Is there one to rival them in the ‘Oddterium’ Rangers? Club historians will have a lot to say about it.
In the most recent memory, it is worth mentioning the 2021-22 Gio Van Bruckhorsst side. They reached the Europa League final that season, they only lost sanctions.
They beat Borussia Dortmund by Mats Hummels, Raphael Guerreiro and Jude Bellingham, then the RB Leipzig de Konrad Laimer, Josko Gvardiol, Dani Olmo and Dominik Szoboszlai.
A lost penalty in the final shooting against one side of Eintracht Frankfurt then broke and sold for serious money was all that stopped them.
All those massive nights against heavy hitters in Europe and had to settle for second place in the Premier League Scottish for the new Celta team of Ange Postecoglou.
However, there are great differences between that team and today’s rangers. Van Bruckhorst’s lot fought hard at the national level, lost the league for only four points and won the Scottish Cup.
They were never as far from the rhythm in Scotland as the current crew, and never showed the incredible type of turbulence that has been so generalized this season.
Winston Churchill described the geopolitics of the former Soviet Union as a riddle wrapped in a mystery within an enigma, a description that could be stolen and applied to the twin personalities of this riff outfit.
Fenerbahce, like others before them, gave time and space to the Rangers with the non -unreasonable premise that a team that is not good enough to score against the second level opposition in Scotland is likely to cause too many problems.
Big mistake. Enormous. They considered without the Jekyll and Hyde, the National Rangers and the European Rangers, the Rangers that have the devil’s own work to break defensive equipment in the Premier League but are like children in sweet stores in Europe when there is space and capacity for counterattack.
The pose typified the effort: Pavadas, lethal and head and shoulders ahead of the most famous strikers at the other end.
Ferguson and their coaches deserve great credit for a change of training to three in the back, which worked well. For sending their team belief when those players had reasons not to believe.
And to deliver a massive result that establishes a night of pulse healing in Ibrox next Thursday. Bonkers, but brilliantly.
