THERE was a time when Colin Stein, all-action striker and the first £100,000 player traded between two Scottish clubs when Rangers bought him from Hibs in October 1968, could not stop scoring goals.

He began his Ibrox career with two hat-tricks and a further two goals in his first three matches, plus a four-goal haul against Cyprus in the 1969 World Cup qualifier at Hampden in 1969 – a record that still stands for a Scotland striker.

Forty-six years ago, however, it was his goal against Hibs that everyone was talking about, as it clinched Rangers the 1975 league championship.

Talking to the Evening Times back in 2015, Colin recalled: “I got goals, and I could also run all day back then….”

Stein scored the opening goal in Rangers’ 1972 European Cup Winners Cup triumph over Moscow Dynamo, but left the Glasgow club only a few months later for Coventry City.

After three seasons at Coventry, Stein did return to Rangers but it was short-lived, and he left on loan to Kilmarnock, before hanging up his boots at the age of 31.