From potential history makers to pitiful no-hopers. Not every team can make such a mystifying, retrograde transition in such a short space of time.
But Rangers managed it last night when they hit rock bottom in a one-horse outpost on the outskirts of Brussels, two months after storming all the way to the shoulder of immortality in Seville like some force of football nature.
If they thought they could rest on their laurels on the back of last season’s rampaging run across the continent in the Europa League, then now they know different.
They face the minnows of Union Saint-Gilloise back at Ibrox next week in serious danger of disgracing themselves, not to mention costing their club a winning ticket for the Euro millions.
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