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Barcelona

The Greatest Day in the History of Rangers FC

Tom Miller author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Published:28th Oct '21

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the greatest season in Rangers FC history, Barcelona gives fans a unique insight into an astonishing victory and new stories of a golden era in the history of Rangers Football Club.

Celebrating the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the greatest victory in Rangers FC history, when Rangers won the European Cup Winners Cup in Barcelona, Tom Miller is joined by key players as they recall their shared memories of this unique and astonishing victory in Europe.

The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the greatest victory in the history of Rangers Football Club when, on 24 May 1972, Rangers won the European Cup Winners' Cup in dramatic style in Barcelona. That evening in Spain will forever live in the hearts of Rangers fans as their greatest day.

Now, in conversation with a roll call of the great and good from that glorious day, Tom Miller looks back on the campaign that culminated in Rangers winning their only major European trophy.

Willie Johnston recalls the revolutionary tactics that served them well on their travels, starting against Rennes in France. John
Greig revisits the bizarre events of the match in Lisbon when Rangers thought they had been eliminated by Sporting. Alex
MacDonald claims he still has the bruises from his exertions in the quarter-final against Torino, and Derek Parlane tells of his shock at being called into the starting line-up against Bayern Munich just before his 19th birthday.

And for the final itself, Peter McCloy - who played every competitive game for Rangers in that historic season - evokes that special chemistry which delivered the winning formula against Russian giants FC Dynamo Moscow.

For the first time these Rangers legends share their memories together, making Barcelona an essential read on a golden era for Rangers Football Club.

ISBN: 9781785303579

Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 25mm

Weight: 535g

304 pages