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For a moment, it seemed that the aborted Super League had the potential to spark a surge in anti-Americanism in Britain not seen since the political heyday of George W Bush.
You didn t have to be American to be mad keen on the Super League. Florentino Perez was, and remains, the most vocal evangelist for the project, delivering nightly soliloquies on the matter on Spanish TV.
By all accounts, Real Madrid do not need to establish their own MUTV station as the traditional broadcasters in the Spanish capital are more than happy to do the same job for them. As of Sunday, the Real Madrid President is still in Hiroo Onoda mode, citing ironclad legal documents which supposedly chain the jittery English clubs to the project.
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John Gunn who lifts the lid on football politics around Tannadice in his new book,
Tales from the Touchline.
He was described by former Aberdeen and Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson as the toughest opponent he ever faced in the opposite dugout and “one of the greatest coaches to come out of Scotland”.
But was former Dundee United manager Jim McLean who shook up Scottish football along with Ferguson in the 1980s, and who died recently aged 83, really the best manager ever to serve at Tannadice?
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To celebrate Christmas, Elgin City F.C. is giving away a fantastic range of prizes! Find out more and enter the prize draw below.
One of the top prizes up for grabs is the Speyside 21 years old Elgin City vs. Rangers bottle of whisky.
The 21 year old malt is being offered by Elgin based, family-run malt whisky specialist Gordon & MacPhail.
It commemorates the first visit by Rangers Football Club to Borough Briggs for a Scottish Football League fixture on 25 November 2012.