Next weekend will be a very tense one in Scotland, and Glasgow in particular. Celtic and Rangers will be competing in their final games of the SPL season and fighting for the championship, level on points and on goal difference. A 2-0 win for Rangers at Hearts today has put them ahead on goals scored, by just one goal. Rangers' penalty struggles continued at Tynecastle this afternoon when Shota Arveladze emulated his captain Barry Ferguson by missing from the spot in the second half, with the scores level. Fortunately for him, Ronald de Boer put them in the lead just minutes later, and Peter Lovenkrands added another to earn Rangers a point and save Arveladze a black eye from coach Alex McLeish. "What was going through my head when he missed the penalty? That I was going to punch him after the game!" joked McLeish. I thought that it was drifting away from us then we scored a fantastic goal. Shota played his part with the cross and it was a great header from Ronald. I thought the steam went out of Hearts after that and we could have scored more than the two goals. "The win was a sigh of relief. Missing the penalty again, you wondered if it was going to be our year. Then, we have come up with a fantastic goal. Ronald got to the near post and it was a great header. The goalkeeper had done really well up until then but it was unstoppable. Normally, Barry has been fantastic and had a great record. He missed a couple at Dundee and they are all asking to take them now. "I spoke to Shota before the game and he said he wanted to take it. Normally, he is very assured but it was a great save by the goalie. If we get one next week, it is down to the players. I will let them decide if there is confidence out there. It was a really tough game for us," McLeish admitted. However, the points were the important thing and the win makes sure that there is just a goal between the neighbours at the top of the SPL going into the last game. McLeish and his opposite number Martin O'Neill will be tense next weekend, and the Rangers boss admits that he will have to have one ear on how Celtic are doing: "I'm sure there will be a few transistor radios on the go next week. It is a wonderful end to the season. We'd like to have tied it up already and Celtic will think the same. We have got home advantage and today was a really important game for us. To get a couple of goals into the bargain was a real bonus for us."
Thanks for the update Mario, but if you are going to post articles in (almost) their entirety, proppriety demmands that you attribute them. Just because it's on a BBS doesn't mean it's not plagarism.
Columbia Guide to Online Style BBS: Bulletin Board System. Usage dates from early days of pre-WWW Internet when many public fora were hosted on stand-alone servers accessed via terminal session. Still a generic term of art for online communities, discussion groups, etc. Love, The English Nazi. "Do as I say not as I do."
Hey, ignorace of the law is no excuse. Besides, I'm just phukin' wit ye, ya silly git. I'm in too good a mood right now. At least for another seven hours or so.