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With Muscat out, the hunt to find someone willing to work under Kevin Thelwell continues...

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💙Happy 47th Birthday Clint Hill. Joined #Rangers for free in 2016 from QPR and became the oldest debutant in club history at age 37. He played 32 games & scored 6 goals, notably a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Celtic, causing a ballgirl behind the goal to implode with rage.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ : #Rangers reach the League Cup semi final after beating Dundee 1-0 at Ibrox(37k). MotM Steven Davis scored. The team were booed off. Gio said "When you play well you get the applause but when you don't play well at a club like Rangers they should boo you"

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ : #Rangers become the 1st Scottish team to win a European game in Italy with a 3-2 win over Livorno in the opening Group A UEFA Cup tie at Stadio Armando Picchi. Charlie Adam scored his 1st goal for us, a 20yd volley, alongside Kris Boyd & Nacho Novo goals

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ : #Rangers go 12 League games unbeaten, in pursuit of our 7th domestic Treble, with a 3-0 win over Motherwell at Ibrox (49.3k). Goals came from Lorenzo Amoruso, Peter Lovenkrands and Ronald de Boer scored his 10th of the season. Mikel Arteta was MotM.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣1️⃣ : #Rangers go top of the League with 2-0 win over Hearts at Ibrox(36.4k). Ally McCoist scored his 10th goal of the season, and had a penalty saved, while £2m summer signing from Sampdoria, Alexei Mikhailichenko, scored his 1st competitive goal for the Club

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🗓 #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣3️⃣ : #Rangers beat Porto 2-1 at Ibrox in the 1st Leg of the European Cup-Winners’ Cup 2nd Round tie, at Ibrox. Goals from Sandy Clark and Dave Mitchell earned the Gers a lead to take to Portugal. Unfortunately we lost 1-0 away and lost on the away goals rule.

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🗓 #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ : #Rangers play Stoke City (0-0) in a benefit match for the Holditch Colliery Disaster. In appreciation we were gifted the Loving Cup, 1 of only 30 cast, with a request that we toast the Monarch at the 1st home game every year. A tradition we still honour.

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🟦 #Rangers 2-2 Dundee Utd
🟦 T. Aasgaard 25' ⚽
🟦 J. Tavernier 87' ⚽
🟧 K. Trapanovski 66'
🟧 C. Sibbald 75'
⏹️ Full-Time.

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🟦 #Rangers 1-0 Dundee Utd
🟦 T. Aasgaard 25' ⚽
⏸️ Half-Time

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Today's Starting XI. 🇬🇧

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🗓#OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ : #Rangers beat Raith Rovers 6-1 on Armed Forces Day at Ibrox(33.9k). The match is noteworthy for Lee McCulloch scoring our Clubs landmark 9000th goal in League competition. Other goals came from Kenny Miller, Kris Boyd, Nicky Law and Jon Daly scored twice

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ : #Rangers beat Liverpool 1-0 in a Friendly at Ibrox(27.4k). Danny Wilson started & Charlie Adam received a warm welcome from the bench. Lee McCulloch scored. Gerrard didn't feature. Ally said "I don't think the gap is as big as some would have us believe"

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🗓 #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ : The Barca Bears parade the ECWC Trophy as #Rangers once again face off against Dynamo Moscow, who we beat 3-1 in the UEFA Cup 2nd Rnd 1st Leg at Ibrox(45k). Lorenzo Amoruso, Michael Ball & Ronald de Boer scored. We won the 2nd Leg 4-1 and met PSG in R3.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣7️⃣ : #Rangers beat Dunfermline 7-0 at Ibrox(50k). Richard Gough made his debut days after re-joining. Fans chanted "Gazza must stay" after his MotM performance. Marco Negri scored 4 to take his tally to 22, Paul Gascoigne bagged a brace & Brian Laudrup scored

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣6️⃣ : #Rangers beat Falkirk 5-1 at Brockville. Robert Fleck scored his 3rd hat-trick of the season, followed by Davie Cooper & Ally McCoist goals. Terry Butcher scored a 1st League goal, unfortunately it was an OG. Cooper was MotM with a hand in 3 of the goals

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🗓 #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣8️⃣ : #Rangers become the 1st British Club to play 100 games in Europe, drawing 0-0 with UEFA Cup holders PSV Eindhoven in the European Cup 2nd Rnd 1st Leg at Ibrox(44k). We won 3-2 in the 2nd Leg to inflict PSV's 1st ever European home defeat. Up next, Köln.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ : A crowd of 104,679 attend Hampden to see the inauguration of the new £60k floodlights in operation. The occasion was marked by a friendly between #Rangers & Frankfurt, we lost 3-2. Harold Davis scored twice. Davis hit the bar & Brand missed a penalty.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ : #Rangers sign Billy Simpson from Linfield for a record £11.5k. Billy scored a hat trick on his 1st team debut versus East Fife, and over 9yrs at Ibrox, went onto score 172 goals in 260 games, winning 8 Trophies, including 3 League Titles & 1 Scottish Cup

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💙Happy 58th Birthday Davie Robertson. Joined #Rangers from Aberdeen for £970k in 1991, won 6 Titles in a row, 3 Scottish Cups & 3 League Cups, including a Treble. He played 250 games and scored 6 goals. His last game was winning #9IAR at Tannadice before joining Leeds for £500k

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ : #Rangers remain unbeaten and lay down a marker in the first Old Firm game of the season, and the 1st without fans, with a 2-0 win over Celtic at Parkhead. Connor Goldson scored twice to move us 4pts clear at the top of the League. Glen Kamara was MotM.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣9️⃣ : Champions #Rangers move top of the SPL with a 2-1 win over St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park. Kris Boyd equalised before Sasa Papac curled home the winner to remain unbeaten after 8 SPL games. Bougherra was dropped for returning late from International Duty

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ : Dado Prso continues his impressive start to his #Rangers career, taking his tally to 6, by scoring a brace in a 2-0 win over Motherwell at Fir Park. The win closed the gap with Celtic to 5pts. Alex McLeish's side didn't lose in the SPL again until April.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣8️⃣ : #Rangers beat Hearts 3-0 at Ibrox(49.7k). Rod Wallace bagged a brace alongside a Jonatan Johansson goal. Giovanni van Bronckhorst was MotM. Lorenzo Amoruso was sent-off late on for swinging at Davie Weir. Next up, Bayer Leverkusen away in the UEFA Cup.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ : European Golden Boot holder Ally McCoist comes off the bench to score the winner, his 24th goal of the season, in a 1-0 win over Hibs at Ibrox(40.9k). It was our 12th win in a row across 3 competitions. Next up, Leeds Utd in the inaugural #UCL qualifier.