Allan McGregor set for Rangers full circle as he aims to recreate Walter Smith endorsed Red Star heroics

There's a generation of Rangers fans who weren't even born the last time the Ibrox side faced Red Star Belgrade.

If that doesn't make Allan McGregor feel old then nothing will.

15 years on from the sides' last meeting in a 2007 Champions League playoff, McGregor looks set to start between the sticks yet again. He'll make his 430th appearance for the Ibrox side.

96 of those have been in Europe; four more, and he'll become the first Rangers player ever to break 100. A quarter-final place this year and he'll likely be given the chance to do just that.

It was only his 14th though when he travelled to Serbia under Walter Smith, in his first full season as the undisputed first-choice keeper.

And while it was Nacho Novo who lapped up all the credit for his late Ibrox strike that ultimately sealed their progress, there's not much debate over who the hero of the second leg was.

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Smith, then just at the beginning of his second spell in charge, was typically low-key in his assessment after the 0-0 draw in Belgrade.

"I thought that we team-wise worked very hard," he said after the game that sent them into the Champions League proper.

"It was always an awkward game for us, right from the very start. They