Whip off the kilts and fetch the berets, Scotland have found their second home. First there was last month’s famous victory for the national football side in the capital’s Parc des Princes. In the same city on Sunday, this time at the Stade de France, the rugby team face Argentina as the Six Nations side best placed to reach the World Cup semi-finals.

In Lyon last night Rangers may have topped the lot with a 3-0 victory over the team who have held a monopoly on the Ligue 1 championship for the past six seasons.

In the newly baptised ‘Stade de GER Land’, the Daily Record called the victory “so spectacular, so utterly extraordinary that it may even have eclipsed the Scottish national side’s historic win in Paris”.

The Herald agreed, describing Walter Smith’s side’s efforts as a “dazzling encore,” while The Scotsman believed it to be the club’s ”finest away win in European competition since they defeated PSV Eindhoven 3-2 in Holland to reach the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1978-79″.

Equally it could be seen as their finest moment since Smith led an unbeaten Rangers side to the verge of the maiden Champions League final in 1993.

That year, having memorably defeated Leeds in the second round ‘Battle of Britain’ tie, disgraced champions Marseille pipped them by a single point in the final group stage.

Fifteen competitions later, and still having to face Barcelona home and away, can Rangers maintain their advantage and reach the knockout stages? Or can they go even further.

There’s a poll running to predict their likely path on the Reuters football site. We reckon the 13% who currently see them going all the way might be logging on with sore heads somewhere in the east of France.

Padraic Halpin

PHOTO: Rangers fans celebrate after Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Olympique Lyon, at the Gerland stadium. REUTERS/Robert Pratta