ER, IT'S NOT EVEN A BIG GAME FOR US

The inevitable Press bullsh*t’s started already. Is it not time someone told Rangers that their pathetic club and irrelevant little league mean nothing to us.

Rangers chairman John McClelland:

“I know that the Celtic game with Liverpool last season was built up as the biggest club game in Scotland for 30 years.

"But in terms of interest and emotion this will surpass that. You can't have a bigger game than the champions of England against the champions of Scotland [shyeah right!]. It's a two-game play-off for the unofficial British title [arsed].

"United are the favourites and we would settle for coming second in the group - but only after we've beaten Manchester United.

"It will be a great contest. Yesterday we didn't know whether we would be in the Champions League, today we are and we've got United."

Fergie, despite having described Rangers’ support as strictly small time and vowing never to take United to Ibrox again after our visit in August ’94, was polite for the media:

"It's a great draw to get Rangers. I was half expecting to get a Scottish team.

"Alex McLeish is an old player of mine and has done a great job at Rangers. They should be fantastic matches.

"We have been to Panathinaikos before, and we were lucky in March 2001 when we got a 1-1 draw and could have been slaughtered.

"We've not come up against Stuttgart before, but we have experience of German football having played Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich before."

Peter Kenyon shows how out of touch he is:

"There is no such thing as a small game in the Champions League but Rangers is the big one and it's excited everyone at United, and the fans.”