The final instalment as we look at the greatest-ever players to wear Light Blue...

5 DAVE MEIKLEJOHN

The Rangers years: 1919-1936

Appearances: 563.

Career highlight: Scoring a penalty against Celtic that helped Rangers end their 25 year wait for Scottish Cup glory.

Show us your medals: Twelve League titles and five Scottish Cups.

So what makes you a legend? Davie Meiklejohn joined Rangers from Maryhill Juniors in 1919 and was an ever present in the team for the next 18 years.

An astute half-back, the Govan man was also captain of Bill Struth's all-conquering side and led by example both on and off the pitch.

Meek helped Rangers lift the Scottish title on a staggering 12 occasions in his time at Ibrox.

The Scottish Cup eluded him until 1928 when he scored a penalty in a famous 4-0 win over Celtic. It was the first time since 1903 that Rangers had won the Scottish Cup. He would win it on a further four occasions.

Capped 16 times for Scotland, he retired in 1936 and became a newspaper columnist. He returned to football to manage Partick Thistle and died aged just 58 after a game against Airdrie in 1959.

4 SANDY JARDINE

The Rangers years: 1964-1982.

Appearances: 674.

Career highlight: Scoring against Bayern Munich in the European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final.

Show us your medals: One European Cup Winners' Cup, three League titles, five Scottish Cups and five League Cups.

So what makes you a legend? Sandy Jardine had been at Ibrox for five years – and had played in a European final – before manager Willie Waddell decided he was best utilised in the ful-back berth in which he would become famous.

Jardine was a supreme athlete. He had the speed and skill to attack teams on the overlap. He would be an ever-present in the first team for the next decade.

His goal against the great Bayern Munich team of the 1970s helped book the Glasgow club's place in the final of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1972.

That would be one of 14 trophies he would help Rangers lift in his 18 years at Ibrox. He was released in 1982 and moved on to play – and co-manage alongside his old team mate Alex MacDonald – for Hearts.

He was named Scottish Football Writers' Player of the Year for the second time at the age of 37 in 1986.

3 JOHN GREIG

The Rangers years: 1961 to 1978.

Appearances: 755.

Career highlight: Captaining Rangers to their only European trophy in 1972.

Show us your medals: One European Cup-Winners' Cup, five League titles, six Scottish Cups, four League Cups.

So what makes you a legend? When Rangers fans decided upon who the "Greatest Ever Ranger" was in 2001 there was really only one contender.

John Greig is not, by his own admission, the most gifted player ever to don a Light Blue jersey.But few, if any, before or since have possessed his sheer will to win or his dedication to the Rangers cause.

He won 16 trophies in his remarkable 17 year career at the Ibrox club. With 755 appearances he has played, by some distance, the most first-team games for the Govan giants.

He was a great ambassador for Rangers for many years, first as club captain then as manager and later on as a director. Undoubtedly, his most memorable moment came when he skippered Rangers to the European Cup-Winners' Cup in Barcelona in 1972.

He succeeded Jock Wallace as manager in 1978. He won the League Cup twice and the Scottish Cup twice, but the League eluded him and he resigned in 1983.

Greig returned to the club in 1990 and worked in a variety of roles before resigning as a director after Craig Whyte took over in 2011.

2 BRIAN LAUDRUP

The Rangers years: 1994-1998.

Appearances: 151.

Career highlight: Heading the goal that clinched Nine-In-A-Row.

Show us your medals: Three League titles, one Scottish Cup, one League Cup.

So what makes you a legend? Brian Laudrup only spent four seasons at Rangers but the Dane is the finest player to have worn the jersey in the modern era.

Signed by Walter Smith for £2.3million in 1994 from Fiorentina, Laudrup went into a team that had won the title six years running.

But he enhanced the side tremendously. His close control, his blinding pace, his ability to unlock defences with an inch-perfect pass and his eye for a goal combined to destroy opposition teams.

Laudrup ensured Rangers won the Scottish title comfortably in his first two seasons and was then instrumental in them completing Nine-In-A-Row in the 1996/97 campaign.

He was the first foreigner to be named Scottish Football Writers' Player of the Year at the end of his debut season in 1995 and won again in 1997.

He moved on to Chelsea after Gers had finished the 1997/98 season – the last in Smith's first spell in charge – trophyless. He had spells at Copenhagen and Ajax before retiring due to injury.

1 JIM BAXTER

The Rangers years: 1960-1965 and 1969-1970.

Appearances: 254.

Career highlight: Playing keepy- uppy as Scotland beat world champions England 3-2 at Wembley in 1967.

Show us your medals: Three League titles, three Scottish Cups, four League Cups.

So what makes you a legend? For Rangers fans who were blessed enough to see Jim Baxter play in the flesh there is no debate about who is the Ibrox club's greatest player. For them, Slim Jim is Simply the Best.

And it is not just the supporters who think so. No less a judge than Sir Alex Ferguson is of the same opinion. "Jim Baxter was Rangers' greatest ever player," he once said. "He is arguably the best player ever to play in Scottish football."

Baxter joined Rangers from Raith Rovers for a £17,500 fee in 1960. He did not take long to justify the record transfer fee and helped his club win the Scottish title in his debut season. It was the first of 10 trophies he lifted in his first five-year stint with the Govan club.

It was the swagger that the Fifer played with as much as his undeniable talent that so endeared him to Light Blues followers.

Baxter was notorious off the pitch as well as on it. But the stories of his exploits away from the game simply succeeded in adding to his legend.

He left Rangers in 1965 and had spells at Sunderland and Nottingham Forest. He returned to Rangers in 1969, but, by then, his demons were taking their toll. He retired the next year aged just 31.

His time at Rangers was brief but utterly brilliant.

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