Well Done Rangers - Yawn

I AM certain this morning, the readers of this blog will join me in congratulating Rangers on winning what was - dependant on your point of view - either their 56th Scottish League title, or their second.

The speed with which they overwhelmed their opponents in the third tier of Scottish football was very impressive, bringing to mind such triumphs as the Nazi's progress through Poland and the Low Countries in 1939 and 1940. Let's just hope Rangers enjoy better fortune once the forces ranged against them get organised, than poor old Adolf's lot enjoyed!!!

Any way - they won their league, it's over, despite the reaction from the Scottish football public being one of being overwhelmingly under-whelmed. By the way, might I suggest that the way they won, with the help of two penalties at Ibrox, goes some way to negating the view of the wilder elements amongst the wider Celtic family, that Rangers are deid.

Look at last night's two penalties and the view has to be: Plus ca Change etc.

I FORGOT to mention in yesterday's blog post, my continued amazement at the positive spin our colleagues in the English media continue to put on poor performances from "English" clubs in Europe; said clubs being only English in as much as they play in the English League.

At half-time in the Bayern v Arsenal match, we were being assured that for the Gunners, the job was "half done". Pardon me, for the job to be fully done - Arsenal would have had to win by at least 3-2. When we were assured the job was half done, they were in the same position as they had been at kick-off, 45 mintues previously - trailing by two goals.

Therefore, in their efforts to win 3-2, far from being half-way there, they were still barely off the start line. This vision also over-looked the fact that, in boxing parlance: Bayern were "ahead on points". Still, let's not let reality get in the way of the English vision of their Premiership and the top clubs in it, as the best teams in the world, playing in the best league in the world.

Aye Right..

THE Ayr branch of Coffin Dodgers Are Us was winding down after our Wednesday morning exertions on the hardwood of Ayr's ten-pin bowling alley. I congratulated Robin, our groups tame Somerset Parker on Ayr United's five-nil demolition of Stranraer on Saturday and he replied: "Aye, we're a different team when big Kevin Kyle isn't playing - we have to keep the ball on the ground and pass it, rather than lumping it up to him."

That's a bit unfair on big KK, a player I have always felt had more about him that his admittedly awesome aerial power.

But, Robin, and a couple of others were also full of praise for the much-maligned Kris Boyd, who continues to score goals for fun at Kilmarnock.

Sure, Boydie had done some daft things, he's far from being a Denis Law, but, he's easily our top home-bred goal-scorer of the past couple of decades and maybe, now he is past the 30 mark and winding down, prior to getting out of the seniors to enjoy a spell of goal-gathering for Auchinleck Talbot (maybe in three or four years' time), we should cherish him.

OK, KB isn't a great player, but, by any standard, he is a great goal-scorer and, if Ayr United supporters are prepared to pay tribute to a Kilmarnock player - he must be doing something rright.