From: clgp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Rangers/Scotland squad:- R they one?
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:48:07 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

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
> 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!
> 
Thats why A. Goram is manager of Scotland and you talk utter rubbish. Its 
always the same, when Rangers play well there is always some idiots come out
of the woodwork and try to bring them down.
As I remember correctly Rangers beat Dundee United 3-2 on Tuesday night.

I was just wondering where you got all this marvelous Knowlege about Scottish
football anyway, was it in the Daily Record or Radio Clyde on a Saturday
afternoon or do you go and watch the matches?   

Ian Davis
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow.