Rangers Going Backwards In The Hope Of Moving Forward

AS A boy, I was brought-up on tales of the great Rangers Iron Curtain side of the late Struth era. Whilst not conceding goals was seen as this squad's USP, they had a simple attacking plan.

 

Big Geordie Young or Tiger Shaw would lump the ball up the park, to Willie Waddell or whoever was on the left wing, latterly Johnny Hubbard. They would hit the bye-line and cross for Willie Thornton to head home.

 

Watching the lowlights of the Tribute Act's scrambled 1-1 draw with the mighty Albion Rovers on Sunday, I was struck by their reliance on something like the Struth-inspried approach. Play it up the wing, cross and hope for the best.

 

The Rangers equaliser was one of those goals which you only ever see awarded to the home side at Ibrox or Parkhead, I thought the goalie was fouled, still, it saved us from the inevitable late Rangers' penalty. Mind you, since they could so-seldom get player and ball into the Rovers' penalty box at the same time, the chances of a late Rangers' penalty were always remote.

 

They should get past Rovers in the replay, in which case, it will need a Dundee United collapse of massive proportions, plus the intervention of a Mason in the Black, to get this piss-poor "Rangers" outfit into the final.

 

 

 

ANENT the ICT v Dundee United game. Is Ross Tokeley coaching at his old club? I ask, because the two "tackles" which earned their Inverness perpetrators their justly-flourished red cards had Tokeley's stamp all over them. Yogi Hughes had his moments, but, I cannot think of him ever pulling off a challenge so crude.

 

 

 

JIM Murphy, the Honourable member for that rich part of the Glasgow suburbs, has got himself into hot water, by describing the England team as; "Shite".

 

I didn't think Mr Murphy, who, according to my daughter, a contemporary at Strathclyde University: "Believes in one thing, the superiority of Jim Murphy", had that much intelligence.

 

Mind you, criticising England, will do him no good with his new best friends at the Daily Mail.

 

I saw a neat wee comment from one of the Cybernats in the Scotsman's web chat about Murphy's opinion. This guy wonders how far waving the Union Flag so strongly for Better Together will get Murphy around his fellow members of the Celtic Family.