Rangers Win the Cup Winners’ Cup

OTD E0205 — 24 May 1972: Rangers beat Dynamo Moscow 3–2 at Camp Nou to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup — despite not having won the Scottish Cup that got them there. This episode traces the Cup Winners’ Cup’s origins, Celtic’s 1971 double, Rangers’ runner-up route into Europe, the campaign through Rennes, Sporting, Torino and Bayern Munich, the final in Barcelona, the pitch invasion, UEFA’s ban, the Barcelona Bears, and why the Cup Winners’ Cup eventually disappeared.Ideas: [email protected]