Popular Post The Moonlighter 3,602 Posted May 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2019 ‘’Thus ended their first match played at the latter end of May 1872 some two months after the inauguration of the club’’. The words of Rangers player William Dunlop from his article The Rangers FC which he wrote so eloquently for the SFA Annual in 1881 using the pen name ‘True Blue’. Rangers Football Club played it’s first ever match 147 years ago this week. Our Club was formed on a spare bit of ground at Fleshers Haugh by a few kids who’d come to Glasgow seeking employment and a better way of life. Their Club ,which they formed for no other reason than the love of football and the pursuit of sporting excellence, would go on to become the world’s most successful. That first ever match was against Callander and ended 0-0, Willie continued, “Their first game was a terrible spectacle with the ball suffering an incredible amount of abuse” William McBeath was given man of the match and then spent a week in bed recovering due to his exertions’’ Founder William McBeath was from Callander and we believe it would have been Willie who approached ex-pats from the town who had settled in Glasgow and that’s probably where the opposition came from for our first match. Willie’s Rangers team-mate Sam Ricketts wrote in 1884 about the boys playing those first few games in their civvies and journalist John Allan wrote about them having to change behind a bush as there were no facilities. William Dunlop described how genial Peter McNeil would travel on a Saturday morning to a desirable part of the Glasgow Green, set up the noted standards and stand guard until the classic hour came when he would be joined by his friends. We felt this was a very dramatic and moving image and commissioned a painting to be done depicting this scene.We presented the painting by artist Helen Runciman to the Club in 2009 and it now hangs on the marble staircase at Ibrox. The Rangers would remain at Fleshers Haugh for three years . They then began their journey around Glasgow to Burnbank and Kinning Park before finally settling in the Ibrox area in 1887. The Rangers FC by William Dunlop. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-Rangers-f-c-by-true-blue BookWorm, BridgeIsBlue, BlueAvenger and 14 others like this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Inigo 27,948 Posted May 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2019 6 hours ago, The Moonlighter said: “Their first game was a terrible spectacle with the ball suffering an incredible amount of abuse” William McBeath was given man of the match and then spent a week in bed recovering due to his exertions’’ Proud to have something in common with a founding father. First game of 5s for ages last week. Pffff. Could barely brush my teeth for 3 days. BridgeIsBlue, LiverpoolBlue, Thermopylae and 4 others like this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae 12,378 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Mighty oaks from little acorns grow magic8ball, BookWorm, 16BlueSherbert90 and 1 other like this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popbear 1 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Inigo said: Proud to have something on common with a founding father. First game of 5s for ages last week. Pffff. Could barely brush my teeth for 3 days. 😂😂😂😂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic8ball 23,945 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Often think what it must have been like for these guys back in the day . What level did they ever intend themselves playing at and what they thought in their later years when they saw what the club evolved into . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courtyard Bear 41,357 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Love that bit in the report. “that the game was a terrible spectacle with the ball suffering an incredible amount of abuse”. 😂 nothing much changed in Scottish Football then LiverpoolBlue likes this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudrupsleftfoot 5,954 Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Sort of related but is Glenn Middleton on the Lafferty scale or what? Brutal interview showed at half time on Sunday with him, didn't know the year we were formed! When then asked to name a striker named in our all time 11 his first answer was Novo! Fuck me A modern version of that kit including the socks should be our away or third kit btw. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae 12,378 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Was thinking last night if there's one good thing to come from the last few years it's that we do seem to be more in touch with our history now than we were before the long road back. And why not even hollywood would struggle to come up with something better than 3 young rowers leaving the water to start playing the new game of football at Fleshers Haugh ... and the institution that what they began that day would become Bobby Hume and Blumhoilann like this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blumhoilann 6,398 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Socks wi 'hoops'? No thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddiqi_drinker 14,633 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Blumhoilann said: Socks wi 'hoops'? No thanks so this old strip would be a NO?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterC 10,776 Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Let's not forget that the idea for the club was conceived at what is now Kelvingrove Park. Bobby Hume likes this Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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