ON THIS DAY

Shock, horror north of the border. Financial problems had seen Rangers enter administration during the 2011/12 season and later they went into liquidation. Their assets were sold to a new company but the 'newco' had no automatic right to keep Rangers in the Scottish Premier League - the Scottish League clubs would have to vote on it. On 13th July 2012 they did just that and their decision was to demote Rangers to the lowest tier in the competition, Division 3, from where they worked their way back up to the top. 14 th July

With no qualification games being played the first ever World Cup matches were played in the finals in Uruguay on this day in 1930 - France v Mexico and Belgium v USA. Lucien Laurent of France scored the first ever World Cup goal.