It was 14 years ago to the week that Kevin Thomson experienced a brush with history, a near miss in Manchester the likes of which he thought impossible for any Scottish side to repeat.
But, as the clock ticks down towards kick-off in Seville on Wednesday night, the former Rangers linchpin is now convinced that the class of 2022 is about to go one better.
In fact, Thomson believes Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his players are about to achieve something so spectacular and of such enormous magnitude that they’ll be remembered forever as the greatest Scottish team of all time.
