Queen of the South 2 v Rangers 0
Friday 12 December 2014
Twitter @ball_sup
Give me strength. I've just nursed my own club through a crisis. I head for a side trip to Scotland. And find myself at a game where another club plunges into another crisis.
Rumours rife on the way up to Dumfries that Rangers manager Ally McCoist has tendered his resignation. It's a car crash ain't it. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the ins & outs of it all.
In general, my sympathies generally stay with the Fans. But I am savvy enough to know that Fans chasing a dream & wanting money thrown at it, is part of the overreach problem. Not specifically. But generally. Oh & because Charles Green has been involved, a little extra bit of sympathy goes to the Rangers fans.
This is my second Scottish League match. And both of them have been at Palmerston Park, Queen of the South. I've never seen Rangers play before. But I was around for one of their earlier crises.
I bunked in to a meeting of the London Rangers Supporters Club the week they signed Mo Johnston. For those who don't recall, Mo was the first high profile player of Catholic heritage who Rangers had signed in living memory. We had to "disrupt" the head count & register a number of times. The Supporters Club were naturally nervous & keen to exclude interlopers. We were naturally inclined to interlope.
Essentially lots of people desperately trying to avoid openly sectarian statements. Bedlam.
Queen of the South thoroughly deserved that. They were the better side throughout & played some lovely stuff. I've got no background here. But Rangers are just coming up against sides with players every bit as good as theirs. Inevitable really. Put that with the obvious expectation of their large fanbase & boom, a crisis in the making.
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