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Rangers’ Eusebio Cup match against Benfica, scheduled for Friday October 6, has been cancelled.
Benfica, who lost 5-0 away to FC Basel in the Champions League last midweek, have pulled out and Rangers are still waiting for an explanation.
Rangers were due to fly out to Canada for the match – scheduled for Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton – on Tuesday 3 October but were informed of Benfica’s decision only hours ago.
The organisers, Elite Soccer Entertainment, have apologised but Rangers will be expressing their displeasure on behalf of themselves and their supporters in the strongest possible terms.
Rangers also wish to apologise to those fans, who had made arrangements to travel, and those in Canada, who were looking forward to the match.
Rangers will take legal advice before commenting further.
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7 minutes ago, K.A.I said:
Can you explain to me where he cleared it up?
By saying he didn't pick him but he's one of our own?
I accept what he said there (as I said in my first post) but my point is, what about next week, or the next week? what will he say then? he can't keep saying the same thing because he's treating the fans as stupid if he does.
You don't take your vice-captain out the game completely like that and just by saying "he's one of our own" .. that's all I was meaning about it leaves more questions than answers.
If Miller plays next game then fair enough, the differences have been resolved and no more really needs said to be fair - but do you honestly think things will be back to normal and he'll be playing next game?
pretty clear to me if not to you.
Asked what the issue was with Miller’s omission, Caixinha said: “No, nothing. One of the tasks I have as a manager is to pick the team, pick the 20 players who came with us here tonight.
“I took the decision not to pick him for the match. That’s all. Why should I have any issue with him? He’s just not on the list but he’s one of ours.”
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2 minutes ago, K.A.I said:
Where have I criticised him in these posts? by saying he's not cleared everything up and he has to be accountable for his decisions?
Wow stinging criticism
he cleared it up succinctly,that you don’t accept his explanation is moot.
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Just now, K.A.I said:
Hold on a minute - he's the manager who's made a massive decision (taking Miller right out the frame) he needs to be accountable for it and realise that questions will be asked.
What you've said there is slightly disturbing as, as so many others have exhibited on here in recent days, absolve Pedro for any sort of responsibility for anything.
I'm not saying Pedro needs to come out and give away club business in regards to this Miller circus but he's not really cleared a single thing up either. This is part of his problem. A big part of it.
you exaggerate,I simply said let him manage,if constantly criticising him floats your boat,sail away.
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2 minutes ago, K.A.I said:
What he's saying (Pedro) is all good and well about him being 'one of ours' but when he doesn't play next week, or the next, what will his soundbyte be then?
That article doesn't clear anything up. In fact probably leaves more questions than answers.
he’s the manager leave him to manage rather than 2nd guessing him every step of the way.
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47 minutes ago, Smile said:
Who's the source from the board that's leaking stories to the Rangers Observer, what leaks are okay.?
probably the same one who is leaking like a tea bag to the press,courageous reporting and all that jazz ?
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1 hour ago, Redwhiteandblue said:
Apparently Alex Rae has said the same.
Someone from the club has to come out sharpish and tell us exactly why KM has been sent to train with the youths.
heard last night the leak is from the executive,said to be a split regards Pedro, who knows.
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1 minute ago, The Dude said:
That's the one. I always get those two mixed up.
His final article for the record burned a LOT of bridges, and not just with the Record.
The fact Waddell is one of the ones saying it wasn't Miller only reinforces it was Miller for me. He and Traynor are almost as pally as Traynor and Jackson.
jackson and traynor are enemies, traynor and devlin have been buds for years.
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6 minutes ago, DMax399 said:
Denial mode in full swing.
If Miller is guilty, then he deserves the bullet.
I couldn't care less what 2 turds from the press say regarding this, or anything else to be honest.
Pedro called KM one of ours twice last night,when interviewers tried to goad him,I do like his style no denials just states a simple fact,class personified ?
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1 minute ago, K.A.I said:
It's actually. Imagine having no fans at any away games every again supporting and cheering on the team? we find it difficult enough at some venues, think what it would be like with zero fans. That's galling.
It’s up to each and everyone’s principles what the do, mine tell me never to give those who tried to kill us a single penny,each to their own.
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hannah and waddel say miller is not the source/leaker of their info,both deny having spoken to him.
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Nothing like putting silver in the hand of those who tried to slit your throat,they can take a flying fuk with their 17,000 tickets and every other team also,wouldn’t piss on an away ground if it was on fire !
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reminds me of brian reid souness’s last signing for Rangers,though not as good at this stage.
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Absolutely nothing of controversy.
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Is he training with ghe kids or doing his mormal helping Murty out with the development squad,as he is dropped from the first team squad ?
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If it is KM who is seen as a disruptive influence why would you put him with the most impressionable people in our setup, the kids ?
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8 minutes ago, Perth_Campsie_Ger said:
They are you bent cunt
no probs doris ?
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Just now, Perth_Campsie_Ger said:
Fuck up ya prick!
dry yir eyes sugar ?
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41 minutes ago, Perth_Campsie_Ger said:
Body language says it all....
All the best in your next job
You’re wasted on here, should be on strictly with mystic meg !
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good win,onwards and upwards.
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Press seem to have decided Pedro’s time is up, about time our gutless board got on the front foot,the article totally disses everything about the club.
Neil Cameron
BEING a Rangers supporter for most of the 1990s, especially the first of half of that decade, must have been quite good fun.
The Ibrox team dominated at home, if not abroad, and some of the club’s greatest ever players – the likes of McCoist, Goram and Gough – were in their prime. Trebles and doubles were collected and, just to add some icing to an already sweet cake, celtic were a mess.
To concentrate on the Walter Smith years, which ended with nine league titles in a row and many, many cup final wins, Rangers lorded it over the rest. Triumphalism was the word of the day down Ibrox way, while their old friends across the city looked at one stage that they would out of business.
Back then, when celtic were knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Falkirk and Wayne Biggins was considered a footballer, those who wore green and white had only two things which prevented them from walking out to the back shed with a service revolver.
Every so often they would win an Old Firm game and, on a few occasions, Rangers would take a doing in Europe.
That was it. That’s how low it got for Tims everywhere. It's why I found it hilarious when some fans, the younger ones, called Ronny Deila’s team the “worst celtic team ever” when beating Motherwell in Britpop time was viewed as something of a triumph.
celtic were hopeless, but in Paul McStay and John Collins, they had two fine players who, on their day, could inspire their otherwise hapless team-mates to a win over Rangers, which usually closed the gap at the top to 15 points. In October.
Even the less than sensational Lou Macari won an Old Firm game, and at Ibrox as well, it was his first game as manager, and he even got a draw at the home of Rangers when celtic fans were banned from the match.
Rangers, of course, won more often than not and there were a few easy wins in there. But there were as many 1-0s or 2-1s with Goram at one end and McCoist at the other proving the difference in a genuinely tight contest.
And then there were the Champions League nights. You know you’ve hit rock bottom as a football supporter when the highlight of any season is watching your biggest rivals on the biggest stage losing a game your own team would have been lucky to score nil in.
But that’s where celtic were in the 1990s and, for a long time, the football club looked done.
However, everyone did know how to solve the problems. The old families had to be shown the door, a new owner with money brought in, a move to Hampden so celtic Park could be rebuilt, a share issue needed to be held, and some quality players signed.
Fergus McCann paid for all of this, along with the punters, but the grand plan was hardly his because it was the obvious thing to do.
But times have changed and this, now, is celtic's time to hog the limelight.
For those of a Rangers persuasion, the 5-0 thrashing by Paris Saint-Germain might just be the best thing to happen to them this campaign.
Unlike celtic of 25 years ago, this Rangers team aren’t winning any Old Firm games and don’t appear capable of laying a glove on their oldest rivals any time soon.
Not only that, but unless I’m missing something, there is no grand plan to turn things around. Not again. The plan, thus far, has been to get Dave King in and then appoint a man who couldn’t win a league in Qatar.
King is Rangers’ McCann, to a degree and there are rich fans in the boardroom, the finances are okay again, but they are as far away from celtic as celtic were pre-bunnet.
Pedro Caixinha is not the man for this movie. I will be stunned if he survives this season. His best and only hope is that he can get enough of a tune from his players to the extent they win the Betfred Cup, but you would get long odds on that.
It’s hard to say how much money was really spent in the summer but in fairness to King and the board, they did provide funds, it’s just that they were wasted and I don’t think Caixinha will disprove this.
Rangers are as far behind celtic as they were ahead of the time when every goal for the home side was greeted with “sack the board” for those who had bothered to turn up.
And sacking them did work. But this isn’t a road Rangers will go down. Who would take over from an ousted board? Which means this club will be forced to live in celtic’s shadow for generations to come.
And another thing . . .
WELL done to the celtic fan who thought it was a great idea to take, and then throw, a flare at Ibrox.
Some might say that it was the act of a ned for whom reading a book without pop-up pictures is a challenge but he, and will be some wee guy, will fight their corner in an articulate manner.
It would go something along the lines of: “No pyro, no party, bud.” Sighs.
celtic as a club are heading for trouble. There is a real unsavoury element among the support these days who seem hell bent on getting fines and bans.
The pro-IRA crap still gets belted out, as if that has any relevance to 21st-century Scotland.
And for those Rangers fans trying to take the moral high ground, it wasn’t just few singing about Paedos, Bobby Sands and the Billy Boys, which I am sure is still banned.
And yet nothing will be said about it. This wee country of ours is brilliant, but a few of the citizens need to simply grow up. I won’t hold my breath.
Pedro,Kenny is one of ours !
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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so did Alfie Conn of The Rangers Hall of Fame.