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  1. Good luck to @Govan Rear Bear in trying to keep a match report to under 10,000 words for this one! Quite incredible, proud of our attacking play, great fight and desire, terrible defending at times, 3 pens, 6 yellows, a red, some great goals, some sitters missed, injuries, VAR, some ridiculous refereeing, this game had it all.
    6 points
  2. I saw this in The Guardian, and thought that I should post it here. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/18/burton-kane-hemmings-i-get-scared-before-games-im-not-embarrassed-saying-that Interview Burton's Kane Hemmings: 'I get scared before games. I’m not embarrassed saying that' Ben Fisher After years of suffering in silence the former Rangers forward is able to open up about fear of failure and mental health problems Thu 18 Feb 2021 14.47 GMT It is a couple of years since Kane Hemmings put his feelings down in words. A professional footballer, he wrote Scared, almost 900 words detailing a medley of emotions born of the fear of failure in which he talks about being petrified before a game of letting people down and weary of putting on a brave face to mask anxiety and suicidal thoughts. “When you feel that way, physically you feel tired and maybe a yard off it sometimes because you have all these emotions running through your body,” he says now. The piece begins with a dictionary definition of “play” which no longer resonates. “We don’t ‘play’ football,” the striker, who joined hometown club Burton Albion last summer, says now. “There is so much more riding on it, you can’t just go out there and ‘play’. There is a structure to it, there’s a gameplan, you have to do this, you have to run this way and that way, and you can’t just run about like you did with your mates. Having a good game only makes me feel like, ‘I need to do that again next week now’, but when you’re just playing for the fun of it, there are no expectations.” He accepts pressure comes with the territory but it is something he has grappled with since the beginning of his career. Going from Rangers, for whom he made 10 appearances, including in the Champions League at Malmö, to playing part-time for Cowdenbeath, training twice a week and washing his kit after games following his release at 21, was a shock. “It was a kick in the teeth, a kick to the ego. I loved my year at Cowdenbeath … but it’s not Rangers. I had to get rid of my car and I had to move in with a friend because it was the only place I could afford to live. I started a college course in sports coaching and I was going to college more than I was playing football. I held on to that for many years, thinking, ‘I could get this taken away from me at any point’, and that really, really scared me. It still scares me but I’m in a better place to deal with it now.” Five years ago, Hemmings was suffering in silence. He felt alienated living alone in Glasgow and was “drinking a lot during midweek, drinking on a Sunday and I would go out on a Saturday after most games”. At the end of a season in which he scored 26 goals for Dundee, he pulled on to the hard shoulder of the southbound M6 and spent 15 minutes crying, wondering why he was so low. Hemmings alludes to that moment in his writing – “I’ve just had the best season of my life and I hate it?” – but last year, after a “meltdown” at a friend’s partner’s 30th birthday party, came the realisation that he needed professional support. “I had a few drinks and I was just running about telling people I wanted to kill myself. I got took home, passed out, woke up in the morning, got picked up and took to training and I remember I went and sat in the kit women’s room and just broke down to her. She went and got the manager [James McPake] and he was brilliant. He said: ‘Listen, just go home and get your head right.’ That was a Monday and he said to come back in on the Friday … In a way, it was the best thing that happened to me because I got the help I needed.” Hemmings’ partner, Sophie, reached out to Mark Fleming at Positive Mental Health Scotland and he had a dozen sessions with Fleming’s wife, Aileen. The biggest takeaway, Hemmings says, was recognising the value of being open and expressing emotions. Scared was published anonymously in Mark Fleming’s book, Confessions of a Football Chaplain. “I would never have had these conversations two or three years ago. Never. I didn’t understand why I felt like I did so if I couldn’t figure it out, what was I meant to say to someone? Now I’m happy to talk to anyone about it. People are going to have bad days and bad weeks but it shouldn’t fester for years and years to the point where you’re saying the stuff I was saying.” If you speak to someone to get help, I can’t tell you how good it feels after He talks candidly about the impact of online abuse. “How’s it right that people can just go on to social media and say what they want?” Hemmings asks. “What are people getting from racially abusing someone? Or from abusing someone after a game? When I was at Barnsley, I didn’t play particularly great. I used to open up my phone on a Saturday evening and I didn’t know how to deal with these people telling me I’m terrible.” He turned to writing while at Notts County, during a season that culminated in the club dropping out of the Football League for the first time. “There’s people’s jobs at stake, money on the line, people’s careers … you have to be mentally strong to be able to deal with all that. Having to be like that all the time … it can take its toll. I get scared before every game. I’m not embarrassed saying that. I’ve tried to flip it on its head and turn it into a positive. ‘All right, I’m up for it,’ and embrace it. I feel I’m much more ready to deal with that pressure now.” Hemmings prepares a free lunch in the kitchen at the Burton’s Pirelli Stadium. Photograph: Matt West/Rex/Shutterstock Burton are bottom of League One but have won three of their past four matches under Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and could move out of the relegation zone if they beat Sunderland on Saturday. Hemmings has scored eight goals in his past 13 league games but, away from matchday, he has prepared meals at a local food bank and attended vaccination rollouts at Burton’s Pirelli Stadium. The club have made Hemmings aware of the support available to him from the club and the wider community should he feel he needs it. The club and the Burton Albion Community Trust are signed up to the mental health wellbeing charter. As a kid, Hemmings went to the half-term camps laid on by the Trust he has since helped at as a player. “If I left the club, I’d like people to think I was out in the community and tried to make some sort of difference. One thing that became evident when I spoke to Aileen was that I feel like I need community around me. Moving home to Burton has been a massive weight off my shoulders. I moved away from home when I was 16 to go to Rangers so I was not at home for the first 10 years of my career.” Billy Kee, Marvin Sordell and Kevin Ellison have spoken powerfully on depression and Hemmings knows his story will resonate with many. “If you speak to someone to get help … I can’t tell you how good it feels after,” he says. “It makes you feel unbelievable, once you delve into how you feel and openly speak to someone without feeling judgment. You walk out feeling like a totally different person. It feels like you are floating.” Book extract: Scared, by Kane Hemmings I LOVE “playing” football. Football is all I know and all I’ve ever really been “good” at. But the problem is I don’t “play” football, I’m in the industry that is football. Where is the enjoyment in sitting in the changing room before a game petrified as to what could happen in the next few hours? I don’t want to let myself down, my teammates, my family or friends that have come to watch all expecting me to do well. But I can't turn round to a teammate and say “I’m scared about going out here”. No, I sit there and do what everyone knows I’m good at, PRETENDING I'M NOT ARSED. And I almost convince myself I’m not. When I’m having a bad game people will say you just didn’t look interested. But deep down it's killing me inside, and I look like I’m not trying but I’m trying even harder. I feel physically embarrassed, because I know I’m better than most players at this level but for some reason I can't bring myself to be better than them, and its all in my own head because I know I’m petrified to let anyone down. I scored 26 goals in a season for Dundee and emotionally that was the worst season I had. I hated it. At the end of that season I broke down crying on the side of the M6 on my way home ... I was thinking 'wtf is wrong with me. I’ve just had the best season of my life and I hate it?' The problem for me is that with all the highs comes a horrible feeling of anxiety. I'm anxious of people’s expectations and then them I put on myself. People say when you score it gives you confidence and I understand what they’re saying, but the overwhelming emotion for me is anxiety. I just feel its even more pressure and I just don’t like it really but that’s just the territory I’m in I guess ... I think the biggest reason I get so scared at times is because football is all I’ve known for so long. I’ve seen so many people better than me fall away and not be able to play any more. It scares me to think everything that comes with “playing” football can be taken away from you at any time and that I could be left with nothing, especially now I have a son to take care of in the world as well. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org.
    4 points
  3. Morelos was brilliant tonight. Should have scored in first half but attitude throughout was excellent and, like you say, the guy remains an integral part of the way we (want to) play. That's why everyone else hates him.
    4 points
  4. I think that this is a game that can be enjoyed with less tension than league matches. I know that I won't be as nervous as on the last couple of Sundays or the coming one. What I really want is to win the league asap and anything else is a bonus, so I view tonight as an opportunity to get in some good practise against better than usual opposition with hopefully a win at the end of it.
    4 points
  5. Derek Rae is an excellent commentator, one of the best, if not the best, out there right now.
    3 points
  6. Worth noting that Morelos, after missing an early great chance, had a hand in all 4 goals. It is no coincidence that after 3 games of only scoring once he comes back into the team and we get 4 against a good opponent. Hope he can add goals too as we will be depending on him to score now that Roofe is out for another 6 weeks or so. So many talking points in this one, not going to be getting much sleep tonight!
    2 points
  7. He is saying nothing now. Carrying the Scottish standard in Europe, continually improving the Scottish coefficient single handedly, going ten games undefeated in Euro competition, ........ etc; forget it because as of 22.20hrs, BBC Radio Scotland's finished. Still, quite typically, Richard Gordon's closing line was, "that was Rangers thirteenth penalty of the season".
    2 points
  8. I don't know what to say I love this team they just seem to have the bollocks to keep it together and fight back yaaaaaaaaasssssss fuckin beauty.... I'm off for a beer and a lie down
    2 points
  9. Wow, what a ridiculous game of football and we deserved to win.
    2 points
  10. 2 points
  11. Don't talk to me about Scottish refs. - that's the most biased refereeing I've seen in a long time.
    2 points
  12. Surprised at Kent not being there and Arfield coming in (considering he's not played much football).
    2 points
  13. I've had a look. As things stand, to have any chance of being seeded in next season's UCL playoff we either need 3-4 upsets in Q3 (which won't happen) or we need 3 more wins in this season's competition and Red star to lose both their games to AC Milan and Young Boys to lose both their games to Leverkusen. If that happens we still won't be on course to be seeded, but we would only be relying on one upset in the previous round. In summary, we won't be seeded in next season's playoff
    2 points
  14. 15 points auld yin....you no had yer weetabix this morning? ?
    2 points
  15. Loved listening to David Francey commentate, he always seemed to add that bit of drama.
    2 points
  16. I will mate, thanks for the feedback. The draws are selling out incredibly quickly. Usually F_P have competitions once a week for each club but the Rangers stuff is showing amazing demand so even I can't keep up with their draws which are often selling out on the same day they're announced. Hope someone here wins soon!
    1 point
  17. To an extent... To be fair he does say the Morelos one was a soft foul but Morelos should have scored whilst the BBC commentary felt he made the most of it. As usual, he thinks the two claims we had for handball (one given, one not) weren't pens.
    1 point
  18. We were actually at our best in the first 15 mins of 2nd half ????
    1 point
  19. Wow what a relief. Huge result, great position to progress. 2 big coefficient points in the bag too.
    1 point
  20. Love Kamara’s confidence taking the ball to feet with a man on his back
    1 point
  21. Still feel we can take some thing from the game tonight. Even as it stands, I'd fancy us at Ibrox. Just need to keep composure and there will be more opportunities for us to score.
    1 point
  22. Comfortable enough for 40 mins then ref decides to take over, coupled with us totally switching off and defending like the bheasts. Roofe = Tierney, chocolate muscles. Another month out for him no doubt. Tav’s injury is hugely worrying, that might be his season over. I know the forward dives but wtf is Davis doing sticking his foot in there, really unlike him. We’ve got it all to do in the second half to keep our unbeaten run going and give us a decent result to bring home for next week.
    1 point
  23. That was 4 mins, plus 30 secs max for the Roofe - Kent change. The penalty was given in the 7th minute, and the Bulgarian wasted no time to point at the spot.
    1 point
  24. Not 6mins worth though, nowhere near it. Their keeper was even wasting time at a goal kick in the final minute.
    1 point
  25. Farcical refereeing. Clear handball not given. Roofe fouled and then it went "homeward". The "penalty" was just the icing on the cake.
    1 point
  26. These decisions are ruining football. Handed a goal for absolutely nothing. Cheat.
    1 point
  27. Absolutely throwing himself to the ground for the tiniest touch. Disgraceful.
    1 point
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  29. 1 point
  30. I didn’t get that from it. I think it’s just that they aren’t players you want to gamble with when we have able replacements.
    1 point
  31. Probably has more to do with the BBC being incompetent tossers, I'd imagine. Mon The Rangers! ??
    1 point
  32. The Blarney Lament. Ra Brave Bhoys had just thrashed Aberdeen 1-0 and misty eyed Pat began the Blarney Lament. Surely, Steve Clarke will be interested in David Turnbull. "he's the first name on Neil Lennon's team sheet"? Last night's result had put Pat in a maudlin mood, he eulogised Sellik's February form, five wins in a row and wondered aloud, "why couldn't Neil get this reaction last month"?. Pat explained ra Sellik had dropped nine points in January and introduced ifs, buts, and maybes. If ra Sellik had only dropped three points, but circumstances like Dubai, and maybe pressure could have been put on Rangers. Uninterrupted and unchallenged, Pat concluded, "we know Rangers react badly to the pressure of a challenge, I mean there are still two remaining games against Rangers and if only, well it's a pity Celtic could not find this form earlier". Oh Pat, you're just saying what the Gang Hut are thinking. Sincerely, I hope the hope does not kill you. Herculean Effort? It began on Sunday evening, Rangers issued a Tweet stating awareness of a party involving players and fixed penalties. It ended promising an internal investigation. By Monday morning, BBC Scotland had the party as both their lead news and sports story. Further, the party featured as a news story on the BBC UK news and led the BBC UK sports. Similarly, BBC websites and CeeFax prominently reported the party. I do not know the machinations, but I suspect BBC has a bidding system ie one of the regions pitches a story and extrapolates on the probabilities of the story rapidly expanding to having national consequences. A Senior Editor at PQ went out on a limb to guarantee such UK coverage. By early Monday afternoon, BBC Scotland's Sports Correspondent, Chris McLaughlin was ready to add much needed momentum to the story. He told the Midday News Bulletin, previous transgressions by footballers during lockdown had seen the First Minister issue a yellow card, could a red card be forthcoming? Chris attended the FM's daily Covid briefing and asked the second question. Nicola's dozen second answer was a couple of lines about elite athletes and footballers, delivered by disdainful wave of a hand. All momentum had evaporated. Again, I do not know the machinations, but I suspect David Graham played the game extremely well. The Tweet seized the narrative, then the paucity of information only allowed speculation. We did not know all the names involved until Gerrard's Presser. PQ's Herculean efforts to bump Rangers into a statement failed and I suspect, has queered their relationship somewhat with Salford? Promising something they could not deliver. Out with PQ, hand picked usual suspects willingly lent their shoulders to the wheel. There were Monday morning articles/columns from Ewing Grahame, Alison McConnell, and Catriona Stewart(Gregor Cox). They all speculated(expected) the FM to shut down Scottish football because of Rangers players' actions. Dubai hardly merited a mention. They were sold the pup of false hope and it will be a little harder to convince their Editors of the newsworthyness of the next Rangers Bad story. Such effort should be recognised and acknowledged. We should remember Hercules expired because of acquired poison from Hydra's blood. The Gang Hut's poison pens will write their own demise. The Labours of Hercules. I am sure more than a few Gersnetters had to endure what used to be called, 'a classical education'? I cannot remember 99% of my school timetables, but I do still have the occasional nightmare over my third year, Every Monday morning began with triple Latin. It ruined my football playing weekends. These last several years I feel cheated by BBC Scotland, but also with my education. I was taught their were 12 Labours of Hercules, however it has become apparent that the Greek God(let's call him Chris) had a thirteenth. As well as slaying bulls, boars, lions, hydras, ....... etc, Chris scrupulously adheres to, 'putting the continuous boot into the H-u-ns'. It has been over five years since Chris attended Ibrox or Auchenhowie. In a show of solidarity, no BBC Scotland Journo attends Rangers Pressers. Providing information to Rangers supporters is not even an after thought. Our contract is with PQ, we pay our License Fee, they provide us with a service. Why are BBC Scotland Journos attending Royal Antwerp's Pressers? Not one of them has met and questioned Steven Gerrard, but they hang on every word uttered by Franky Vercauteren. I am sure this was just a bit of foresight in possibly exploiting the party story? I will need to recheck Hercules, what happened when his bird spent a month on the island of Lesbos? Did it end well Chris?
    1 point
  33. I hope you are getting a cut from these sales Frankie as it is costing me a fortune !
    1 point
  34. I know what you’re saying, but for the club there is probably more riding on this fixture than it seems there is. Progression in the EL this season could make the difference in being seeded in the UCL playoff next season. I think it unlikely but I’m sure there was a possibility that it could come down to whether we can get some more points on the board this season. Being seeded would up our chances of group stage qualification massively.
    1 point
  35. Back in the sixties after one game at Parkhead Thompson was leaving when Stein pulled him into a wee quiet room and gave him an almighty dressing down his next commentary it was all buzz bomb to jinky to wispy Stein put the fear of God up him
    1 point
  36. Glad I didnt do a prediction last night, Id have had both wrong. I thought Juve would have got a result in Porto and with Dortmund poor domestic form I thought Sevilla would have won that.
    1 point
  37. Preview from @Fat Eck I didn’t ask him if their 1998 to 2013 player loan agreement with Manchester United, which saw the likes of Jonny Evans, John O’Shea and even one Phil Bardsley gain first team experience at the start of their careers, was part of the reason Antwerp had spent so most of the last two decades in the Belgian second tier. I didn’t even ask him if their pitch was in the kind of nick that would let our ball-on-the-deck pass-masters turn in the kind of dominantly smooth performances we specialised in before winter hit Scotland’s pitches. No. What I really wanted to know was if Tribune 2 was still there. Michiel said it was. And so, tonight, with Rob McLean and Stephen Craigan every bit as horrendous on the mic as Crocker and Walker, there will be one lovely sight for sore ears: we’ll see Rangers playing in front of a massive covered enclosure of whitewashed wooden benches made only half as famous as it should be by the thousands of waterproof garment-wearing British stadium lovers who’ve got themselves over to Belgium’s second city for so many pre-Covid years to photograph those benches from every angle before sitting on them for a game and Instagramming themselves holding up some genuinely Belgian draught beer in a plastic half-litre cup stamped with the crest which incorporates the number 1 underneath even more proudly than we wear the five stars above ours. Royal Antwerp aren’t one of Belgium’s top three clubs, all of whom Rangers have now eliminated from Europe at one time or December. They aren’t, strictly speaking, even the most successful team in Antwerp (that’s hated local rivals Beerschot). But Royal Antwerp are, like their stadium, an institution enjoying a steady but relentless renaissance. The big number One will be everywhere in tonight’s BT Sports graphics. In Belgium, the land of the merciless merger, the venal renaming and the casual bankruptcy, proving a club’s lineage is even more important than it is to Celtic fans. A unique matriculation number has been issued to each club by the Belgian FA from the moment that club was formed and applied to be registered. Royal Antwerp are known as “The Great Old” because they’re even older than the Belgian FA. Formed in 1880, they’re the oldest club in Belgium and their matricule number almost makes up for the fact the last of their four Belgian league titles was won in the 1950s. They’re known literally as The Big Old, despite hailing from the Flemish-speaking world, because they were formed, like the sport of football itself in Belgium, by Englishmen. Antwerp disrespected their roots earlier this season by defeating Spurs in front of an empty, gleaming Tribune 2. This came in the second game of a group stage for which they qualified directly by reaching the Belgian Cup final against last season’s domestic league champions, Club Brugge. Like Rangers, Antwerp won four group matches but, unlike our table-topping, 14-point selves, they lost the other two games; at home to LASK of Austria and, costing them top place, the Match Day 6 return with Tottenham. Also unlike ourselves, they’ve lost the manager who guided them through that group. Croat Ivan Leko headed for the riches of the Chinese Super League at the start of January. His replacement, Belgian legend, Franky Vercauteren, won more European Cup-Winners’ Cups and UEFA Cups as an Anderlecht player than Rangers have as a club. As manager he’s won almost as many Belgian Pro League titles – one with Genk, two with Anderlecht - as Franky Vercauteren did as a player (four). Tribune 2 isn’t so much a more continental version of the old Ibrox Centenary Stand – because the Bosuilstadion was famously Glaswegian in its original, elliptical, three-huge-terraces-and-a main-stand design - as a more striking version. Tribune 2, in this form, won’t ever again hold spectators. It’s part of a building site now. Temporary floodlights are situated between it and the pitch. The wooden-benched, whitewashed Tribune 2 is the last original part of a ground built in 1923, its capacity expanded over the years to 60,000 even though its biggest ever attendance remains 55,000 (witnessing two Gerd Mueller goals help West Germany to victory over the host nation in the Euro 72 semi-final). Like Ibrox, Bosuil has hosted precisely one European club final and that was, like Ibrox, one game in a European Cup-Winners’ Cup final that required two (us the 1961 first leg, them the 1964 replay). Like Ibrox, it has witnessed Real Madrid winning by a single goal in the early rounds of the European Cup to go with a 6-0 thrashing in the Bernabéu. A far worse coincidence, Bosuil has also hosted Kilmarnock – for Antwerp this unfortunately came during the Ayrshire side’s greatest European run, to the 1966-67 Fairs Cup semis. RAFC were dispatched 8-2 on aggregate. The stadium we grace tonight, the host of so many international clashes between Belgium’s “Red Devils” and the old enemy, the Netherlands, had run into serious disrepair by the 1980s. Brussels was now the preferred host city for the national side. But by the end of that decade Royal Antwerp had gone beyond the first two rounds of Europe for the first time in their history and they did it thanks to a 4-0 Bosuil bashing of another orange-ish visitor. Jim McLean’s Dundee United were hammered 6-3 on aggregate in the UEFA Cup. Despite losing out in the quarter-finals to Cologne that time, in 1992-93 Royal Antwerp’s greatest European season saw them reach the European Cup-Winners’ Cup final. They were unlucky to meet Nevio Scala’s brilliant Parma but that 3-1 loss at old Wembley was the last European final contested by a Belgian side. Eight clubs have won more Belgian titles than Antwerp but only four others have contested a continental showpiece. The next two seasons brought just three European ties in total. Relegation followed in 1997-98 and, other than a brief hiatus from 2001 to 2004, it was second tier football until Wim De Decker won promotion in 2016-17… and was that summer promptly demoted to assistant manager. His new boss, Romanian László Bölöni (1986 European Cup-winning midfielder with Steaua Bucharest) was part of the on-field rebuild begun the same year as the stadium rebuild. As three sides of the ground were gradually reconstructed, Antwerp finished eighth in 2018-19 then fourth in the next two seasons. As well as a brief but historic return to Europe last term, before leaving in May 2020, Bölöni guided Antwerp to the Belgian Cup final. Delayed because of Covid, it was won in August with a goal from the man we have to watch closest tonight, Lior Refaelov. Antwerp was the third club for which Israeli international Refaelov had scored in the Belgian cup final. The 34-year-old, who banged in five for Club Brugge on their way to the 2014-15 quarter-finals of the Europa League, is listed as a midfielder. However, with three goals in this season’s group stage – including that winner versus Spurs – his wand of a right foot is to be feared. Fellow “midfielder”, No.16, Pieter Gerkins, scored with his head in the away wins in Linz and Ludogorets (by the way, tonight’s ref is Bulgarian so here’s hoping he’s from Razgrad). Brugge are almost as clear of Antwerp in the Jupiler Pro League First Division A as we are of “Furritsa Grand Old” in Scotland’s sponsor-free top flight. But, having finished no higher than third since 1975, and missing their captain and a few others tonight, I hope Antwerp are more worried about securing second at home than progressing much further abroad. Domestic hotshot Didier Lamkel Zé, suspended for this leg, was so desperate to leave in January he turned up to training in an Anderlecht top. While that’s a bit like Alfie waltzing into Auchenhowie in the hoops, Lamkel Zé may have been persuaded to stay by the rebuild happening around him. Tribune 1, the main stand, has been completely rebuilt. If our players are filmed in the tunnel tonight, behind them you’ll see a bar called Diamonds. This isn’t an arch reference to late 80s/early 90s wine bar nomenclature, and has nothing to do with Broomfield, the Shyberry Excelsior or Neil Lennon’s dazzling formation which absolutely, no question, morally deserved to win at Ibrox last month. It’s a reference to the nearby Square Mile, the oldest diamond district in any city in the world. This is a port city, a trading city, an ancient patron of the arts with a population only slightly smaller than Glasgow. Football in Belgium was born in the Antwerp province of Flanders. Royal Antwerp present a logical next stop for Rangers in a season which has seen us visit the most famous representative of French-speaking Wallonia, Standard Liege and, in the qualifying rounds, travel to Tilburg. There we hammered Willem II, so named because of the Dutch king who, as a prince of Orange, garrisoned himself in Tilburg to quell the nearby 1830 uprising which, because he wasn’t successful, became the creation of Belgium itself. We have Roofe and Morelos back. But surely the biggest confidence boost in this Belgian Odyssey of a season, is Club Brugge are in the Europa League now. Surely that means one more round at least. Royal Antwerp can come back to us when they’ve finished polishing their rough jewel of a ground.
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