Rangers receive Napoli clue cards as ex star sounds Champions League alarm over Kvara
Moody Blue Marco Negri wasn’t exactly known for playing with a grin that reached from ear to ear.
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Moody Blue Marco Negri wasn’t exactly known for playing with a grin that reached from ear to ear.
Former top Scottish referee Hugh Dallas is becoming Turkish TV star - but is making a pit stop home to cover Celtic’s UEFA Youth League match against Real Madrid.
Gio van Bronckhorst has been linked with a top Dutch FA vacancy.
Jorg Albertz insists his famous Rangers goal celebrations in Eindhoven were for his family in the stand – not a signal to his sceptic in the dugout. Boss Dick Advocaat benched Albertz on another big Euro night but the midfielder came on to hit an 84th-minute winner.
Luc Nilis still looks back fondly on the company he kept during his years with PSV, after striking up deadly partnerships with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Brazilian superstar Ronaldo. But he admits he’d rather blank out his brush with Derek McInnes and Rangers.
Everyone associates the Champions League with glitz and glamour. And I got a taste of that as a young player at Rangers – even when I WASN’T playing. For our group game against Monaco in September 2000, myself and Peter Lovenkrands didn’t make the match-day squad. The current gaffer Gio van Bronckhorst scored the winning goal for us that night.
The fact it's a Champions League playoff tie means there would have been huge interest in Rangers' clash with PSV Eindhoven anyway. But the strong connection between the Dutch and the Ibrox club has added a bit of an extra edge to the massive Euro showdown
Confession time. I’ve got a soft spot for the Dutch. It was Dick Advocaat who gave me my big breakthrough as a first team player at Rangers alongside guys like Arthur Numan and Giovanni van Bronckhorst. A little later I’d be playing with the likes of Michael Mols, Ronald de Boer and Fernando Ricksen. And I always loved them because of their mentality.