From: ajc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Caul)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Rangers/Scotland squad:- R they one?
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:36:51 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: ajc@client77.comlab

In article <1993Jan8.141056.2697@dct.ac.uk> mcsdc1gf@dct.ac.uk writes:
>
>Hi there , sports fans!
>
>This is just a small posting to completly critisise Glasgow Rangers.
>The first thing i would like to say is why do Rangers players automatically
>get into the Scotland squad? Dont anybody dare say that it is because they
>are playing well! Pat Nevin (remember him , small winger who got man of the 
>match in America after being taken off injured after 60 mins and plays for
>Tranmere Rovers where he has been playing a blinder recently) never gets the
>chance that he deserves. Andy Roxburgh only looks at Rangers and ex-Rangers
>players. Saying that , Robert Fleck (ex-ger) has been playing really well
>lately but is not even considered for a place. Kevin Gallacher is also having

Fleck having a good season?  He is due to be dropped by Chelsea in the near 
future, since anyone (Newton or Spencer) replacing him has looked better.  I 
hope it is just lack of confidence, but I can't see any reason for a national
callup at the moment.

>a good season so far but again will not get a place. My best example was the
>fiasco against Italy at Ibrox. 3 players from Rangers had to pull out of the
>match through injury and that still left 4 gers starting the match.
>
>  Eion Jess , although i am not a great fan of him , showed when he came on
>against Italy , he has the talent and something which Ally McCoist is lacking
>determination to turn a match on its head. He was unlucky not to get a penalty
>but thats football. And i am sick of people , especially Scottish ones ,
>slagging off Gordon Durie and Brian McClair. Give Durie some credit , he 
>played on with double vision against Italy and he was unlucky not to score.
>Brian McClair got booed of the park in that very same match. What most of
>the Scots critisizers (i , myself , am Scottish) seem to forget is that
>he is not an out and out striker like Alan Shearer. He is a playmaker who
>normally plays just behind the strike force making moves and setting up
>chances. So , so-called Scotland fans , get a grip and start getting behind
>these players. They need all the support they can get. If anybody should get
>booed , it is Ally McCoist. But he wont because he plays for Rangers and
>no-body can see past them.
>
> Now , refering to the so-called Battle of Britain. Rangers have been named in
>someplaces as the best British team because they beat Leeds. We all know that
>Leeds are having a bad season just know , so they were not as good as they 
>could have been. Since Dundee F.C are the only team to beat Rangers this season
>and thinking the way most papers and commentators think , Dundee should be
>known as the best British team as they beat Rangers 4-3 at Dens.
>
> What i can remember from that match , Rangers were played off the park.
>
>So , could everybody please note that the Scotland football team does not
>actually exist and it is just the Rangers squad in different strips.
>
>
>  Come on Andy , get a life and pick other players in other clubs.
>
>  Just in case anyone is wondering ( and there will be ) i support
>  STENHOUSEMUIR so i am allowed to critisize football teams in the Premier.
>
>  And my ideal Scotland squad (injuries not considered)
>  would be:
>
>                            BRIAN GUNN
>
>    
>                            JIM DUFFY
>
>    JOHN CLARK     ROY AITKEN        ALAN MCLAREN      DEREK WHYTE
>
>  
>          GORDON DURIE    SCOTT GEMMILL   TOM BOYD
>
>                  
>                  EION JESS       ROBERT FLECK
>
> 
>   SUBS:  PAT NEVIN
>          KEVIN GALLACHER
>          DAVID SPEEDIE
>          GARY SMITH
>          MICHAEL WATT
>    
>
>    This team as an equal amount of experience and rawness to be a world
>  beating team. If Roxburgh does not get his tongue out of Walter Smith's
>  arse , we , the Scots , will be going to America to support the Irish.
>
>  Mr Charlton , i salute you!
>
>   
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