13,365 watched Sammy Reid score the only goal of the tie and brought the downfall of the Scottish big wigs who had been Scottish Cup winners in the previous season. The home team's player-manager was goalkeeper Jock Wallace who in his career also played for Hereford United in both the English and Welsh FA Cups. Wallace later went on to manage Glasgow Rangers, with some considerable style and success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnulhuyjzA This is grainy but does show Jock and the Berwick goal. AND YOU SHOULD SEE THIS! or at least the start!!
https://berwickrangers.com/50th-anniversary-berwick-rangers-1-0-glasgow-rangers/
Gary Lineker, broadcaster and former England captain, recalls the terror he felt when Jock Wallace, then manager of Leicester City, "pinned me against the dressing room wall at half-time and called me a lazy English this and that. We were 2–0 up and I'd scored both goals. I didn't score in the second half – I was still shaking!"
Mark Warburton, who later went on to also manage Rangers, said of his time as a youth player at Leicester City, that he took a dislike to the training methods of Wallace, later saying "he was a Marine". We had runs on sand-dunes, running until we threw up. I learned a lot from that.... never treat a player like that again"!
That season 55 matches were played by Glasgow Rangers who came second in the Scottish League Div 1 (top one), lost 3 matches in the league; once to Celtic and to Dunfermline Athletic TWICE.
ALSO in 1966-7: lost in the Final of the Scottish League Cup to Celtic 0-1, lost in the Final of European Cup Winners Cup to Bayern Munich 0-1.
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