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It is nearly 30 years since Rangers’ 7-2 hammering of Alania Vladikavkaz in the Champions League qualifiers but the memory of such humiliation remains vivid in the memory of the Russian side’s goalkeeper that night. It’s fair to say Zaur Khapov, casting his mind back to August 1996, does not have too many fond memories about the night the Russians welcomed a rampant Rangers side to Alania. It took just 33 seconds for the visitors from Glasgow to open the floodgates. By the time the clock struck 18 minutes, the legendary Ally McCoist had a hat-trick. The first Gers player to hit a European treb…

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