50 Year Love Affair: A Rangers Fan's Story

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50 Year Love Affair: A Rangers Fan's Story

Author: Bob MacCallum

50 Year Love Affair: A Rangers Fan's Story

This book is written by a Rangers fan for Rangers fans. The book covers the last 50 years of Rangers’ history and so it should hopefully provoke memories in teenagers as well as in the older generation who witnessed the games and players described from the early 1960s until the end of season 2009/10.

In a way, this is a unique football book in that it describes the momentous matches and achievements of Rangers since 1960, not from a player or manager’s perspective, nor from a journalist’s, but from the point of view of an ordinary Rangers fan. Therefore, it is a very subjective account of the Rangers players, managers and games that have contributed to the history of that great club over the past 50 years.

This book takes the reader through the good times and the not-so-good times at Ibrox. Rangers being the world’s most successful club, means that the good times have far outnumbered the bad times over the past 50 years and the author has been there throughout to see all of them.

This journey down memory lane will celebrate the great side of the early 60s: Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow; Greig, McKinnon, Baxter; Henderson, McMillan, Millar Brand and Wilson as well as remind readers of the 4 European finals that Rangers has participated in. Famous European and domestic victories will be recorded, 9-in-a-row remembered as well as the darker times such as the Ibrox Disaster of 1971.

Apart from the author’s personal experiences of the last 50 years in following Rangers, he also shows us what was happening in his own life while these events were taking place. He admits that when trying to recall events in his own life he usually manages to do this when he associates these with what was happening to Rangers at the time. This book celebrates his life as well as that of the club that he has loved for over 50 years now.

Publisher

DB Publishing

ISBN

9781859838556

Price in GBP

Our price:

£9.99

About the Author

Since retiring as an English teacher, due to ill health, , Bob MacCallum has had the time to write about Rangers – an inseparable part of his life since childhood. Since 2001 he has had four books about Rangers published: The Best of the Blues, Rangers’ 50 Flags, Rangers’ Treble Kings and Hall of Fame: Rangers All-Time Greats. He has supported the club for over 54 years now and still gets as excited about going to a match as he did when Jim Baxter and Willie Henderson were playing at the time when he started going to games at Ibrox. Since then he has seen many Rangers’ legends contributing to the success of the club. He is a season ticket holder as well as a shareholder in the club.