Ultimately and with a sense of unspeakable cruelty, history asked for more than Rangers were able to give.
Having travelled so far and been backed by such numbers, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his players found the door to sporting immortality slammed in their faces without an ounce of compassion.
A penalty miss by the man who was brought to the club to be the difference maker at the end of a penalty shoot-out will be the defining moment of Aaron Ramsey ’s short, unsatisfactory stay at Ibrox.
