From: scottj@spider.co.uk (Scott Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Rangers Match Report
Date: 14 Sep 92 07:43:43 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Played on Saturday September 12th

Partick Thistle F.C. 1  Rangers 4

Jamieson 10             McPherson 23
                        McCall 50
                        Gough 65
                        Hateley 75
Att. 18,640

After two weeks on holiday it was good to get back and join the Follow Follow
brigade at Firhill on a sunny afternoon. Thistle have upgraded the ground
since last year and are at least making an effort. It's fair to say that
Firhill is the second best ground in Glasgow with Thistle having a shout for
Glasgow's second team, although Clyde might dispute that until they move to
Cumbernauld. This game was worth the money just to see Hateley's goal.
However, Thistle took the lead in ten minutes after the linesman turned down
offside appeals as two Thistle players ran through. TV evidence later
concluded that one of them was at least three weeks offside. However,
Jamieson ran on to slot the ball past Goram. Rangers equalised through Hen
Broon when a cross hit off his perm on the back of his head and went into the
top corner but he's still useless. In the second half, a brilliant goal by
McCall put Rangers into the lead when he worked a one-two wih Huistra on the
edge of the box and rifled the ball into the top corner. Before Gough had
scored the third, SAlly had missed about a dozen chances so when the ball
came to Gough on the edge of the box, he chested it down, checked for
sprinklers then Buddy Holly'd the ball into the net with the keeper static.
We were stunned as well! He grabbed McCoist and made a gesture of that's how
you do it! SAlly then got the ball and ran upfield into the six yard box and
with four Rangers players waiting in the middle with the one Thistle player
covering McCoist.....he tried a shot. The game then generated into a piss
take and with fiteen minutes to go, Hateley replaced Huistra. He went to
defend a corner and when it came across he headed it clear and it went to
Thistle player Davie Irons. He went chasing after the ball and won it in a
tackle on the halfway line. He then controlled the ball and with the keeper
out of position,from over forty yards he hit his shot. The keeper got back
across but he dived and the ball bounced over him into the net. So with four
touches of the ball he had scored whereas McCoist would never have scored all
day. Why he doesn't get his game for Scotland is beyond me. It should have
been ten but complacency and poor finishing by SAlly kept it at four. Best
for Rangers was Stuart McCall, with Gough a close second. The result from
Parkheid kept us amused on the way home.

Rangers:
Goram, Robertson, McPherson, Gough, Brown, McCall, Durrant, Huistra (Hateley),
McCoist, Ferguson, Mikhailichenko; Not used: Nisbet

Premier League (off the top of my head without my Sunday Mail)
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                P  Pts
RANGERS         8  12
Hertz           8  12
Dundee Utd      8  11
Celtic          8  10
Hibs            8   9

Next game is on Wednesday in the European Cup against Lyngby of Denmark at
Ibrox then it's the cluggers in waiting of Scottish fitba', Hertz, next
Saturday at Ibrox.

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