Only an Excuse

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GUEST SPOT: Chick Young

GUEST SPOT: Chick Young

 

 

by Only an Excuse

 

HO HO HO, when is a draw not a draw? When it's a moral victory like the moral victory the glorious Glasgow Rangers secured at Ibrox on Sunday.

 

Rangers went into this one on the back of a totally sensational, absolutely magnificent run of two home victories against the best team in Scotland, Hibs, and the mighty, superb Partizan Belgrade.

 

What a superb performance this was from the Teddy Bears, who created and missed chance after chance. OK, it could have been different had referee, the superb Kenny Clark, been duped and awarded a penalty after Neil Lennon's pathetic dive, after being brushed slightly by Steven Smith. That might have made it 2-0 to THEM, but then they might not have got their goal had Barry Ferguson scored when clean through on the extremely lucky Artur Boruc.

 

Had Barry put this ball where it rightfully belonged, deep in the back of the Celtic net, they may well have fallen apart and Rangers would have swept onwards to glory, won MBEs, a holiday would have been declared, and we'd all have got a tax rebate ... but, alas, Celtic, got a draw and spoiled it.

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Much has been made of the state of the pitch, but I thought it was in great nick. To be honest, I quite like the mud.

 

There was so much of it, there was a rumour the half-time show was going to be a spot of female mud-wrestling but this was just wishful thinking that was turned into a rumour and spread about by mostly, err ... me.

 

Anyway, with time running out and Rangers huffing and puffing, Le Guen played his masterstroke... he took off, er, somebody and put on Filip Sebo.

 

Immediately the sound of 'Se-bo! Se-bo!' filled the stadium - unfortunately, it was coming from the Celtic fans.

 

But who's to say this was not the move that precipitated Brahim Hemdani's magnificent strike which he deliberately deflected off Gravesen and into the back of the net. Cue scenes of utterly glorious, totally, totally sensational, unrestrained and indescribable ... relief.

 

Just one last thing. I thought Gordon Strachan was out of order eating sweeties while being interviewed on TV.

 

That was just disgraceful behaviour. He should be banned from football and Celtic should have, say, 16 points deducted, because at no time as he was sticking the sweets into his face did he even once offer me one!

 

 

 

Baz best beware of Beau Geste

 

 

by Only an Excuse

 

We've been hearing rumours for weeks now that Paul Le Guen and Barry Ferguson don't get on. At first we'd heard it was over language - Le Guen insists on speaking proper English and Barry can't understand it.

 

But, at the weekend, the story broke that the alleged breakdown in the relationship is over the importance - or not - of the role of captain.

 

While Barry sees it as an honour to captain Rangers, Le Boss sees it as no more than a token title, a fancy name for coin-tosser. Another example of the Monsoor not quite grasping the intricacies of the Scottish game?

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We've heard a Le Guen half-time team talk is of the 'arm-around-the-player-wise-words-softly-spoken' variety, while Barry's is more from the traditional Scottish school of greetin-faced, in-yer-face inspirational oratory which Le Gaffeur doesn't like.

 

Now, there's no way Le Guen would sell his best player, it's not the French way. No, but waking up in some Foreign Legion outpost in a remote part of North Africa - according to films we've seen - is ... so, Barry, watch your back.

 

We heard Gers fans say they had nae luck on Sunday. Aye, because they used up a month's worth getting Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Uefa Cup - what more do they want?

 

 

 

 

The first part with Chick young is exellent. Strachen was eating love hearts when CY interviewed him after the game.