A Rangers fan has passed on a flag handed to him as a child in 2007 to a fellow young supporter while on his way back from the Europa League final in Seville.
When Lewis Nicol was 10 years old he travelled to Barcelona for a Champions League tie with dad David.
After watching his team lose out to the Spanish side, he left the stadium feeling dejected - but this soon changed after receiving the token from the stranger.
It was a special flag from the Glasgow side's 1972 Cup Winners Cup triumph over the Spaniards - and it came with a special instruction for young Lewis.
David, 51, told the Record: "He asked Lewis 'did you enjoy the football wee man?' and he just replied, 'yeah, it was okay'.
"The man then said, 'this was my dad's flag, he bought it when Rangers won the Cup Winners Cup in 1972'.
"'I've done my duty and brought it back here, which is what he wanted me to do and what I want you to do.
"Lewis seemed to appreciate the gesture and after being disheartened about Rangers losing, was made up for a wee bit.
"He gave us the flag and Lewis has kept it and cherished ever since then."
Lewis, now 24, added: "He said he wanted to pass it over to me hopefully I'd be able to take it with me to a European Final one time in my life.
"The guy, I'm assuming his dad has passed away, told me to look after it and that it would hopefully bring me some luck in the future
"At the time, I thought this was really cool but it wasn't until I got a wee bit older, I realised how special that flag would have been.
"I realised how much importance and sentimental value it would have had for the stranger who had passed it on to me."
The father-son duo, from Wishaw, made their way to Spain again with the intention of watching the Europa League final earlier this month.
When the pair were in Albufeira, Portugal, in the few days after the game, Lewis soon spotted 11-year-old Callan from Prestwick.
He said: "Me and my dad came out an Indian restaurant and wee Callan was walking down the street while singing a Rangers song.
"I thought it was class and pulled him over, told him I had a present for him and that I'd meet him there the next day and give him it.
"I never forgot the guy who had done it for me originally so I thought it was only right after seeing wee Callan belting out his tune."
Callan's mum, Shona Forsyth, 46, also told the Record: "He was really excited about it, He kept saying 'I can't believe it, I can't believe it'.
"'I'm going to get this flag from Barcelona '72, I can't believe that this is happening to me.
"I told Callan not to get his hopes up because Lewis said he would meet us tomorrow and he might not appear.
"I just thought that when he's a little more sober he might say 'what have I said?" so we basically just avoided the strip that night."
Shona continued: "As soon as we got to the strip in Albufeira, the first person who we saw was Lewis and he had the flag with him.
"Callan was absolutely over the moon and we took lots of pictures with it and he was just delighted that he had managed to get it.
"He made a promise to Lewis that he would take the flag with him to the next Cup Final to bring us luck and pass it on later in life."
Shona says that out of the whole family of supporters, Callan is the most "Rangers-daft" one of them.
She explained: "He walks around all the time with his Rangers gear on, you hear him lying in his bed singing Rangers songs to himself.
"On the flight from there, he was sitting beside me and I'm not exaggerating for three hours, he sang the same song all the way over.
"During the Scottish Cup, Callan had taken it out and was waving it about when Rangers scored the first goal.
"Then he carefully folded it up into a tiny thing, put it in my bad and then put it my bag.
"I sent a video to Lewis, saying he has never folded a single thing in his life and look how meticulously he is folding this flag.
"So safe to say, he definitely knows the importance of it and how precious it is so it will certainly be taken good care of."
Lewis has recently began working as a Rangers Community Coach which allowed him to watch the match in the stadium.
He added: "I was lucky enough that Willie Johnston, Derek Johnstone, Colin Stein, and Alex MacDonald were sitting in front of me.
"I thought it was written in the stars with them sitting in the row in front of me. I was gutted I never had a pen to get them to sign it.
"When the game didn't end up going our way, I just thought if it was ever going to happen for me, that was the time with the flag.
"So I decided it would be a good thing to pass it on again to somebody who would be deserving of it"
Callan's parents and grandfather are set to attend the NARSA convention (North America Rangers Supporters Association) next weekend.
In a twist of events Shona called 'fate', they are hoping to get the flag signed by the '72 goal scorers Willie Johnston and Colin Stein.
They also hope to get the picture which Lewis took at the game with the two former players signed as a keepsake for him.
Shona said: "Lewis has a box full of Rangers memorabilia that he's collected over the years and that flag was one of them.
"I think for him to gift that to somebody, it takes someone special, to part with something like that and give it to a complete stranger.
"Our holiday was great and it was topped off by Lewis and I want to reward him in some way by getting some of his stuff signed."
Lewis previously tried to track down the man who originally gave him the flag in Barcelona on social media but to no avail.
He concluded: "I put out a post on Facebook, maybe a few weeks before the game on some of the Rangers pages.
"They did get a few thousand likes but I've never managed to retrace the guy who gave it to me.
"I'm hoping this story will help."
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