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I was at the top of the terracing near stairway 13 looking across at the well-to-do in the enclosure. The result was close but in truth Rangers were well beaten by an outstanding side. One of the best goalies I’ve ever seen, two competent tradesmen at fullback, bruisers at centre half and centre forward, at wing-half one architect and one enforcer, at inside forward one goal-maker and one goal-taker and a Welsh wizard on either wing. Perfectly balanced for skill, speed and robustness. The match had been postponed from the previous Wednesday because of fog. On the Saturday Rangers annihilated a good Kilmarnock side 6-0. On a gloomy ‘bus after the ‘Spurs game an old communist from Greenock (wearing his Balliol College tie) reckoned Killie got what ‘Spurs would have got if the original game had gone ahead. That’s the Left for you. Dreamers.

I attended the pre-season friendly at Ibrox against Spurs at the start of August'69. A large crowd watched an impressive Tottenham side including Pat Jennings, Cyril Knowles, Martin Chivers, Jimmy Greaves, Mike England, Alan Gilzean, Joe Kinnear, Alan Mullery and, Terry Venables. Rangers dominated the game and won 2-0, I believe Bud Johnson scored both? A week later, Everton were the visitors and the Toffees had a wonderful side. Joe Royle, Brian Labone, Howard Kendall, Alan Ball and, Colin Harvey. We won 2-1. David White put out entertaining Rangers teams. Reference the Great Revolution and all that goes with it. My Butler informs me we are all for it as long as I am appointed the GOC(General Officer Commanding) of the Vanguard of the Proletariat.

Dreamers we may be but better that than an old cynic. Come the revolution, there are a few on here prime candidates for re-education

We play like that on Sunday ,then we've nothing to worry about.

I had ordered a bottle of Rioja before Hastie started throwing up and I went outside with him, while I was tending to Hastie Alan came outside to remind me I hadn't paid for the wine 😂, fuck Hastie!!🤣

The Juju...

For those home late from Ibrox ... Igamane's goal

I thought Raskin was excellent and has been for a few games now. Igamane is becoming a player. I really like Jefte and he also is becoming an excellent player. All in all we never had a failure tonight. Now! let's go and win this cup on Sunday!.

Matched them very well, probably the better team, we have had a couple of half chances and working well. We need to keep up this tempo, if we do we could win this. Hopefully Souttar going off is a precautionary sub?.

Thank god he is...

Manager didn't give much away in his presser but he did mention rotation due to Sunday's cup final. As such, I do expect a few changes tonight with the Celtic game in mind. Might not be as drastic as image below as subs can always be made. For example, there is no real reason why the likes of Jefte and Sterling in particular can't play up to an hour tonight and still start on Sunday. It also wouldn't surprise me to see Ridvan start up against Kuhn at Hampden in any case. Come on the Rangers!

I always thought all the 'commies' were at Cambridge😊.

Watched this from the old enclosure with my brother and father the old cup winners cup

Had the pleasure in Hasties company for a short while just the once, some guy.

Spurs haven't won the Challenge Cup. Score draw.

An outstanding team performance but Raskin, Dio, Tav and Igamane deserve special mention. Surprised at how well Diomande played. He really stepped up.

From the BBC match thread / analysis. James Tavernier has now been directly involved in 16 Europa League goals (10 goals, six assists). The only Englishman with more goal involvements is Man United's Marcus Rashford (18) and the only one with more such assists is Arsenal's Bukayo Saka (eight). The Rangers captain also made his 53rd appearance in the Europa League - the joint-most of any English player in the competition alongside Spurs great Steve Perryman.

Fantastic team performance, no failures tonight. Best we've played in a long time. Hate singling out players on a night like tonight, but Raskin and Tav were outstanding. That's the standard Rangers, keep it up.

What a game! Very unlucky not to come away with a win after a performance full of effort and no small amount of quality. Tactically we were well setup and, as we've seen a lot in Europe, we had that extra bite. Only negative the Souttar injury but so many more positives to take.

I can't fault them but we could have won that.

What a game.

It's nice play but I don't think Butland should be beaten there.

Butland gives me the fear.

An excellent first half for the most part and Bajrami really should have put us in front. Lots of good work putting Spurs under pressure and it's high risk at times. I do worry we won't manage to keep the energy up. Losing Souttar a big blow.

It's frustrating that we couldn't grab a goal that some of our play deserved.

Yeah, just as he is becoming 1 of our better players.

Don't know why, but I kept thinking Igamane wasn't in the Euro squad.

Freezing? One of my sons is out in Kazakstan, its -12 just after the game

I was unlucky enough to work with a lot of them. The tightest, laziest bunch you'd encounter, unless there was compensation to be claimed, then they'd get their arses in gear!.

When you look at the resources given to Spurs and then to us maybe there's something to be said for communism...

Two great teams and I was very young, with my first Rangers strip, but Spurs just that little bit better.

That's masons for you.🙂

Ach, he's nowhere near as bad a defender as some folk like to make out. Yes, he's had a few high profile errors over the years and his form earlier this season was woeful but as long as we cover him effectively with Barron or Raskin, then we should normally be able to cope. Spurs are a different proposition to Scottish teams and will be the best EL team we've faced this season as well by quite some distance (despite their recent patchy form). If I had to pick one game for Tav and one for Sterling it would probably be Spurs for the skipper and Celtic for Sterling.