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What makes a Rangers game truly 'great? An end-to-end cup final or a perfect performance? An Old Firm demolition or a European glory night? Or is it simply the prize that determines greatness? In 2019 the listeners of Heart and Hand - The Rangers Podcast provided the answer when they voted in their droves to determine the 50 greatest games in the long history of the club. Does Pittodrie 1987 outrank Parkhead 1999? Can any match eclipse Barcelona 1972?Martyn Ramsay gathers the fan experiences of these games, analyses the action, examines the historical context and seeks to understand why Rangers fans have voted in the way that they have, why others haven't resonated at all and what it says about how fans have cultivated the history of the most successful club in world football.

Once Graeme Souness walked into the Ibrox Blue Room, nothing would be the same again. What followed wasn’t just a successful season for long-suffering fans. Nor was it something inevitable. What followed was a revolution. This is a story about change. About how Scottish football’s biggest club was transformed and how it then transformed Scottish football. About how old rules and traditions were ripped up, no matter the emotional cost. It is not simply a story about goals, saves and transfers. It is one formed by a time of great political and social modernisation which also saw a shift in how ordinary fans consumed the game and found their own voice. This was the most successful and exciting era in Rangers history. One where fans felt that anyone could be signed and everything could be won.The sky was the limit! Or rather, Sky was. Amid all the glory, there was tension. Did Rangers drive change or were they were shaped by it? Why did their modernisation stop just as it exploded elsewhere? One thing is the revolution that was born in 1986 was over by 1992. Here is how it happened.