Ruben Cassar wrote:hulmey wrote:Ruben Cassar wrote:Basically Rangers know how to do only one thing. 10 men in the box and defend. And the Brits used to complain about the Italians and their "catenaccio". Rangers are much worse. They kill the game of football. It was a deserved win for Zenit who know how to create some action.
Do you expect anything more from a 2nd rate team. Im surprised rangers got past the very very bad Fioretina....
Even against Everton, Fiorentina were bad!!
Very bad Fiorentina? Are we a bit biased here hulmey? I know you hate Italian clubs. :p
Fiorentina totally demolished Rangers in their home and away matches, constantly playing in Rangers' half. They were unlucky not to find the goal. Rangers just got lucky with the penalty shoot out. Even in the semi final the only thing Rangers did was defend with 11 men while Fiorentina created football.
first things first. RIP Tommy Burns a very good player and a really good guy.
Ruben, Rangers football maybe negative but it gets results. you talk about Foirentina and possesion, you could say that Barcelaona had 67% possesion against Man United, but United went through because Barca could not score. so i'm not falling for that we did not deserve to get to the final. i'm a Rangers fan, because all my family are from Glasgow.
anyway, what a great day i had. thousands upon thousands just roaming the streets drinking and singing. where the violence was i was nowhere near and did not know anything about it. there were 3 fa zones, with 3big screens. Piccadilly Gardens(where the violence was) was closed 4 hour before kick off because it was full to the brim(it is a very large area). the screen went off just before kick off so that is why it flared up.
Albert Square was another fan zone, but my brother said they were not selling beer there. this is where the Zenit fans were supposed to be, but there was that many Rangers fans they left.
Cathedral Gardens where i was closed with about 1 1/2 before kick off and there was no violence there a hell of a lot of singing and drinking. the buildng at the side off it where we were, they were filming from a window and people were trying to kick footballs through it(it was about 3 floors up). eventually 1 went through the window and hit the woman reporter on her head. a very loud cheer went up for that one and we got the ball back aswell.
went to Tesco's(on Market st, city centre) early on for some beer, got there and there was none left. only spirits and wine, not much spirits left either, so i got a bottle of rose wine. wet into the Arndale centre into Aldi and there was not much beer left there aswell. got some lager(no cider) and one of my cousins got a 24 pack of lager. it was packed to the rafter in Aldi and the atmosphere in there was amazing. the people behind the tills were probably wondering what the f*ck was going on. there was a few people in there who were just doing their shopping.
everywhere you looked, there were Rangers fans. i don't know how many was there as altogether, but it must off been well over 120,000.
what a great day, it's just a pity about the result, but none the less a treble will be a great year.
