Summary
WHERE Walter Smith has been involved as a manager in knife-edge denouements to Scottish league campaigns, his fortunes have been somewhat mixed.
In May 1998, a victory for his side over Dundee United was insufficient to stop Celtic from thwarting Rangers' ten-in-a-row title ambitions with a win over St Johnstone in their own last game. The Ibrox side clinched the SPL trophy under Smith's stewardship by winning at Tannadice on the last day in 2009, but the year previous to that, as Gordon Strachan's Celtic were busy sealing three-in-a- row at the same venue, Rangers were put to the sword at Aberdeen.See the full content of this document
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Flashback: 1991 . . . ; Walters Booth
Those with longer memories will recall, however, that Smith cut his teeth in the world of final-day dramatics long before any of those dates. He had, in fact, been ensconced as manager of Rangers a mere matter of weeks when a 3-0 defeat to Motherwell in his side's penultimate league match set up ...
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