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26/4/08
Hearts no match for unbeaten Gers

Rangers, yet to lose in the league, needed a penalty to beat Hearts but in truth Hearts didnt trouble them at all. Alexander Farnerud netted a cool penalty just one minute before the break to give Rangers all 3pts.

Hearts 0-1 Rangers - Tynecastle

Goals - Farnerud(pen)
Injuries
MoM - Morten Gamst Pedersen(8) - Rangers

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30/4/08
Celtic fight back to finally beat the Gers

After 11 games unbeaten against Celtic and 46 unbeaten league games Rangers were finally beaten by a Paul Caddis goal in the 92nd minute. Rangers were 2-0 ahead after 30mins but manager Andrew McKissock was full of praise for Celtic as Rangers lost, he said that he went for broke when Celtic leveled at 2-2 and Celtic played well defending and managing to get the 3rd goal, showing great character to come back from 2-0 down when they could so easily have crumbled like previous games.

Rangers 2-3 Celtic - Ibrox

Goals - Prso(2)
Injuries
MoM - Didier Agathe(9) - Celtic

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Final League Results

Motherwell 0-1 Rangers

Rangers 3-2 Falkirk
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UEFA Cup result

Arsenal 2-0 Hertha Berlin
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Scottish players awards

SPL Player of the year
1st Morten Gamst Pedersen - Rangers
2nd Steven Smith - Rangers
3rd Darius Vassel - Celtic

Young player of the year
1st Steven Fletcher - Dunfermline
2nd Leon Best - Aberdeen
3rd Jan Vertonghen - Hearts

Football writers player of the year
1st Andy Webster - Rangers
2nd Ramon Periera - Livingston
3rd David Healy - Motherwell

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10/5/08
Rangers battle through extra time to earn second trophey

Rangers eventually beat Kilmarnock as the two teams played out a thrilling final, producing 9 goals. Morten Gamst Pedersen was immense through out producing a Man of the Match performance where he scored a goal and set up 3.
Kilmarnock ended the game with nine men but the damage had been done in the first half of extra time.

Kilmarnock 3-6 Rangers - Hampden

Goals - Oskitz(2), Prso(2), Pedersen, Sivok
Injuries - Alexander Farnerud - Rangers
MoM - Morten Gamst Pedersen(10) - Rangers

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14/5/08
McKissock does it again

Rangers have come along way in three years since the days of the overpaid under-achievers of the Alex McLeish reign. Since then they have won 9 tropheys and have participated in a Euro Super Cup final. They have attracted players to the club such as Adrian Mutu and Valeri Bojinov and these players have inspired them to a Champions League victory. Despite the set back of an Olof Mellberg own goal Rangers managed to turn it around with two goals in the five minutes following the own goal. Dado Prso, who else?, scored the equaliser and midfield Starlet Freddy Guarin got the winner in the 32nd minute. If it wasnt for both goalkeepers, especially Buffon, the score could have been a lot higher.

Juventus 1-2 Rangers - Olimpico

Goals - Prso, Guarin
Injuries - Barry Ferguson, Cicero - Rangers
MoM - Billy Jones(9) - Rangers

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Manager McKissock finally puts speculation to an end

Rangers manager Andrew McKissock signed a 4 year deal at Ibrox stadium ruling out any chance of a move to another club. The Rangers fans new hero who has won them 9 tropheys in 3 seasons had rejected a previous deal from Rangers but was ready to sign this time, the new contract more than doubles his wages from 15k to 35k p/w. Rangers have announced a big transfer budget of 17m and a wage budget of 625k.
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Champions League awards

Best Player
Valeri Bojinov - Rangers
Adrian Mutu - Rangers
Freddy Guarin - Rangers

Top Goalscorer
Zlatan Ibrahimovic - 9 - Juve
Valeri Bojinov - 9 - Rangers
Robinho - 7 - Real Madrid

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I am going to try a different method of writing this out to try and get through seasons quicker and make it more exiciting in some way, as it cant be the most exciting thing to read match report after match report especially when there are so many wins.

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July 08

An very active month for Rangers in the transfer market saw them sell 5 players of their champions league winning squad. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Alexander Farnerud, Barry Ferguson , Thomas Sivok and Thomas Buffel all moving to Spain and proving that despite the now "worldwide" brand name of Rangers the SPL is still not quite up to the standards of top world football. However some players seem to jump at the chance to join Rangers with able replacements signing up, Mark Noble(20 years old 3 caps for England, Sergio Ramos(22 year old 3 caps for Spain), Chris Brown(England u21 internationalist, 3 caps 1 goal) and Deigo Menendez who was on loan at Juventus last season.

The season kicked off in the best way possible for Rangers, Dado Prso scored a hat-trick and got Man of the Match as Jason Crooks scored his first league goal for the club in the 4-1 drubbing of Aberdeen

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August 08

A poor month by Rangers standards, they failed to use the Aberdeen match as a platform, losing 2-1 to Motherwell and coming from behind to draw 2-2 with Hearts. An Adrian Mutu inspired performance against Dundee Utd got Rangers back on track winning 4-2 at Tannidice. Then came the Super Cup which was lost for the second year in a row. 4-3 the score against Arsenal. 4 days later it was back to Ibrox to face Falkirk a comfortable 3-1 win with Mark Noble putting in a good shift. Rangers are second in the league 3 points behind rivals Celtic.

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Transfers

Budget - 17m

In
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Deigo Menendez - Free - Central
Dorian Dervite - Free - Lille
Alessio Cerci - Free - Roma
Mark Noble - 6m - West Ham
Atila - 425k - Corinthians
Sergio Ramos - 5m - Real Madrid
Chris Brown - 2.6m - Charlton
Jorge Sanz - Free
Alexandre - 2m - Internacional
Daniel Agger - 10m - Betis

Out
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Fernando Ricksen - 1.3m - Ajax
Julien Rodriguez - 925k - Southampton
Gary MacKenzie - 30k - Motherwell
Jordan MacMillan - Free - Hibs
Ross Harvey - Free - Clyde
Thomas Buffel - 5.75m - At. Madrid
Barry Ferguson - 10m - Valencia
Alexander Farnerud - 7m - Sevilla
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar - 9m - Sevilla
Thomas Sivok - 3m - Barcelona
Olof Mellberg - 1.3m - Werder Bremen

Loans In
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Loans Out
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Chris Brown - Birmingham
Alessio Cerci - Southampton
Brian Gilmour - Man City
Steven Lennon - Nottm Forrest
Derek Carcary - Hearts
Lee Robinson - Dundee
Dany N'Guessan - Falkirk
Steven Campbell - Motherwell
Emilio Viviano - 45k - Dundee