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With Sasa Papac injured, it seemed the perfect opportunity for the left back to make his return in the 3-1 victory over Mark McGhee’s Young Bhoys of Motherwell…err…at left midfield? So Rangers lined up with a right back at left back, a left back at left midfield and a old dumplin’ at right back!
A team selection so baffling even Alex McLeish was confused. “Is Namouchi injured?” he asked.
Nonetheless Stevie put in a solid display in his first top team appearance in just under a year and even provided the cross for Velicka’s (yes, really) opening goal. Like many I thought he had played his last game in a Rangers shirt following his horrendous bad luck with injury and illness. Hopefully he’ll feature much more regularly in the future.
All the best Stevie!
HE GETS THE BALL AND HE LAYS IT OFF?
Not only that but Boyd put in a tremendous shift in the match, winning his fair share of headers and even linking up play with the midfield, causing Ally McCoist to gush that it was his best performance for Rangers since Ally and uncle Walter came home.
Boydy has undoubtedly made an effort to improve his overall game and perhaps the manager’s actions against his mate Ma Baw has been the wake up call he badly needed. Whatever the case, he is now just one goal shy of his 100th goal for the club. Fate is setting it up nicely for him to hit the ton against the vermin next month. Maybe that would silence his critics for good. It’s a beautiful dream.
BOUGHIE WONDERLAND
At last they’ve only gone and done it. The SPL have actually made a decision without pandering to the needs of the vermin. 
While you all take a moment to digest that information I’ll go get a beer.
Recovered? Good. The final all crucial Old Firm match of the season will take place on May 9 meaning that Madjid Bougherra will be available to play after all, after having served his one match suspension. Boughie has only faced the vermin once this season, that glorious August afternoon when a Thomson and Mendes inspired Rangers played them off the park in a 4-2 spanking.
What makes the news all the sweeter is the Daily Rebel’s story about their fans fury over the announcement which meant that Bougherra would be available but Scott Brown wouldn’t. Apparently vermin fans’ chief Peter Rafferty is upset that the SPL have handed Rangers an advantage in the title race.
Where was Mr Rafferty when the very same SPL were forcing Rangers to play 7 games in just 19 days at the end of last season, including a UEFA Cup final? Oh that’s right, he was sitting rubbing his hands gleefully along with the rest of the unemployed motley crue.
The fact is if Scott Brown didn’t run about a football pitch like a chibbed up ned after you’ve stolen his Burberry cap then he would be available to play.
And maybe the police wouldn’t have objected to the match being scheduled for the first fixture after the split, the May Day bank holiday weekend when Bougherra would also have been suspended, had the very supporters Rafferty represents not caused havoc the last time an Old Firm match was played then.
What goes around comes around Rafferty. You’ve had you’re time. Ours is now.
We Are The People.
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