Alan Pattullo preview Rangers v Spurs

Rangers prepare to host Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League while welcoming back former Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou...

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00:00This is Alan Patullo at Ibrox Stadium for the Scotsman newspaper, just been covering

00:08the pre-match press conference with Andrew Post De Coghlu on Spurs managers return to

00:16Scotland and return to Ibrox for tomorrow night's Europa League clash with Rangers.

00:22Intriguing night ahead.

00:24He was entertaining, he was fairly friendly, fairly happy to be back I think.

00:33He was relishing the reception he was going to get from Rangers fans, but he did say also

00:40that he does like a bit of love too, he's not completely without feelings.

00:45So yeah, it's going to be a hot night for him and his team.

00:52A lot of history surrounding this fixture, or at least a lot of history surrounding

00:57English v Scottish fixtures, battles of Britain we of course know them as, although Rangers

01:03and Spurs have not met competitively for 62 years, 62 years today in fact, since a Jimmy

01:11Reeves inspired Spurs won here at Ibrox in front of 80,000 people in the European Cup

01:17Winners' Cup.

01:19Interesting to see what happens tomorrow, Philippe Clement was in earlier as well, press

01:23conference, rowing back slightly on comments he made after the Ross County game when he

01:29said that Rangers are operating on a different financial plane to Spurs and also controversially

01:39Celtic.

01:40Some interpreted it as him getting his excuses in early, although today he was a bit more

01:48bullish and said that any team can beat another team on their night and obviously he hopes

01:54that will be the case tomorrow night for Rangers who come into this game in a bit of better

01:59form and have a particularly arduous few days ahead with the Spurs and then Celtic at hand

02:09in the League Cup Final.

02:11Keep logged in to Scotsman.com, I'm going to write a match preview, I'll be online later

02:18and that report will be online tomorrow night as well, including some video content.