BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 1978: Celtic’s Tommy Burns, above, and Rangers’ Alex Miller were sent off as Rangers clinched their spot in the League Cup Final with a 3-2 win over Celtic at Hampden. ALSO , NOW YOU KNOW COLIN (Baillieston) – Rangers’ match against Vorwarts Berlin in 1961 had to be played in Sweden because the German side were not given visas for the UK. Could you please tell me more about this? I know they were based in East Berlin at the time, before uprooting and moving to Frankfurt.Vorwarts were originally from Leipzig. They did move to East Berlin where they were situated when they played Rangers. Later they would, indeed, relocate to Frankfurt.In 1961-62, Vorwarts were refused visas to travel to Britain. This, of course, was during the Cold War, and just after the building of the Berlin Wall. In order to stage the second leg, Rangers would have to give up home advantage in Glasgow and play the tie in a non-NATO country. Malmo in Sweden was the chosen venue.In the first leg in Berlin, Rangers won 2-1. The second leg was played on Wednesday, November 22, 1961. The game had to be abandoned at halftime because of the fog with Rangers leading 1-0. A problem now arose regarding re-staging the game. As the German visas ran out the next day, it was arranged to play the following morning, and Rangers won this game 4-1, to make the aggregate score 6-2.(Troops I found this really interesting , just thought I'd share as I never knew this before ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTP 3 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Cheers for this. Never knew this either. Funny old game eh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdasyn 431 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 It was played the next morning? Imagine that these days! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delamonty 992 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Great post! Interesting indeed! Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minstral 5,375 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 The replayed game was played in the morning too, I think it was a 10am kick off and the crowd was really low. I think this game is the only Rangers home European game prior to 1990 I don't have the programme for.Sam the crowd was 1,781. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293 Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 Wonder if the Colin mentioned in the article is MrC ( He seems to like his quizzes ) and the article would be some question to ask Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManchestGer 347 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Thats an interesting one, had never heard of that. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 So nobody has replied a post saying they knew these facts , must be someone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumbria_blue 51 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I knew about the Vorwaerts game being played the next day. It's mentioned in a Rangers miscellany that I have Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayboleLoyal_atb 3,770 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Cheers for posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUEDIGNITY 33,708 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 1978: Celtic’s Tommy Burns, above, and Rangers’ Alex Miller were sent off as Rangers clinched their spot in the League Cup Final with a 3-2 win over Celtic at Hampden. ALSO , NOW YOU KNOW COLIN (Baillieston) – Rangers’ match against Vorwarts Berlin in 1961 had to be played in Sweden because the German side were not given visas for the UK. Could you please tell me more about this? I know they were based in East Berlin at the time, before uprooting and moving to Frankfurt.Vorwarts were originally from Leipzig. They did move to East Berlin where they were situated when they played Rangers. Later they would, indeed, relocate to Frankfurt.In 1961-62, Vorwarts were refused visas to travel to Britain. This, of course, was during the Cold War, and just after the building of the Berlin Wall. In order to stage the second leg, Rangers would have to give up home advantage in Glasgow and play the tie in a non-NATO country. Malmo in Sweden was the chosen venue.In the first leg in Berlin, Rangers won 2-1. The second leg was played on Wednesday, November 22, 1961. The game had to be abandoned at halftime because of the fog with Rangers leading 1-0. A problem now arose regarding re-staging the game. As the German visas ran out the next day, it was arranged to play the following morning, and Rangers won this game 4-1, to make the aggregate score 6-2.(Troops I found this really interesting , just thought I'd share as I never knew this before ) Only after the Second leg at Ibrox was cancelled after 45 minutes because of fog ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterC 12,401 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Wonder if the Colin mentioned in the article is MrC ( He seems to like his quizzes ) and the article would be some question to ask Wasn't me, I live the other side of town in upper linthouse! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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