Features

• Correct player size printing professionally heat pressed
• Paint transfer McEwans sponsor to front
• Umbro logo covered up with black felt taping
• Padding to sleeves
• Given to a club official as a gift and comes from their own personal collection - a signed letter verifying this will be provided

Notes - Extremely rare player shirt believed to have been prepared for during the 1996-97 season. Rangers' kit manufacturers during this time were German giants adidas and the side hadn't worn Umbro kits since the 1989-90 season. Scottish international Andy Goram was the side's #1 choice keeper this season with Dutch shot-stopper Theo Snelders his backup. For reasons unknown in Rangers' Champions League Group A match Snelders took the field in the first half wearing a yellow Umbro goalkeeper template without a club crest but with a black McEwans Lager sponsor. Walter Smith's men found themselves 2-0 behind at the break after a Dani brace and Snelders reappeared for the second half wearing the side's iconic adidas sunrise GK shirt. Two months later in another CL away game this time against French side Auxerre, Goram wore the same yellow Umbro template. This time it was without the McEwans sponsor to comply with French alcohol advertising regulations with the outfield players wearing the alternative Centre-parks sponsor. The Gers ended up finishing bottom of their group and exiting the competition but the Umbro template would reappear twice more domestically featuring in games against Kilmarnock in December and February before disappearing once more and this time for good. This shirt is believed to have been an emergency design prepared by the kit room staff should such an eventuality occur again. The side switched to Nike in 1997 and the American manufacturers offered a multitude of different templates meaning Umbro wouldn't be called upon again at least until the English manufacturers signed a kit deal with Rangers in 2005.