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A REVIEW OF RANGERS' PRE SEASON GAMES IN SWITZERLAND AND WEST GERMANY
Rangers left for the pre-season
tour of Switzerland and Germany on
Tuesday 14 July.
And even as the squad was jetting
out of Glasgow Airport, Manager
Graeme Souness was involved in
more transfer business.
We signed Mark Falco from Wat
ford and after his wedding to Barbara
the following Saturday, he went out to
the team's headquarters in Solothurn
to join the lads.
Mark is a welcome addition to the
pool and we would like to take this
opportunity to wish him well at Ibrox.
His arrival in Switzerland took the
party up to 23 in number.
Graeme Souness led the way with
assistant Walter Smith, trainer Phil
Boersma, doctor Donald Cruick-
shank and kit man George Soutar
alongside him.
The playing staff was: Chris
Woods, Nicky Walker, Jimmy
Nicholl, Stuart Munro, Jimmy
Phillips, Graham Roberts, Terry But
cher, Graeme Souness, John
McGregor, Avi Cohen, Davie
Kirkwood, Derek Ferguson, Ian Dur-
rant, Robert Fleck, Davie Cooper, Al
ly McCoist, Scott Nisbet, Neil Woods
and latterly, Falco.
The action began against the local
Solothurn team the day after the
squad checked in.
We had a comfortable 4-1 win and
were never seriously in trouble
against the Swiss Second Division
Team.
Ally McCoist opened the scoring
after 20 minutes, but Solothurn
equalised through Rolf Zahnd six
minutes later.
Graham Roberts then powered
home a header with Neil Woods ad
ding the third and Ian Durrant
finishing it off.
The Manager kept the same side
throughout and this was the line-up:
C. Woods, Nicholl, Phillips, Roberts,
McGregor, Souness, Ferguson, N.
Woods, McCoist, Durrant, Cooper.
Solothurn: Siegenthaler, M. Schmied,
Blasi, Moranduzzo, B. Schmied, Bing-
geli, Sterki, Larghader, Zahnd, Vet
ter, Grossen.
Referee was Mr Serge Muhmenthaler
from Grenchen and the attendance
was 800.
But after that opening match there
was not time to relax and it was
straight into the second.
That was against a Delemont Select
which included players from other
time with the last of his three coming
from the penalty spot.
For the second half, substitute Ally
McCoist scored twice to complete
the convincing win.
These were the teams:
Delemont Select: Schmidlin (Dele
mont), Jubin (Delemont), Lovis
(Moutier), Leuthard (Laufon),
Chavaillaz (Delemont), Froidevaux
(Delemont), Chapuis (Delemont),
Blanchard (Grandfontaine), Cueni
(Laufon), Lang (Moutier), Tauriello
(Bassecourt). Substitutes: Rumann for
Blanchard, Tieche for Schmidlin,
Dubois for Jubin and Bron for
Froidevaux.
Rangers: Walker, McGregor, Munro,
Roberts, Phillips, Butcher, Ferguson,
Fleck, Durrant, Nisbet. Substitutes,
McCoist for Nisbet, Nicholl for
Zurich keeper, Tornare, makes a
brave save from Terry Butcher's
challenge.
teams in the region of Jura.
There was one novel touch before
the match when parachutists ap
peared from above with the match
ball.
But then it was down to business
and we won easily, 6-0.
Robert Fleck started the spree,
John McGregor added a second
from a free kick then the wee striker
completed his hat-trick before half-
Ferquson, Souness for Phillips and
Phillips for McGregor.
The referee was Mr Bruno Kloetzli
from Malleray and the crowd was
2,000.
There was a bit of respite after that,
although the Manager kept the lads
busy training.
The third match was against FC
Zurich at the Letzigrund Stadium
where, unfortunately, we went down
5-0 in front of 1,200 spectators.
The teams were:
Zurich: 1-Tomare, 5-Landolet,
6-Berger, 8-Andracchio, 9-Romano,
10-Voege, 11-Kundert, 12-Bickel,
15-Rufer, 18-Studer, 19-Haechler.
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Training at Solothurn are Butcher, Roberts and Cohen.
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