DAVIE COOPER was regarded by many Rangers fans as one of their greatest-ever players, but he also had legendary status at his other clubs, Clydebank and Motherwell...
OLD BANKIE - Rangers supporters like to refer to Davie Cooper as the "The Great Davie Cooper of Rangers", but Coop was "Great" before he went to Ibrox. The season prior to his move to Rangers, Bankies took Gers to four games in a cup tie. Rangers then paid £100,000 to get Coop to join them. Details please.
This was a two-legged Scottish League Cup quarter-final in the 1976-77 season.
At this time, the initial stages of the competition were played in group format.
Clydebank qualified from a section containing Alloa Athletic, Queen of the South and Dunfermline Athletic. Rangers topped a section containing St Johnstone, Hibernian and Montrose.
In the quarter-final, first leg at Ibrox, the score was Rangers 3 (Johnstone, MacDonald, Hamilton), Clydebank 3 (Larnach, McColl penalty, Cooper).
The second leg at Kilbowie also ended in a draw - Clydebank 1 (Cooper), Rangers 1 (Greig). Rangers won the toss to stage the replay, which ended goal-less.
The second replay was played at neutral Firhill, Rangers winning 2-1 with goals from Parlane and McKean. Cooper again scored for the Bankies.
Rangers went on to lose to Aberdeen in the semi-final, with the Pittodrie side defeating Celtic in the final.
STUART (Cathcart) - Is it true that every team Celtic met on their run to the Uefa Cup final in 2003, in Seville, had the letter "V" in their name?
The teams that Celtic met and defeated in the competition were as follows:
FK Suduva, Blackburn Rovers, Celta de Vigo, Vfb Stuttgart, Liverpool, and Boavista.
So you are correct, every team they met on the way to the final did indeed have a "V" somewhere in their name.
In the final itself, Celtic met Porto, with no "V" anywhere to be seen, and lost 3-2.
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