Former Rangers striker Jim Forrest, the club’s most prolific attacker in postwar history, has died at the age of 79.
Forrest, who represented Scotland five times, scored 145 goals in 163 appearances for his hometown club.
He went to Preston in 1967, but later returned to Scotland with Aberdeen, where he helped them win the Scottish Cup in 1970.
As a teenager, Forrest supplanted the famous Jimmy Millar in the Rangers first team after joining as a schoolboy.
The arrival of the lad from Townhead, together with Willie Henderson, John Greig, and Jim Baxter, was a pivotal moment in Rangers’ new period in the early 1960s.
Forrest scored 39 goals in his first full season at Ibrox, including four in the 1963 League Cup victory over Greenock Morton on his way to a memorable Treble.
He scored 57 goals in the 1964-65 season, including two against Celtic in another League Cup final.
Forrest scored five goals in a league game against Hamilton Academical in 1965, and the following year he surpassed the mark for most goals scored by a Rangers player in a League Cup match, with five in an 8-0 victory against Stirling Albion.
After playing in South Africa and Hong Kong, Forrest finished his career with the San Antonio Thunder in the United States.
