Rangers' Heads Still Above Water Despite Downpour at Tannadice
The Herald › November 02, 2009
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AFTER a week of doom-laden headlines, Rangers could not survive the gloom of a torrential Sunday afternoon in Dundee. Mike Tumilty, the referee, abandoned an unfeasibly entertaining farce at Tannadice during the half-time interval, by which point the visitors had engineered a now obsolete 1-0 advantage and the surface began to resemble a duck pond.
Tumilty did so on the grounds of player safety and, perhaps, intolerable cruelty. His decision, after a wade around the pitch, was met with widespread disapproval of the hardy supporters but the match official had the unanimous support of both Walter Smith and Ally McCoist.See the full content of this document
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Rangers' Heads Still Above Water Despite Downpour at Tannadice
"I was concerned with player safety and the possibility of a farcical goal, " Tumilty explained. "I did not want either so had to be proactive regardless of the score.
"The rain got a lot heavier during the...See the full content of this document
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