Somewhere in a long-since lost digital camera is a photograph of me, Sandy Jardine, Colin Jackson and Peter McCloy holding a replica of the 1972 European Cup-Winners' Cup.
Okay, they held the real thing, in the Nou Camp and Ibrox and on the flight between the two, but that day in the Rangers Shop in St Enoch Shopping Centre was marred for me, not by a Guardia Civil baton charge but by noticing how poorly the replica imitated the beautifully distinctive real thing.*
Click here for the shorter, website version of my piece in When Saturday Comes magazine issue 358 (December 2016).
*Of course, nothing could actually mar that moment of personal heaven, although the memory is slightly tarnished by Peter McCloy coming over to me - me who was only there as co-author of a book about the 1971-72 Cup-Winners' Cup campaign - and asking how many goals team-mate Colin Stein managed in our club's most successful European run. I couldn't remember. The Girvan Lighthouse remained polite but, as he returned to join his fellow legends attending to a queue of autograph hunters, Peter beamed incredulity.
(It was five, Peter... he scored five...)
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