Glaswegian Frank McLintock joined Rangers in the mid 1970's, as we looked for some experience in our exciting team of the time.

He was originally an attacking midfield player for Arsenal until manager Don Howe decided during an injury crisis that he might be usefully employed as a central defender and seldom has a hunch been proved so right.

As well as becoming a fine defender, he was an inspirational captain. He was part of Arsenals double winning team and he ended the season by being named Footballer of the Year in 1971.

He made 403 appearances for Arsenal where he is still regarded as one of their best ever defenders. He moved to QPR in the 1973/74 season to add a bit of experience to the QPR team.

Gordon Jago's team had just been promoted and were looking to just stay up back in the first division. They exceeded expectations though with the brilliance of players like Don Givens and Stan Bowles and McLintock found himself at the start of something pretty special.

His signing was a massive one for Rangers and despite being in his 30's when he played for Rangers he was still a top quality defender and inspired his team mates around him. His experience helped the QPR defence and built a good understanding with the rest of his back four.

McLintock helped Rangers to a good FA Cup Run as Rangers beat Chelsea in the third round before getting as far as the quarter finals. The fans and players began dreaming of Wembley again but Leicester knocked us out in a disappointing 2-0 defeat.

It had been a good first season though fro McLintock with the team finishing eight in the table and recording first ever league victories over Spurs, Arsenal, Burnley, Man Utd, Man City, Newcastle, Derby and Wolves. So a pretty successful first season back in the top flight.

McLintock suffered along with most of the rest of the squad the following season as expectations became great and Gordon Jago ended up leaving the club. Dave Sexton took over and although the team managed to only finish mid table the team had taken huge strides forward during the last few months of the season and by the start of the 1975/76 season frank McLintock was looking to win his second championship medal.

McLintock and Dave Webb formed a solid partnership at the back for rangers and helped us finish 2nd during one of the finest seasons in the clubs history. Something McLintock later admitted he had never expected when he agreed to join QPR a few years earlier.

It was a fantastic end to McLintock's career as he was back in Europe in the UEFA cup with QPR. He helped QPR get to the quarter finals but Rangers ended up going out of the competition to AEK Athens.

After that season McLintock left Rangers as the great team was quickly broken up and McLintock's playing career was over. He went into management where he tried his hand with Brentford but he was as successful as he had been during his playing career.

He ended up becoming a pundit on Sky where he still speaks fondly of his time at QPR.

Although known more as an Arsenal legend than a QPR one, his contribution to Rangers best ever team in 1975/76 was a massive one and he will go down in history as a member of the best ever QPR team.