It takes something special for Hotline wind-up merchant Gordon Ashley to dish out praise to Rangers.
But having blown away Borussia Dortmund, even Gers’ Ayr assailant couldn’t shy away from the magnitude of the result at Ibrox which sees Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s team march on as Scotland’s sole remaining representative on the continent after Celtic were left frostbite in the Artic Circle.
There were plenty Rangers fans ringing in to ask what Mr Ashley was saying now having written off the Ibrox side’s chances last week.