Walter Smith spent almost two decades at Tannadice as both player and coach and even he couldn’t hide the way he felt over their actions during that chaotic summer of 2012.Smith backed a boycott arranged by the light blue legions for a Scottish Cup tie on Tayside – the first meeting between the clubs following the Ibrox side’s demotion to Scottish football’s bottom tier.He said: “Rangers are right to boycott — and that comes from a man who was 20 years at Tannadice.
I don’t think anybody at Rangers will ever forget what happened during that period.”Against a backdrop of bitterness, the February 2013 fifth-round clash failed to live up to the hype as Jackie McNamara’s United dugout debut ended in a 3-0 stroll and Gers having both Kal.
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