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Check this heart warming article on BBC Scotland today. Something to make the bears feel better. The national broadcaster doing their bit for the continuation myth and not a hint of irony in anything EBT De Boer said.
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Rangers: Old Firm derby ‘a privilege’ to play in – Ronald de Boer
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Ronald de Boer
“The Old Firm derby turned players into angry wolves”
Former Rangers star Ronald de Boer has praised the “intensity” of Old Firm derby matches and insists they were a “privilege” to play in.
De Boer, who played for the Ibrox club for four years from 2000, said in games between the Glasgow rivals Scottish players turned “into angry wolves”.
“People say you’ve never experienced something like this [Old Firm] before and it was true,” he told BBC Scotland.
“It was amazing. It’s part of life as a Glaswegian.”
The former Dutch international, who signed for Rangers from Barcelona in 2000, praised Glasgow’s insatiable appetite for football.
Ronald de Boer
De Boer earned 67 caps for the Netherlands and played in two World Cups
Scoring in first Old Firm game
“The experience was like, you’ve heard about it and people say you’ve never experienced something like this before and it was true. It was amazing. And you see the change in the Scottish players, a button turns: red eyes, they’re like angry wolves. They were in another world and they kicked everything that was green and white, vice versa also.
“I’d never seen so much kicking in my life in a football game. And the referee was like, ‘it’s okay’. Normally in Holland, it would be a red card or at least yellow.
“It ended up with nine men or something; that was really what I remember from my first [Old Firm] game. Scoring was a great feeling and going to the fans – a great feeling.”
Where does Old Firm derby rate?
“I always say: El Clasico, not far in comparison with intensity with Rangers v Celtic. You feel it, even the Barcelona players say that, when they go to Celtic Park, when they lost when Rod Stewart was crying, it was a great moment.
“The intensity – an unbelievable privilege to stand on the pitch. Everywhere I go, if I go to Dubai or Australia, and you meet Scottish people, in Holland maybe they’d never say ‘I’m a Feyenoord fan’ or ‘I’m an Ajax fan’ – [the Scottish people say] ‘I’m a Celtic fan’ or ‘by the way, I’m a bluenose’ always – until they die. It’s unbelievable, it’s so in their veins and in their blood. It’s part of life as a Glaswegian.”
Stopping Celtic’s domination under Martin O’Neill
“Yes of course, because it hurts. Not winning the league and your biggest rival is getting away with it quite comfortably. They had a great team, but you also feel like, maybe a [few] quality injections, then we could do it.
Ronald de Boer in action in the Old Firm game against Henrik Larsson and Neil Lennon
“I have a blue heart”
“So, the pressure was on every time, especially when you play those games and you meet each other at least four times a year.
“Then the third year, when it happens, so much (pressure) fell off your shoulders and you were so happy for the fans – and winning the treble was also a long time ago when it was [last] achieved – it makes it special.
“Then you look at yourself and what I said about winning the Champions League, you’re really part of it. You have 12, 13 players who are really important in that treble – you were one of them.”
On scoring 20 goals that season
“Yes, and I had over 20 assists. That was also one of my skills – sending someone away. I had a lot of great moments and [was] really consistent the whole season. When I look back, even with Ajax, scoring 20 goals and having 20 assists [for Rangers] I had never achieved that.”
Was Barry Ferguson like one of those “angry wolves?”
“Yes, especially the first game. He was really kicking everybody, and I thought: ‘Barry, you can do so much better than this’, because he was a really good player. But then he forgot his football skills and he was like: ‘I’m going to kick everything that’s green and white’.”
Final day when he won the treble
“It was difficult but an unbelievable relief when we won it because it was so important after two seasons of not even being close to Celtic. To win the treble was amazing.”
Ronald de Boer and Barry Ferguson
Ronald de Boer and Barry Ferguson in action during their Rangers days
How far away are Rangers from challenging Celtic?
“I think that in two years’ time they can challenge. Not this season, another season… two seasons more and from the third season then they can challenge.”
On Rangers’ financial troubles
“You thought this was a never-ending story. Celtic and Rangers will always be together and no one gets those clubs down. And when this happened, it’s so sad. When you’re playing there for four years you know what it means for the fans and that’s something that’s very painful.
“I have a blue heart… it’s something that you always wear. You always hope that they do well, when you see them struggling so much, it hurts.”
Listen to the full interview with Ronald de Boer on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Sportsound from noon today.
EMBRAMIKE SUPPORTING RES 12 on 20TH AUGUST 2017 12:05 PM
Astana FC v Celtic FC
UCL Play-Off, 2nd Leg, 22/08/2017, 17:30 CET – Astana (KAZ)
Match Officials
Referee: Pavel Královec (CZE)
Assistant Referees: Roman Slyško (SVK), Ivo Nádvorník (CZE)
Additional Assistant Referees: Petr Ardeleánu (CZE), Karel Hrubeš (CZE)
Fourth Official: Martin Wilczek (CZE)
UEFA Referee Observer: Neale Barry (ENG)
UEFA Delegate: Charles Schaack (LUX)
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Reassuring that the ref will have the support of the meticulous fourth official in any difficult decisions, but maybe best avoid any advice from the second additional assistant referee.
Thetimreaper
“I have a blue heart… it’s something that you always wear. You always hope that they do well, when you see them struggling so much, it hurts.”
Ronald the Bore
Can just picture the interviewer nodding sagely in agreement, as he chokes back the tears.
“Financial troubles”. Forgot ‘fatal’, obviously.
ttr – it’s all they’ll have for a long time – the papers won’t have any good rangers stories to sell for a long time
THETIMREAPER
The latest in the ex Rangers Dutch contingent series from the BBC. It’s a transferable question/answer session no matter who they are talking to, De Boer, Mols, Numan. Rangers were brilliant, fans were brilliant, we won titles on the pitch, no title stripping, I was told ebt was ok, what side letter?
Considering the BBC are in dispute with Sevco for the last year it’s amazing how they pander to them so much.
The hurt of the SMSM has a new level this morning.
I read one journo who said ..yesterday when we laughed at Boyd….
” they never laughed when he played for Sevco!”
The hurt was palpable.. His article was prefaced with the current Sevco spin that UCL money is bad for Celtic as it increases the gulf!
The rubbish we must endure..
Yet…..Nothing but arrogance when minty was “involved” in Scottish football..
HH
Btw…the spaces at rugby park..an utter farce..many hoops wanted to go but the process for getting tickets is too convoluted
Ronald So Sore, on Rangers’ (1872-2012) cheating.
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THETIMREAPER
De Boer-I have a blue heart.
Not true. He has a black heart. He knows his part in the anti-football scandal which his club introduced.
All he had to say-as the famed player he was-is that my contract is a legal document with my name on it. I have never been presented with anything like this before,I will not sign it.
He didn’t. He knows he’s a tax-dodger.
Arranmorebhoy
I read one journo who said ..yesterday when we laughed at Boyd….
” they never laughed when he played for Sevco!”
Watched a documentary on Bob Monkhouse last night which was surprisingly very good.
Some of his qoutes were very funny
“People laughed at me when I told them I wanted to be a comedian,…well they’re not laughing now”
Old ones are the best
my favorite monkhouse joke ,,,,,,,,,,,,
i want to die like my father did, peacefully in his sleep,
not crying and screaming like his passengers
Arran @12:48
I’m pretty sure he only scored once against us !
As for away tickets, it’s become a closed shop. For the first time in 10 years I couldn’t attend any away games last season which makes it really difficult to apply for one. Now look at the criteria to even get a ticket for Rugby Park, I got one on the final ballot last Monday night.
the daftness of it all is rugby park had 8,000 vacant seats.
they could price sensibly and sell thousands more to celtic fans, particularly families.
as a business model its absolutely daft.
hell mend them when the boycott comes or they get relegated
Another win, another steady performance, not scintillating but very professional. Brendan brings in the young bhoys and they’re rising to the challenge he is setting, time and again. It all bodes so well for the future going forward, but as usual we have the pish in the smsm of EPL teams in for our players. They have Jozo away to the mighty Burnley and Erik back to Denmark to Copenhagen.
Trying to unsettle KT as well, their pain is there for all to see, and it’s wonderful to behold.
They see Brendan building a young lean squad to try and challenge in Europe and dominate domestically and it’s breaking their hearts.
We’re like a runaway train while we look over our shoulder at pantomime Pedro steering the wee sevco choo choo into a lay-by so we can lap them again.
Strap yourselves in Bhoys and Ghirls for another epic season, and get on board Brendan’s bullet train, it’s gonna be a one helluva ride.
Andy Webster on sportssound picks his FIVE a side team, Gordon, Presley, Weir, Davis, Fletcher & Boyd !!!!!
Six players, cheating is on the Huns DNA :-)
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Saint Stivs
That’s a beauty!
I like his Salary McCoist one, “What do gardeners do when they retire?”
So proud of the banner at Killmarnock yesterday.. That’s us, All Inclusive, Welcoming, Open to All..
What other Club states that??
Proud to be a Celt.
Paul Dykes talks to former Celtic captain Andy Lynch and special guest Pat Stanton in the new CQN Podcast, a Celtic State of Mind – find link at bottom of page 1.
Do I detect another mass deletion of posts without explanation?
Pretty damn sure GREENPINATA didn’t have a page podium earlier. But congratulations for it anyway.
Oooooops,even as I write this,the podium has changed to THETIMREAPER.
WTF??
TREBLEWINNINGCAPTAINS
Pat only played for us for one season.
Sadly.
But what a season,and what a player.
Can you be a legend in one season?
You can if yer Pat Stanton.
BMCUWP
Yeah, on North Korea Quick News/CQN, if the mods dont like the humour, they delete it.
Taking on the role of judgement like some tin-pot dictator.
Pathetic it is.
HH
TGM 2.12
Not even if they don’t like the humour.
Remember when some posters were reprimanded for taking about cats, so it’s even if the mod doesn’t like the topic.
They said it was a football blog, that was funny.
Hail Hail
JNP
Yeah, a culturally superior brand of moderation of the highest standards.
No ‘inane’ humour, it upsets the balance of the blog, which should only be about football.
HH
TGM.
Inane, that was it, that was the word that was used.
If the blog was only about football posts it would be so boring.
There have been some great educational posts on this site but the vast majority have not been about football.
Hail Hail
JNP
It is ok though to quote Enoch Powell, and to support fascism, but jokes, thats taking things too far.
Couldnae make it up.
HH
Talk about football ? Ok.
Huddersfield v Newcastle. Very little football been played yet by two teams who between them have spent almost £100m this summer. Not seen one player yet who could get into yesterdays Celtic team, never mind be a first pick in his own position.
Neither of these two could live with Brendan’s Celtic.
Dire. Absolutely dire.
JNP
Winston Smith, sitting in his wee booth in the Ministry of Truth, deleting reality to suit Big Brother.
Seems somewhat familiar.
HH
Ronald De Boer really liked Canniggas body, hope Ronald appreciated the GB banner yesterday :-)
Still loved the De Boer song
“Ones called Ronald, Ones called Frank, one missed a penalty the other ones a … plank”
Right then. Sumpin abbot football.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Nope. Got nuthin’.
HH
Abbot football?
The mind boggles
Huddesfield on course to be joint top of the Best League in the World…
Gerryfaethebrig.
Was it not the other one is rank? :-))
TGM 251.
Now that made me laugh, others though may choose to delete.
As an historian it must make you think, what is the truth and what was deleted?
Hail Hail
I don’t know how Tom English can call himself a journalist. Asks De Boer if he would have joined Rangers without an EBT. Why not ask if he would have joined for half the wages?
Same butt-licking guff he did with Mols.
Numan next week?
JNP
Like you said, there are many educational posts on CQN. I could post on hundreds of topics, i dont bother though because of the narrow-mindedness of some of the mods. im well versed in these petty attempts to control the narrative, i see it all the time. Agenda, pure and simple.
HH
The Bore………….
Utter hunned-up, arrogant, ignorant, nonsense.
A guff-indulged nugget.
Glass2/3
He isnt a journalist, more of a slave to the hun.
BBC Liars.
HH
GTTF 3.04pm
Totally agree Tom English glossing over the financial doping, he will be hard pressed with Numan before the EBTs were public knowledge am sure Artur said he was leaving the original Huns because his wages were being halved :-)
JNP … rank is probably correct :-)
Huddersfield Town are the only side in history to have won every @premierleague game they’ve played.