Rangers were left gasping for air as they entered a Greek cauldron 27 years ago, with a red-hot AEK Athens side dishing out a lesson both in football and the dark arts.
The sneaky hosts had disabled the air-con in the away dressing room, leaving Smith’s Ibrox side wilting before they had even stepped out onto the pitch at the stuffy Nikos Goumas Stadium.
Gers had signed Brian Laudrup that summer but even the dazzling Dane could not rescue Gers’ Champions League hopes as they crashed 2-0 in the Greek capital before being burned up again at home.
A year later, Rangers were sweating it out again as they faced Anorthosis Famagusta - with a single Gordon Durie goal over two legs edging them past the Cypriot minnows to reclaim the club's place at.
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