After securing 55 many considered, ourselves included, the Journey complete. After last night, we have to revise this and say that getting to the quarter finals of the Europa League for the first time in Scottish football history (it did begin life in 2009) is, now, for us, the true ending.
55 was our domestic journey, but getting back to the serious advanced stages of a major European competition is surely the truest demonstration of how far we have come since 2012.
Winning the league obviously was the big one, 55 was where it was.
But yet it’s Manchester we remember, not the specific league titles around it.
Getting to the quarters is a gigantic achievement – in 4 small months GVB has somehow matched Steven Gerrard’s 55 by getting us past Borussia and Red Star to hit the last 8.
And give us a serious shot at getting to another final.
And we have to say even being at the quarters in this day and age where the divide between the elite clubs and the rest of us is greater than ever, that we’ve taken one of them out and are in the last 8 of the cup is something we would never have expected after being horsed out by Malmo last year.
This really is it – we may get further than these quarters, we may overcome Braga for the semis, but in the here and now, we’ve really completed the loop.
We are Rangers, domestic and European heavyweights.
Long time since we could properly say that.
It’s amazing . I recall standing at Galabank versus Annan when got stabbed in the back . Now we are fully back where we belong . I have a little trepidation in relation to next phase , not Europe but when we have play the hammer checkers who hate us and have no problem kicking the
shit out of our players totally aided by the shocking officiating with no VAR. Onwards fir the Treble
To win 55 just 9 years after being dumped into the 4th tier was a truly remarkable achievement. But our record in Europe since Steven Gerrard arrived is absolutely incredible. The list of Europes finest clubs that we’ve beaten or knocked out is incredible and probably surpasses anything that we have achieved at any time in our history (with some notable exceptions). I keep thinking it can’t last but every year we just go again.
It’s the champions league music being played at Ibrox will signal the end of this journey. Nothing less.
Fair point Andy, it’s hard to disagree with that.
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