By Jeff Holmes

Glasgow Rangers begun the yr within the doldrums - they usually stayed there for an outstanding few months, suffering to make 5th spot in a ten-team league. That was once until eventually the dramatic occasions of Tuesday, eight April 1986. From that day ahead, Glasgow Rangers replaced ceaselessly; Graeme Souness observed to that. clean from Serie A - which at the moment was once most likely the hardest league on the earth - Souness got here domestic to Scotland to develop into Rangers' player/manager; he took the membership by way of the scruff of the neck and did not cease shaking till he'd made them the simplest staff in Scotland - and by means of a long way. He reversed the craze of the simplest Scottish avid gamers heading south to ply their alternate in England, and inspired the English trio of Terry Butcher, Chris Woods and Graham Roberts to go to Ibrox. It was once the yr Souness gave Rangers supporters again their swagger. With new insightful interviews with the major avid gamers, leader protagonists and people who have been on the middle of the turnaround, 1986: The Rangers Revolution tells the total tale of what occurred at Ibrox in 1986, really a yr to be a Ranger!

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1986: Rangers Revolution: The Year Which Changed the Club by Jeff Holmes