Rangers' Europa League dream has much more to overcome than just Eintracht Frankfurt - Hugh Keevins

It was almost 11pm on Wednesday night and the final caller on the line was in Washington DC.

He wanted to congratulate Celtic on becoming league champions and outline his strategy to help derail Rangers in the Europa League Final next Wednesday.

The caller’s father, Jackie McGrory, had played for Kilmarnock against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1964, in a long discontinued European contest known as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

Killie won 5-1 in the first ever European tie played at Rugby Park. They were managed by Willie Waddell who, eight years later, would guide Rangers to the club’s so far only Euro trophy in Barcelona.

Now the caller is going to wear the strip his dad swopped for a Killie jersey at time-up 58 years ago and trust the family heirloom can send negative messages to Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his stars in Seville.

I was tempted to say the shirt didn’t do much good for Frankfurt when they visited Ayrshire.

But that’s not the point.

Malky Mackay was bang on the money when he said Rangers’ European final appearance this week brings gravitas back to Scottish football.

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Money being the operative word.

Celtic and Rangers could bank £100m between them if both reach the group stage of the