Filed under: Rants, Scotland, football, humour, jokes, politics, sports, stories | Tags: Eufa Cup, fixture congestion, glasgow rangers, Hibees, Hibs, Rangers, rangers fixture list, Rearrangers, Scottish Football Association, SFA, Thomson, Whittaker
I have supported Rangers’ dogged and boring progress through Europe but I am not, repeat not, a closet Hun. And they couldn’t have achieved it without ripping the guts out of The Hibees first 11.
This is funny. Thanks Mike.
One thing I am 100% behind them on is condemnation of the stance that the SFA have done nothing to further the cause of the Scottish game.
Exactly.
SFA.
Filed under: Scotland, football, life, sports, stories | Tags: Eufa Cup, eufa cup final, Glasgow, glasgow football, glasgow rangers, Rangers, Scottish Football, smith, the smith effect, walter, walter smith
Is Walter Smith the greatest football manager Scottish football has ever enjoyed?
I think so.
I was in Glasgow tonight to witness, in a pub, the effect this remarkable man has had on a patently average football team. Not only has he achieved greatness for Rangers Football Club but he has done so with six Scottish players on the pitch. Sadly, two of them Hibbies.
Clearly Rangers were not actually better than Fiorentina (or Werder Bemen, or Sporting Lisbon) but they beat them all- this is not typically Scottish behaviour.
But a Scottish team, is in a European Final.
This is genuinely something to celebrate.
C’mon the huns!
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My mate Mike is a rubbish golfer. He can’t hit a driver to save himself but he’s solid with a 7 iron. Plop, plop , plop goes each shot, down the middle, sinks the putt and it’s a par.
It’s real safety officer stuff but it grinds out results.
So, to Rangers.
Their European campaign, although succesful is like playing golf with a 7 iron. Nothing ventured, nothing ventured.
It makes you weep how dull and unimaginative it is. It’s horrific. But hey, the ends might just justify the means.
Whatever.
Filed under: Scotland, football, humour, jokes, life, sports, stories | Tags: Cardiff, Cardiff City, Champions League, diddy league, Dumfries, Eufa Cup, European football, FA Cup, Hibees, Queen of the south, Rangers, Scottish Cup, Scottish Football, the cabbage
The Cabbage could get into Europe.
Hearts could win the Diddy League. (Although, if memory serves me correctly Mr Romanov predicted that they should be, about now, in the Semi Finals of the Champion’s League defending last year’s title)
Carlisle United look like getting promoted two years’ running.
Queen of the South, yes, Queen of the South are in tomorrow’s Scottish Cup Final. If they win they’ll be dancing in the streets of Queen of the South (in fact by all accounts they already are.
Cardiff City are in the English FA Cup Final and they’re not even English.
Rangers are in the EUFA Cup Semi Final.
I blame it on global warming.
Filed under: Hibees, Scotland, football, life, sports | Tags: boring, Eufa Cup, gers, huns, Rangers, RFangers v Sporting Lisbon, Sporting Lisbon, walter smith
Unquestionably Walter Smith has fashioned a team more boring than a Dremel. But it works and hey, it’s good for Scotland’s Euro co-efficient. They played well in Portugal but something says it could be a touch more inspiring.
Barry Ferguson’s booking for kicking the ball away was, well, daft.
But, of course, the major contribution was from a Hibby, Steven Whittaker’s goal was nearly as good as Theo Walcott’s set up on Tuesday night.
Nevertheless, I cheered them on with gusto and I hope they can outdo Celtic’s Sevillian failure.
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Aberdeen 1 – 1 Dnipro
Aberdeen qualify on away goals for group stages (surely not; we always go OUT on away goals.)
This video is the best I could dredge up. not good…
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Celtic 2 – 1 AC Milan
Magnificent performance to beat the Champions of Europe. The match was only marred by the idiot who came on at the end to celebrate, but what about the goalie’s reaction?
Two words…Cheating scumbag.
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Lyon 0 – 3 Rangers
I think it is particularly enjoyable to watch Lyon’s humiliation in French. Sacre Bleu, Quel Horror, Horrible, Merde. So here you are.
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Saving the best for last; sure, Rangers rode their luck, but to beat one of Europe’s leading teams 3 – 0 away from home is quite extraordinary and from front to back the Rangers team can hold their heads high.
Masterful.
On the back of the Scotland victory v France we are a nation again.
Wait until the Cabbage play in the Champions League next year. The Champions of Europe may reside in Scotland.
