... Day defeat at Selhurst Park proved to be Rideout’s last game. With mutterings behind the scenes about the way the deal was done, he was shipped to Rangers for twice his original fee. Warnock spent ...
... and Uruguay. Everton are not alone in this – Argentina’s top flight has an Arsenal, Uruguay’s a Liverpool and Chile’s a Rangers, though only Arsenal (or “el Arse”) took ...
... in both boxing and football in the future.
Several footballers later tried their hand at gridiron, usually as field goal kickers. The most high-profile example in England was former Queens Park Ranger ...
... Rangers last landed one in 2011. But with Celtic’s fourth consecutive major trophy win in November, the theme of Scott Burns’ book is in danger of becoming a historical curio.
These eight ...
... ; Smith said.
Artificial pitches were seen as a solution to the flaws of grass in the early 1980s, but presented their own problems. Queens Park Rangers were promoted to the First Division in 1983 wi ...
... numbers. The idea was that four Scottish clubs would join at the next round to play the group winners in the quarter-finals. Great in theory, but all four Scottish clubs lost – including Rangers ...
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4 January ~ By drawing at Celtic then jetting out to Florida for friendlies against top Brazilian clubs, Rangers headed into the Premiership’s winter shutdown looking like a major, stable club. ...
... als since Queens Park Rangers in 1914, a year when boys wore detachable collars, a three-bedroomed house cost under £1,000 and Everton were a strong first-tier team. The fact that my team, Arsenal, ...
... on the pitch, obviously).
When Sunderland signed Jim Baxter from Rangers they also bought his cousin George Kinnell to stop the Slim One getting homesick. Baxter apparently got sick on many occasions ...
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From Celtic, Rangers and St Mirren to Newcastle and the two Merseyside clubs, supporters’ groups have been coming together to assist people in their time of need
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... work and the semi-professional game.
He moved between Sutton Coldfield Town and Stafford Rangers last season, but the travelling was taking its toll. Out of action with a knee injury, he’s waiting ...
... atop a Devonshire haystack. He marries the Wren.
This sort of Ealing Studios idyll contributed to Rangers’ liquidation; the desperation to recreate everything embodied by the club’s most ...
... Smith’s big moment in 1983. He’d had a few before, he kept telling us, playing in six cup finals with Rangers and so on, but we weren’t really listening. Not after what he did from eight ...
... soon cashed in on Kanchelskis, selling him to Fiorentina – where he broke his ankle and flopped. Signing for Rangers, he fell out with Dick Advocaat, whom he accuses here of being money-obsessed ...
... and in whose captivating testimony you see what it is that motivates someone to get out of bed in winter to get sworn at by a bunch of angry strangers.
The Edmonton League chairman makes a blink-and-you-miss-it ...
... the season started badly on the pitch with seven consecutive defeats and 16 goals conceded. Although the team were scoring goals, the defence, so secure last season, looked like strangers.
Off the ...
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After an inconsistent start that has included some historic losses, Rangers’ League Cup quarter-final against Partick could ease pressure on the manager
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Top two for Celtic, Aberdeen to have a decent cup run and Rangers to resume “the world’s most tiresome duopoly” – what WSC contributors got right ...
... they finished third in the old Scottish First Division, behind Rangers and Kilmarnock, and even had a new stand built in 1964. From that year onwards, however, the club were allowed to deteriorate under ...
... May ~ The only team my Dad's ever really supported is Rangers. I remember his boisterous mood one morning as he came out the bathroom singing “Follow Follow” after the previous night's victo ...