European Cup

In Part One of Profit for the Pitch, we ran through Rangers’ rise to nine consecutive League Flags, Celtic’s reconstruction under Fergus McCann and the moment Celtic stopped Rangers from winning ten titles in a row. But the end of Rangers’ domestic dominance did not end their ambition. If Scotland could no longer provide the financial scale to match Europe’s biggest clubs, Rangers would have to find another way. Could Rangers buy their way into Europe’s elite — and how could