Background
Jim Forrest was born in Glasgow, and signed for Rangers as a schoolboy, and was sent for a short period to Drumchapel Amateurs for development.
Jim Forrest was born in Glasgow, and signed for Rangers as a schoolboy, and was sent for a short period to Drumchapel Amateurs for development.
In coming in to the first-team, he displaced Jimmy Millar as the successful early 1960s Rangers side was breaking up. He was known as a prolific goalscorer – in total scoring 145 goals in his 163 games for Rangers, his 50th goal for the club coming in his 45th appearance. He scored 57 goals in the 1964-1965 season, just two short of Jimmy McGrory of Celtic who holds the record of most goals scored in a season in British football.
He holds the record for number of goals scored for Rangers in a League Cup match, scoring five in a 7–1 victory over Hamilton Academical F.C. on 30 October 1965.
His Rangers career came to an end shortly after the infamous Scottish Cup defeat to Berwick Rangers in January 1967. He and George McLean were deemed entirely to blame, and both were dropped and transferred within weeks.
Amazingly, the two were team-mates at Drumchapel, Rangers, Aberdeen and Hong Kong Rangers.