Beware hat-trick of hell.ALLY McCOIST Alistair "Ally" Murdoch McCoist MBE (born September 24, 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional football player who played as a striker. He is currently assistant manager at Scottish Premier League club Rangers. has tasted defeat on his two previous visits to Bucharest and admits Rangers' Euro adventure will be in tatters tat·ter 1 n. 1. A torn and hanging piece of cloth; a shred. 2. tatters Torn and ragged clothing; rags. tr. & intr.v. if he fails to break that sequence tonight. McCoist made a rapid recovery from knee surgery to face Steaua Bucharest in the European Cup quarter-final back in 1988. The club's record scorer was also part of Walter Smith's side who took on the same opponents in the opening Champions League group game of season 1995-96, though ended up losing to a Daniel Prodan Daniel Claudiu Prodan (born 23 March 1972) is a retired Romanian soccer defender. He was born in Satu Mare and debuted in Divizia A with Steaua Bucureşti in 1992. Prodan won five consecutive league titles with Steaua before moving to play in Spain. goal. But now a hat-trick of losses in the capital city - this time to Unirea - would almost certainly see Rangers Rapidly deployable airborne light infantry organized and trained to conduct highly complex joint direct action operations in coordination with or in support of other special operations units of all Services. dumped out of the Champions League and denied the a consolation place in the Europa League. McCoist said: "To lose 4-1 against Unirea was bitterly disappointing. We all felt it. We have to do better in Bucharest and we will. "When I first played against Steaua I remember coming back from a cartilage cartilage (kär`təlĭj), flexible semiopaque connective tissue without blood vessels or nerve cells. It forms part of the skeletal system in humans and in other vertebrates, and is also known as gristle. op and the majority of the crowd were made up of army and local police. "It was also strange because on the morning of the game two helicopters had to come down on the pitch to take the snow off it. "They had a great team at the time with the likes of Hagi and Lacatus. We beat them in the return at Ibrox but they scored early on and we went out 3-2 on aggregate." CAPTION(S): WARNING: McCoist |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion