Scotland's Big Guns Qualify For the Champions League
The UEFA Cup is for Scotland's wee teams.
There. It's said as Hearts slapped down a "resurgent" Sheep side who were on top of the world for one game after thumping Hibs 4-0. Now that the silly season is over, we have Rangers doing what everybody knew and, what Davie Murray's bank manager feared, failing to qualify for Europe's tournament which matters.
The UEFA Cup has plummeted in prestige over the last three season since the high of Seville in 2003, when you consider that Middlesborough are one of the "big" teams in the competition. Well, being Scotland's twin representative with Scottish Division Two Champions Gretna qualifying for Europe for the first time every will be in good company when they enter the UEFA Cup next season.
So, apart from being the laughing stock of a nation, where do Rangers go from here? How do they follow up on something as exceptional as their "Buy A Brick" scheme to compensate for the 20m drop in revenue?
Well, obviously those fine representatives of the Rangers Supporters Trust succeed where the Gers board fail by trying to raise funds for their new manager by selling shares and giving the French man, who is of questionable quality relative to Big Eck, the targetted 5m they hope to raise.
What this makes you ask just who punted whom at the Crisis Ibrox club? It seems that there is less trust in the Frenchman than there was in McLeash. Is this the new low level which poor suffering Bears must deal with? Is it not enough that teams such as Hearts no longer maintain the status quo and now not only seek to replace their masters but actually do?
It certainly asks the question about the calibre of player that Le Guen will recruit. Rangers must wish they had the resource to be able to afford a player of the quality of Chris Sutton. Even after leaving Celtic this guy has so much to offer and would be the type of winner who would haul Rangers off thr floor but he, like Hearts, are out of Rangers's League.
There. It's said as Hearts slapped down a "resurgent" Sheep side who were on top of the world for one game after thumping Hibs 4-0. Now that the silly season is over, we have Rangers doing what everybody knew and, what Davie Murray's bank manager feared, failing to qualify for Europe's tournament which matters.
The UEFA Cup has plummeted in prestige over the last three season since the high of Seville in 2003, when you consider that Middlesborough are one of the "big" teams in the competition. Well, being Scotland's twin representative with Scottish Division Two Champions Gretna qualifying for Europe for the first time every will be in good company when they enter the UEFA Cup next season.
So, apart from being the laughing stock of a nation, where do Rangers go from here? How do they follow up on something as exceptional as their "Buy A Brick" scheme to compensate for the 20m drop in revenue?
Well, obviously those fine representatives of the Rangers Supporters Trust succeed where the Gers board fail by trying to raise funds for their new manager by selling shares and giving the French man, who is of questionable quality relative to Big Eck, the targetted 5m they hope to raise.
What this makes you ask just who punted whom at the Crisis Ibrox club? It seems that there is less trust in the Frenchman than there was in McLeash. Is this the new low level which poor suffering Bears must deal with? Is it not enough that teams such as Hearts no longer maintain the status quo and now not only seek to replace their masters but actually do?
It certainly asks the question about the calibre of player that Le Guen will recruit. Rangers must wish they had the resource to be able to afford a player of the quality of Chris Sutton. Even after leaving Celtic this guy has so much to offer and would be the type of winner who would haul Rangers off thr floor but he, like Hearts, are out of Rangers's League.
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