THE reality of the UEFA Cup final hit me yesterday.
We arrived at Manchester Airport after training
at Murray Park and the realisation dawned: I’m now preparing for a European final – a situation beyond my wildest dreams when I signed.
SITTING in a room filled with portraits of revered members of Falkirk's Hall of Fame, there was something slightly surreal about Carl Finnigan attributing his side's recent winning run
to the inspirational powers of happy hardcore.
Louis van Gaal is a disciple and master philosopher of Total Football. The AZ Alkmaar coach, predictably, joined the lobbyists who consider Rangers’ defiant grind to the UEFA Cup final an affront to the principles of the game.
Out-of-favour Rangers midfielder Thomas Buffel looks set for a return to Dutch side Feyenoord this summer. Reports in Belgium claim the midfielder, who is a free agent at the end of the season, is wanted by his former club on a Bosman deal.
Oleg Salenko believes Zenit St Petersburg will prove too strong for Rangers in next week’s UEFA Cup Final. Salenko, a native of St Petersburg, spent six unsuccessful months at Ibrox in 1995.
There is more to home and away for Christian Dailly than the particulars of the fixture list. The loan signing from
West Ham has a post-match routine that involves a flight back to Essex to see his wife and four children.
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