From: mcsdc1gf@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Rangers/Scotland squad:- R they one?
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:10:56 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology


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
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!