Press Association in Scotland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fort Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905769032
• ISBN 13: 9781905769032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240