FT Linfield 0 - 7 Rangers (Miller 11, 28, 31, 53; Kranjcar 25; Kiernan 27; Garner 83)

[Frankie 8,562]

Here's the highlights of the game - some excellent goals...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37268778

[JFK-1 1,693]

Hopefully a sign that we play better in a match where the opposition are doing something other than packing their box. It was mentioned earlier that they're just amateurs but that's not accurate. Linfield are semi professional exactly like the imps of Gibraltar.

 

And does this mean Brenda will get the message and park the bus.

Edited September 3, 2016 by JFK-1

[colinstein 294]

Here's the highlights of the game - some excellent goals...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37268778

 

that wasn't really a football match

[MacK1950 2,376]

It was for a good cause and obviously a mis-match.

Could you imagine the uproar if we had come away with a draw or a defeat glad to see we took a professional and clinical approach.

[der Berliner 3,744]

I know that Craig, we should have declined and used the free weekend to try to find some cohesion and form ahead of next weekends biggie, not a kickabout against a pub team where all we can possibly gain out of it is injuries. Thankfully apart from a head wound for Garner we seem to have come through unscathed.

 

Sometimes we should be looking at the bigger picture IMO. If we were playing St Johnstone next weekend I wouldn't have minded at all about this, but we are not ready for the tims game and we have foregone a good opportunity to try to get ready for it in favour of a jolly.

 

Pub team, amateurs ... man, you are really at it. Each to his own, but you stretch it quite a bit.

[JFK-1 1,693]

Pub team, amateurs ... man, you are really at it. Each to his own, but you stretch it quite a bit.

 

And presumably that makes the team from Gibraltar who beat our next opponents "Pub team, amateurs" too so since we thrashed the "Pub team, amateurs" we played away and they lost when they played the equivalent away what do we have to worry about?

[der Berliner 3,744]

Match report on the Linfield website:

 

Long friendships were continued this afternoon at Windsor Park as Linfield welcomed Rangers over from Glasgow for Jamie Mulgrew’s testimonial. It was a fitting reward to a Linfield legend and Rangers supporter who has given so much loyal service to Linfield Football Club over the years since making his debut in August 2005.

 

Read more here -> http://www.linfieldfc.com/matchreport.aspx?id=1000

 

Jamie Mulgrew : Rangers' class was there for everyone to see:

http://www.linfieldfc.com/interview.aspx?id=2346

Edited September 3, 2016 by der Berliner

[der Berliner 3,744]

Back To Basics

 

MARK Warburton says Rangers dominant display over Linfield allowed them to get back to basics ahead of next weekend’s Old Firm.

 

Full interview with quite a few "explanations" here: http://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/back-to-basics/

[ian1964 10,723]

The full match is up on Rangers TV as live

[Tannochsidebear 2,406]

Pub team, amateurs ... man, you are really at it. Each to his own, but you stretch it quite a bit.

 

How would you describe them then? We used to send our under 19's over every year and still beat them. As low as the standard has fallen in Scotland, the standard in NI remains as low as you get for top tier football in any country. I don't get any locals disagreeing with me when I discuss it with them.