jdocherty72 215 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 It's my homepage and was scrolling through the tabs and then I see this Rangers recover to escape humiliationRangers were rocked to the core before coming back to beat East Stirling 5-1 in their first Third Division game to be played at Ibrox.The lowly visitors - who were playing in front of a world record crowd of 49,118 rather than their normal 300 - went ahead after just three minutes when they were awarded a penalty, with Paul Quinn tucking the ball away to suggest that an epic shock could be on the cards.But the home side got back on terms quickly, Andy Little equalising after a quarter of an hour before then putting his side ahead just before the break.Little scored again near the end to record a hat-trick, while Fran Sandanza and Lee McCulloch also got on the scoresheet in the second half as Ally McCoist's side pulled away.The attendance figure smashed the previous record for fans at a fourth-tier match, which was set when 37,774 turned up to see Crystal Palace play Millwall at Selhurst Park in 1961 in the old English fourth division.The Ibrox crowd was larger than the combined attendance for last weekend's five Scottish Premier League matches of 40,383.The heading is ridiculous, only once you click on the article does it tell you we humped them 5-1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabawsa 888 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 C'mon mate. The editor is only doing their job. They need to grab your attention with a headline so you home in on it. The way it reads to me is "World famous football team overcome early shock to win handsomely in front of a world record crowd that has stood for decades. What a massive club". Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LythamGer 7 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Read the match report on the BBC website - it's not exactly glowing. You'd think we had just scraped a narrow win, or even a draw, by the tone of it.Then again, shouldn't really expect anything else from that lot! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdocherty72 215 Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Read the match report on the BBC website - it's not exactly glowing. You'd think we had just scraped a narrow win, or even a draw, by the tone of it.Then again, shouldn't really expect anything else from that lot!Exactly what I'm getting at.Hardly scraped to a 2-1 win, we won 5-1 comfortably Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM1872 3,744 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Who gives a fuck what the media write any more.It pleases the rest of the country to read the drab articles but anybody who was there, has heard from someone directly who was there or who sees the game back will know that despite the poor and numbing start we were the better team and Ibrox, as well as the Club, was as alive as ever.The second half performance in particular was excellent I thought. Today we sent out a defying message to this cunt of a country. The fight back has sincerely begun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Robot 21,398 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 yes 5 going on 15 and yip the big headline to encourage you to read. Media these days seems to be all about trolling. listened to a part of radio Clyde and a guy was telling Jim dellahunt to man up and start asking some real questions and because he never had an answer he got cut off. it was so pathetic on Clydes part. somes them up give me limmy anyday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Sasac 164 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Escaped a humiliating defeat? Because we were a goal down after 3 minutes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Negri's Beard 1,423 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Some escape that. I mean, to be 1 down with 87 minutes to go and to somehow still sneak a win.We. Got. Lucky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachothelegend 1,932 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Sorry it was the only way shire where ever going tae score all day.Numbnuts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
choochooblue 342 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I did expect a negative report or 2 after the game , but in a nutshell its 3 points in the bag , thats all that counts but I do think we will have moments of complacency this season . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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