Raith Rovers chairman Turnbull Hutton insists beating Rangers to lift the Ramsdens Cup is as big as anything the club have achieved in the past.
John Baird stunned Ally McCoist’s side with a dramatic extra-time winner as the Kirkcaldy club got their hands on more silverware 20 years after upsetting Celtic in the League Cup final.
And, although the Ramsdens Cup excludes teams from the top flight, Hutton admits the fact they humbled Rangers in the final makes it all the more special.
Hutton said: “We all know it’s the Ramsdens Cup but it was slightly different considering our opponents in the final were Rangers.”
“It was superb for the club and the town. We have only won two cups, it seems to happen every 20 years.
“But this is probably up there with anything we’ve achieved before, to get to a final of any description is great.
“My son is actually one of the lucky one because he is old enough to have been at the League Cup final in 1994 and was there on Sunday.
“Some people go through their whole lifetime without witnessing that. It was great, hopefully the profile of the club has been raised and we see the spin-offs from that.”
Raith took the celebrations back from Easter Road across the Forth on Sunday evening and partied into the early hours of the morning.
Hutton added: “All the players, staff and officials went up to our main shirt sponsors O’Connell’s for drinks in Kirkcaldy on Sunday.
“There was queuing to get in and it was shoulder to shoulder inside, I stayed until around 11 o’clock but it was a great night. They were still queuing when I left.”