History serves Rangers an ask of savage cruelty to prove the most wicked temptress of all - Keith Jackson

Ultimately and with a sense of unspeakable cruelty, history asked for more than Rangers were able to give.

Having travelled so far and been backed by such numbers, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his players found the door to sporting immortality slammed in their faces without an ounce of compassion.

A penalty miss by the man who was brought to the club to be the difference maker at the end of a penalty shoot-out will be the defining moment of Aaron Ramsey ’s short, unsatisfactory stay at Ibrox.

And that sums up the savagery of what took place in Seville.

Just when one last leap into the land of the legends was required, their Welshman’s legs buckled beneath him.

And Rangers were taken down at the knees by an Eintracht Frankfurt team who claimed this destiny for their own.

The heartbreak suffered was confirmation that history can be the most wicked temptress of them all.

Beckoning them forward with a seductive curl of a finger but never letting them get close enough to actually reach out and take it.

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