BAZ GETS OUT A TIGHT SPOT

Fergie's heroes march on to quarters after penalty kick glory

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AS a sales pitch, it couldn't have gone much better.

If Andrew Cavenagh is looking for somewhere that offers both passion and a potential to profit, he certainly found it from his perch in the Ibrox directors box last night.

The American tycoon is going through the final due diligence stage of the take-over bid he is plotting alongside the San Francisco 49ers.

Last night's visit to Glasgow was a chance for him to kick the tyres and look under the bonnet.

If he needed any convincing about whether this was the right place to plough in his millions, it will have been blown away by a night of tense drama as Barry Ferguson got the better of Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce.

Gers slumped to a record-breaking fourth home loss in a row as last week's 3-1 away win was wiped out by Sebastian Szymanski's double. But by the end nobody was caring.

Ferguson's side held their nerve through 30 minutes of nail-biting extra-time to triumph in the shoot-out.

Jack Butland has had plenty of fingers pointed at him during a year of ups and downs but it was his two crucial saves that heaped the pressure back on Mert Hakan Yandas as the Turkish sub stepped up with the task of keeping Fener in the tie.

When he blazed over it sparked scenes not seen round Govan since Gio van Bronckhorst was leading Rangers on their Andalusian adventure to Seville.

Now it's Fergie charged with taking this team back to Spain. They face Atletico Bilboa next month in the quarter-finals.