Rangers set for multiple Champions League upgrades as Charles Green anthem call finally to be delivered

At the height of Charle’s Green’s bluff and bluster during his time in charge at Rangers, he vowed not to leave Ibrox until the Champions League theme tune was once again blaring out of the tannoy.

That was a decade ago when the prospect seemed like a pipe dream with Ally McCoist’s men struggling away from home in the fourth tier of Scottish football. Green’s comment could later be filed alongside his claim that Rangers were in talks with the Dallas Cowboys over a commercial partnership as he departed the building a year later.

Speaking back in October 2012, the Yorkshireman said: "My intention was to come in to the club, get the funding in place, make sure Rangers’ future was secured and then leave. That was my job but now I’m staying until I hear that Champions League anthem blaring out once again across Ibrox. That’s what the fans and the people here should be given and if that can be delivered maybe I’ll feel my job is complete.”

But with Green now a distant memory, that famous anthem IS set to be heard at Ibrox. It’s been a long time since the stirring strains of George Frideric Handel’s Zadok the Priest have been heard at Ibrox Stadium. A total of 4,277 days to be precise. But that wait will soon be over after Rangers booked their place in the Champions League playoff round.

That means Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s players will line up and the spine-tingling tune will blare out over the Govan ground’s PA system. It will be yet another milestone in the journey back from Scottish football’s bottom tier to the top.

The tune for UEFA’s premier competition was written by English composer Tony Britten, based on Handel’s anthem composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727, and it’s one every footballer