Football: Big Eck's warning.Byline: By IAIN CAMPBELL Iain Campbell (born 28 June 1985 in Kirkcaldy) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock. He started his career with Dunfermline Athletic and joined Kilmarnock in August 2006 for an undisclosed fee. ALEX McLEISH has insisted that his 100-1 outsiders can overcome Villarreal and book a place in the Champions League quarter-finals. Rangers have been written off by the bookies and most of Europe as they eye the resumption of Europe's elite tournament next month. The Primera Liga outfit ended Celtic's UEFA UEFA Union of European Football Associations UEFA n abbr (= Union of European Football Associations) → U.E.F.A. Cup ambitions in 2004 and Riquelme and company are expecting Rangers to be less of a threat than Martin O'Neill's side were. McLeish though insisted: "We have ambitions for 2006. We still won't give up on anything. "We have a last 16 tie in the Champions League where we have a fighting chance one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. See also: Fighting . "If we can get everybody back playing and fighting for places then we will absolutely have a chance going forward." |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion