ABERDEEN’S DARVEL COMICS
For many a year, the gold standard in Scottish Cup shocks was generally accepted to be the 1-0 first-round defeat inflicted on Rangers in 1967 by their second-tier namesakes from Berwick. Rangers were the holders at the time, had never lost in the first round, had never been beaten by lower-league opposition … oh, and had three years earlier tried to force through a league reconfiguration that would have jettisoned Berwick back into the non-league shadows from which they had only recently emerged. The fact Berwick are English added a further level of ignominy, although given Rangers see themselves very much as a UK-wide concern, perhaps we’re lending that particular fact more weight than it deserves.
