While players from all clubs joined the Armed Forces, Rangers players were found jobs in the nearby Shipyards where they were given time off for training sessions before playing matches against clubs that had been decimated by call-ups. In the Southern League.
A picture captures a thousand words, the picture above captures thousands of words from thousands of fans, all of whom have their own stories to tell of the season and the cup final victory.
Eventually the comic figure that is Charles Green appeared on the scene, a gobby ‘businessman’ from Yorkshire with no obvious wealth who sang like a canary about how he would put the world to right and knock Barcelona and Real Madrid off their perch as the biggest clubs in the…