[TheWorthinGer]

Sectarianism existed as a societal problem and rangers became a vehicle,an expression for it.They evolved into that role due to the fact that Celtic started to dominate Scots fiba for a while and the Protestant community needed to see that there was a challenge to Celtic. Its pretty well documented.

You can have the more final appearances,big deal - hibs have the trophy from that era and are proudly on the scottish cup along with the other major scottish clubs from that time.

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Incidentally lugtons book about hibernians history pre-war is full of loads of interesting stuff from this period in scottish fitba history. Whilst WH murrays book of "the old firm" is also a fascinating read.

It's obvious that you now accept that the sectarianism visible in Scottish society is in no way sourced from Rangers. Well done - sanity has favoured you with facts.

The footballing point being  that your statement that regarding the stature of Rangers based of the history of the Scottish cup misses the point that they were obviously still as successful as Hibs in that they may not have won the competition but they had come close on two occasions: one of our finals was lost at the third replay and the other was a walkover at the second replay - both to one of the country's most successful sides of the era.

And please accept my congratulations at your ability to read a couple of books.  No, really, well done.