Dave McPherson

The inevitable hat trick arrived four minutes after the interval.

Scott Nisbet feeding Dave McPherson who shrugged off the attention of Kevin Brinkle to set McLeist up for a precise finish.

four minutes, McCoy started and finished the move, which brought his fourth, Dale Gordon and Ian Ferguson in supporting roles, and McCoy's again the main man.

Yeah, those were the days, eh? Those were the days.

And maybe I did that mischievously with that wee question at the end of the last one.

So, September 23rd, 1981, 17-year-old Dave McPherson makes his Rangers debut against Brecon City in a League Cup second leg tie at Ibrox in front of just 5,000 people.

I was one of them.

Was it a 1-0 game, I think it was? Yeah, finished 1-0 in the John McDonnell, I think it's called.

So, Dave McPherson, two spells as a Rangers player, came through the youth system.

I think his as a Rangers player, I can almost split into three, even though he played for us twice.

Because you've got the pre-soonest unsuccessful years that he played under John Gregg and John Laws, then you've got One season under Souness, when it all came right, and he was playing in a much better team, and he actually scored a few goals that season.

That was a, and it's quite funny because the, I've got highlights of the first four goals in the game, but then there was a power cut in the stadium and everything went out and the cameras didn't work.

... you know, in Edinburgh, but that's a big step up from Hearts to Rangers.

You talk to Dave McPherson or Alan McLaren, these guys-

Yeah

... that have, have done it in the past, they'll tell you that, that the, the kinda goldfish bowl in Glasgow is different.